"Masters of Horror" Dance of the Dead (2005)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Writers:

Mick Garris (creator)
Richard Christian Matheson (teleplay)

TV Series:

"Masters of Horror" (2005)

Original Air Date:

11 November 2005 (Season 1, Episode 3)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

In a post-apocalypse society, the seventeen years old Peggy lives with her protective mother and works in her restaurant...

Plot Keywords:

Sex With The Dead | Body In Dumpster | Necrophilia | Dumpster | Garbage Dumpster

Cast

Jonathan Tucker	...	Jak
Jessica Lowndes	...	Peggy
Ryan McDonald	...	Boxx
Marilyn Norry	...	Kate
Lucie Guest	...	Celia
Robert Englund	...	The M.C.
Emily Anne Graham	...	Young Peggy (as Emily Graham)
Genevieve Buechner	...	Young Anna
Margot Berner	...	Marie
Sharon Heath	...	Gerri
Don MacKay	...	Steven
Karen Austin	...	Quinn
Erica Carroll	...	Mia
Fraser Aitcheson	...	Giant Door Guy
Julia Barrick Taffe	...	Loopy Girl #1 (as Julia Taffe)

Runtime:

59 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-MA | Argentina:16 | Germany:18

Company:

British Columbia Production Tax Credit

Quotes:

Peggy: What are you doing here?
Jak: Short circuiting tragedy. The world's got big teeth, eats girls like you for kicks.

Hooper: 4, Malone: 8

Tobe Hooper: "Dance of the Dead"-Hooper is one of those directors/artists that are on my top favourites list just because a one single work: That is of course in this case The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But I don't have any expectations from him. Partly because the mentioned movie is so perfect and ingenious, that it's hard to imagine him doing anything better, at least if he doesn't try something completely different. Of course comparing is always stupid, be that somebody's own works or others. I try to review every piece as it's own, separate self. OK. There are interesting people here: Very beautiful (Suicidegirls-type) girls, and very sick, disgusting and dirty criminals. The music is very good. The visuals are very well made: Contemporary "chaotic" cutting and camerashaking styles have been used very justifiably. The story (from Richard Matheson) is interesting enough. It's funny that the "end of the world" reality in this film doesn't differ at all from the actual world today. So that's what this is: A picture of the existing reality in today's city culture. Not bad, but not amazing either.

William Malone:"Fair-Haired Child"-Malone is one of the directors in this series, whose name I've never heard. Which is a good thing of course. This movie has really unpleasant atmosphere right from the start, which is also a good start for a horror flick. I guess. At least in it's surrealistic elements this differs from the other parts (of Masters of Horror). This is also the only part in which the (really sick) main characters inner life and history is shown at least a little bit. The overall feeling is kind of a mystery/fairy tale-like, although the story is quite close to the earth. Yeah, it's good. Nothing to complain about. One of the best stories in this series.