How the hell did director Lamberto Bava go from the more than reasonable A Blade In The Dark and the silly but extremely fun Demons, to utter garbage like made-for-TV movie Graveyard Disturbance? I know Demons was short on logic at times (I always laugh at the helicopter crashing through the roof of the cinema and the display that features a real sword), but this one makes no sense whatsoever, which might be okay if it wasn't so dull.
The film starts as a group of young shoplifters flee the scene of their crime in the most conspicuous vehicle imaginable, a van covered in garish airbrushed paintings. Unsurprisingly, the police are soon onto them, forcing the robbers to take a backroad where they eventually become stuck in a stream. Continuing on foot, they arrive at a strange tavern where the owner, who has one eye that lights up red like the Terminator, tells the group that if they spend one night in the catacombs below, they will be entitled to a vast treasure.
The rest of the film sees the gang wandering through cobweb strewn tunnels, encountering crap zombies and monsters (one of which wears a KISS T-shirt), while trying to find the way out. Several failed attempts at escaping the tunnels leaves the youngsters despondent and the viewer struggling to stay awake. One character posits the theory that they are all dead, which wouldn't exactly be the most original explanation but would at least have made sense, the catacombs being purgatory for the thieves. But rather than have his film adhere to any form of logic, Bava ends matters with the gang being released from the catacombs only for them to be arrested by the police as they leave.
There's no viable reason given for their strange experiences, making the whole film a total waste of time, and a rather boring one at that.
The film starts as a group of young shoplifters flee the scene of their crime in the most conspicuous vehicle imaginable, a van covered in garish airbrushed paintings. Unsurprisingly, the police are soon onto them, forcing the robbers to take a backroad where they eventually become stuck in a stream. Continuing on foot, they arrive at a strange tavern where the owner, who has one eye that lights up red like the Terminator, tells the group that if they spend one night in the catacombs below, they will be entitled to a vast treasure.
The rest of the film sees the gang wandering through cobweb strewn tunnels, encountering crap zombies and monsters (one of which wears a KISS T-shirt), while trying to find the way out. Several failed attempts at escaping the tunnels leaves the youngsters despondent and the viewer struggling to stay awake. One character posits the theory that they are all dead, which wouldn't exactly be the most original explanation but would at least have made sense, the catacombs being purgatory for the thieves. But rather than have his film adhere to any form of logic, Bava ends matters with the gang being released from the catacombs only for them to be arrested by the police as they leave.
There's no viable reason given for their strange experiences, making the whole film a total waste of time, and a rather boring one at that.