How cool does this sound?... While on tactical manoeuvres, an army division (led by Lt. Uhura and including Geordi La Forge) is attacked by the reanimated corpses of civil war Confederate soldiers who, in 1865, were forced to walk across a minefield by a cruel Yankee officer.
Incredibly, director Armand Mastroianni takes this blinder of a premise - Southern Comfort meets Night of the Living Dead meets 2000 Maniacs- and makes one hell of a dull horror out of it. Too much of the film focuses on the soldiers as they trek through the woods and set up camp, and when the zombies eventually make an appearance there is a distinct lack of juicy gore, Mastroianni clearly aiming for eeriness and atmosphere, back-lighting his zombies and shrouding them in fog. Unfortunately, all he really achieves is boredom.
The really silly ending sees Private Ray Ellis (Maxwell Caulfield) convincing Jeremy, the only survivor of the minefield massacre and now a very old man, to end the horror by sending his vengeful mother, an immortal witch, to the afterlife. It makes about as much sense as it sounds.
Incredibly, director Armand Mastroianni takes this blinder of a premise - Southern Comfort meets Night of the Living Dead meets 2000 Maniacs- and makes one hell of a dull horror out of it. Too much of the film focuses on the soldiers as they trek through the woods and set up camp, and when the zombies eventually make an appearance there is a distinct lack of juicy gore, Mastroianni clearly aiming for eeriness and atmosphere, back-lighting his zombies and shrouding them in fog. Unfortunately, all he really achieves is boredom.
The really silly ending sees Private Ray Ellis (Maxwell Caulfield) convincing Jeremy, the only survivor of the minefield massacre and now a very old man, to end the horror by sending his vengeful mother, an immortal witch, to the afterlife. It makes about as much sense as it sounds.