utgard14 Meg Tilly plays a girl that has to spend the night in a mausoleum as part of a club initiation. The club is basically just three chicks, one of which is Dottie from Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Why Meg wants to be a part of this club is silly. It's pretty much the same motivation used on Leave It to Beaver whenever Beaver let his friends talk him into something stupid. Anyway, turns out a psychic vampire named Karl Raymar has been buried in the crypt Meg's spending the night. Wouldn't you know it, he returns from the dead this night and terrorizes Meg and the other girls.It's a fun little movie if you don't have high expectations. There's zombies, lots of cool electrical effects, and some nice creepy atmosphere. Don't let the rating dissuade you from trying it out. It may not please the gore & guts crowd but it's a pretty good low-budget horror movie.

callanvass This one had a ton of potential, believe it or not. It's drenched in creepy atmosphere. The problem is that it's so damn dull, by the time everything happens, I simply didn't care anymore. I've always found Mausoleums to be extremely creepy, perhaps even creepier than a cemetery. The storyline is good, if a little clichéd. We've seen snobby girls wanting to perform an initiation before in horror films, but it works more often than not. This does have some decent boo scares in the finale, but they don't know when to quit. There are WAY too many shots of corpses popping up, with endless shots of blue lightning coming from a psychic zombie. It felt like a broken record with how much they were showing it. I was bored senseless for this long, only for that to commence? Nothing much happens for the first hour or so, and that's how I get repaid? Way to make your viewers angry, McLoughlin! Also… why on earth would anyone agree to spend a night in a creepy Mausoleum, just to pass an Initiation test? I too, wanted to be popular back in school, but never would I agree to that. It was so moronic. I would have said screw you. You can tell this is the 80's, because we get cheesy obsolete terms, such as "noodle brain" The annoying subplot between Olivia McKenna (Melissa Newman) & her dead psychic father got on my nerves. Not much emphasis was put on it. Meg Tilly is decent as the lead. Ostensibly, her hysterical reactions were genuine, as she was legitimately freaked out by the Mausoleum. I don't blame her. She's distinctly sweet, and has this sense of innocence to make her likable, even if she is drugged out in the second half a little bit. Robin Evans plays the token slut as Carol. She did it well. Adam West is known as the original Batman, but doesn't give much of a performance here. The rest of the performances aren't worth mentioning. The only gore we get here are rotting corpses. The P.G rating showsFinal Thoughts: It's atmospheric, but way too dull for me to recommend. I'm not gonna tell you to avoid it, but prepared for your mind to wander half the time. 4/10

Bezenby More obscure eighties horror thanks to 23rd Century DVD. The print may be rubbish, the sound terrible, but for a pound what do you expect? A bit of a guilty pleasure this one. It's one of those horror movies that doesn't rely on a killing every ten minutes to sustain your attention, but instead builds up to a big special effects pay off which makes all the screaming at the television all worthwhile, and where else are you going to see someone suffocated by telekinetically propelled corpses? In a nicely atmospheric opening, several coroner's trucks pull up outside of an apartment building and start off loading trolleys. Inside we find some old geezer dead on the floor. No great shakes in itself, but the six dead girls in his cupboard and the various kitchen implements embedded in the walls raise a few questions. Turns out the old fella was Raymar, some crazed telekinetic psychic vampire.Raymar's daughter, kept at arms length by Raymar for most of her life, starts digging into his past to find out more about her father. Her husband, Batman, keeps telling her to shut up and leave it, but after a few screaming matches Batman kind of gives up and goes to bed for most of the film. As events unfold Raymar's daughter begins to realise that her dad may have let himself die for some reason.Elsewhere, Julie (Meg 'not as annoying as I'll turn out' Tilly) wants to join some school clique called the sisters, but the leader of the sisters, Carol, is the ex-girlfriend of Julie's lad Steve, and has plans for a bit of an evil initiation ceremony involving Julie staying in a mausoleum where Raymar is interned. Not only that, Carol's sidekick Kitty has given Julie some tablets, pretending they are sleeping pills, but are really some kick ass downers which'll have Julie freaking out when Carol and Kitty start running around the mausoleum in rubber masks.That's some set up, eh? Takes a long, long time to get going, this one, and for the more modern viewer a lot of patience is needed. You get many scenes of Julie wandering around the mausoleum, Steve wandering around looking for Julie, and Raymar's daughter listening to a tape about her father.But THEN comes the big pay off, and Entity Force pays off in spades. Once Raymar decides to get back up again, we have corpses flying around, sparks shooting out of Raymar's eyes, faces melting and someone's foot getting stuck in a corpse. The corpse effects are pretty good and you've got that neon colouring so common in eighties films (see Vamp for the finest example).The soundtrack is pretty good too, and although the picture is grainy as hell, and jumpy with it, it's doesn't obscure all the creepy at night scenes like some transferred from video releases do - However, I must say that in my wanderings the only copy of Entity Force I've spotted is the one I own, so if you see it, snap it up.Kind of reminded me of the Dark Power, another 'pay-off' eighties horror movie.

stumaczter1 Let me start by saying I was only 2 when this movie came out but I loooove a good low budget 80's horror flick especially early & mid 80's(cheesy or not!)...a few good ones that I can think of off the bat are "Demons"..."Demons 2"..."Happy Birthday To Me"..."April Fools Day"..."Slumber Party Massacre"..."Witchboard"..."Chopping Mall"..."The Evil Dead" etc. BUT this movie is TOTAL garbage the special effects are crap (even for a low budget film),the storyline is whack & does'nt hold your interest...the acting is bad & not in a "so bad it's good" way...the killings are lame & ridiculous...& the finale was really poor! I kept waiting for it to get better but sadly the movie never lifts off,I can't believe people said this scared them when they 1st saw it cause this movie IS NOT scary! I watched this with my girlfriend on Friday (she also loves 80's horror) & when it was over we just watched each other & rolled our eyes then she buried her face in the pillow shaking her head & laughing in disbelief. Anyway enough of me slandering this doo doo pile of a "movie"...I actually feel awkward as I'm blasting this movie so much cause I'm not really a negative guy & I always try to find something good about movies I watch but I had to make an exception here because this film is that terrible! Those people that gave this movie a good rating & said it scared them must've been on acid when they watched it!