1985
Jack Bender
Jack Bender
A group of high school kids (including LeVar Burton and
Shari Belafonte) “borrow” some things from a witchcraft museum to use for Halloween
costumes and accidentally unleash a cemetery full of zombies, werewolves and
vampires onto their town.
This was a made-for-TV movie, so don't go in expecting a lot of
gore or violence (although there is a little blood and the vampires and
werewolves don’t mess around when they attack someone.) It is however stepped
in a fun Halloween atmosphere cut with just the right amount of 80’s
cheese. The monster make-up is fun, with
the zombies obviously taking some notes from ‘Thriller’. The limits of television
resulted in some interesting choices, a vampire attack that uses bursting wine
bottles in lieu of gallons of blood for instance. The tone of the whole thing starts out pretty
light, but things get darker and darker as Phil (Lee Montgomery) and his
girlfriend from beyond the grave, Sandy (Jonna Lee) race to stop the curse as
each of their friends end up falling to the monsters. There is also an out of nowhere musical
number in the middle of the movie, but it was the 80’s and that kind of thing
happened once and a while.
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