While the movie was announced as being in the vein of Sam Raimi’s early horror movies, it actually seems to owe equally as much to Dan O’Bannon’s terrible and enjoyable Return of the Living Dead franchise. There are also some nods to 1987′s “The Gate” and several other such genre classics. The resulting romp is silly nerd trash, with carefree abandon and gleeful gore. The jokes range from funny to near-hilarious and the references (Gwar! Cannibal Corpse!) feel perfect for a supernatural splatter film about the delightful linkages between hardcore punk and hardcore movie making. It’s a fun movie that spends its budget well. Grade: A.

—Midtown Montgomery Living (in a review of the recent Montgomery Film Festival in Alabama). The writer was pretty damn brutal to most of the films, so it was nice to read a positive one.

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