Dance Of The Dead - Horror Spot Movie Review

Dance Of The Dead - Horror Spot Movie Review

By Jose

Plot:

On the night of the big High-School Prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn't get dates to the dance.

Cast:

Jared Kusnitz (Jimmy Dunn), Greyson Chadwick (Lindsey), Chandler Darby (Steven), Carissa Capacitance (Gwen), Randy McDowell (Jules Reiner), Michael V. Mammoliti (George), Mark Lynch (Rob), Justin Wellborn (Kyle Grubbin), Mark Oliver (Coach Keel), Blair Redford (Nash Rambler), Lucas Till (Jensen), Hunter Pierce (Dave The Drummer)

Review:

Let me start out by saying how much fun I had watching Dance of The Dead. I love horror comedies when done well. Giving a perfect blend of laughs and scares, or gore in this case. I feel like the movie was a American/teen/high school version of Shaun of The Dead. The cast was good, the story wasn’t complicated, the comedy was decent, and the zombies were zombies.



Dance of The Dead is just a straight forward zombie movie set in a small town. Right at the beginning you know something is afoot or should I say “ahand”. The gravedigger is attacked in broad daylight. He cuts the hand off and the hand tries to run off he picks it up and tosses it into a wheel barrel that already has other hands and a head in it. We are introduced to the staring cast of teens. Ranging from the cheerleaders, the nerds, the popular kids, the trouble makers, and the outcasts. Soon after a trip to the graveyard the night of the prom a group of the nerds find themselves at the start of the zombie invasion. Plenty of kills and chases. Close calls and bites. Attacked in the street to hiding out at a funeral home. Then finally making it to the high school dance in an attempt to save the students. A little too late for most though. After blowing up the school, the surviving teens and Coach head out for some pancakes and to plan their attack of the power plant. See straight forward. Nothing complicated. And it works so well. They let the zombie kills and attacks shine through and let the cast deliver what they were supposed to. Nothing overly dramatic.


The cast were all great. Funny and kick ass. It was a bit harder to like all of them and really get to know them all since it was a larger group, but you were still rooting for them. I found the three stoner rocker guys to be rather funny along with Jules, George, Steven, and Jimmy. Lucas Till (Jensen) was pretty funny during the scene where he and the other two band guys were trying to come up with lyrics for a song, and he kept on interrupting with these shitty lines. In the same scene he opens the garage door to air out the weed and comes face to face with a group of zombies. He turns and asks if they spiked his weed with formaldehyde again haha.


Since this is a zombie movie we had plenty of zombie gore and zombie deaths. Fake blood and body parts flying. When the zombies were rising up in the graveyard and the teens were running we got some pretty cool shots of zombies blowing up out of the graves and then land on the ground running. Pretty cool action sequence. Also I have noticed that in almost every zombie movie we get a scene where one character is caught by a group of zombies and then torn apart while screaming. You should know what I am talking about. It is a top down scene where the victim is screaming and the zombies are ripping them apart from the midsection down. Classics zombie scene. Sadly Jensen is the one to fall to that death. But funny too. Considering the zombies throw him up like in a concert them carry him a bit before feeding on him. Oh and the bathroom stall scene was good too. Although it was a bitch move on Gwen's part but the bit after made up for it. Some zombie teen love.


Final Thoughts:

Dance of the Dead was a fun movie. Nicely done and delivered a teen zombie movie that made sense and wasn’t a complete pile of garbage. Definitely give it a view along with Shaun of The Dead.

Ratings: 3.5 out of 5