A trio of young boys love comic books, but their reading is interrupted when a gang moves into the neighborhood. Showing no mercy, the gang slaughters the boys. Lucky for them, the comic book dealer is a former shaman from Haiti and can resurrect the dead...
What brought this film to my attention was the fact it's directed by Richard Elfman, the creator of "Forbidden Zone" and brother to the notorious Danny Elfman. If he could replicate the sheer awesomeness of "Forbidden Zone", it was to be a film worth owning. To cut a long story short, he did not match that film's intensity.
While the film is fun in a low-budget, cult horror sort of way, and has some very pedophilic romance elements I found entrancing, if a bit disturbing, it doesn't have much to offer. Cheesy floating heads. If you like this, that's your bag, not mine. It's nice to see Charles Band endorses a film that doesn't have dolls... just shrunken heads. That's a big departure for him. (But if you see his newer films, such as "Dangerous Worry Dolls", you see he hasn't strayed too far from the well.) If you want to get drunk and see a bad movie, this is a good one. If you think it's a lost classic, you're wrong. I'm sorry, I respect your opinion, but no. This one is clearly a few notches below "awesome".
What brought this film to my attention was the fact it's directed by Richard Elfman, the creator of "Forbidden Zone" and brother to the notorious Danny Elfman. If he could replicate the sheer awesomeness of "Forbidden Zone", it was to be a film worth owning. To cut a long story short, he did not match that film's intensity.
While the film is fun in a low-budget, cult horror sort of way, and has some very pedophilic romance elements I found entrancing, if a bit disturbing, it doesn't have much to offer. Cheesy floating heads. If you like this, that's your bag, not mine. It's nice to see Charles Band endorses a film that doesn't have dolls... just shrunken heads. That's a big departure for him. (But if you see his newer films, such as "Dangerous Worry Dolls", you see he hasn't strayed too far from the well.) If you want to get drunk and see a bad movie, this is a good one. If you think it's a lost classic, you're wrong. I'm sorry, I respect your opinion, but no. This one is clearly a few notches below "awesome".