HumanoidOfFlesh I remember seeing "The Supernaturals" on cable TV during my childhood.The film left some memories,so it was the highest time to check it out after so many years.The prologue starts in 1865.A group of confederate soldiers is captured by the Yankees and forced to walk across a minefield.All of them die with an exception of a young boy.The year is 1986.A group of young soldiers led by Nichelle Nichols is camping in the woods.When the night begins the confederate zombies appear and start killing recruits one by one.It's up to Maxwell Caufield to save his platoon."The Supernaturals" is competently made and well-acted zombie flick.The film is relatively goreless as all the killings are off-screen.Still if you liked Tony Malanowski's "The Curse of the Screaming Dead" you may give this one a try.7 Civil War zombies out of 10.

udar55 A group of Army recruits (led by STAR TREK's Nichelle Nichols) head into the Kentucky woods for a weekend of training. What they don't expect to run into are some zombie Confederate soldiers led by the ghost of a lady who just happened to be married to Pvt. Ray Ellis (Maxwell Caulfield) in an earlier life. You still with me? While the set up of Confederate zombies seems great, don't get your hopes up as director Armand Mastroianni decides not to go all out. The film should have been more RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD and less what it is now. The biggest problem is that it takes place over a series of days, when it should have taken place in one night. The leads to a series of build ups and screeching halts that really drag the film's pace down. Also, the zombies should have been the focus but they are an afterthought and mostly obscured. Instead, we get this mystery woman - who no one questions why she is in a nightgown in the middle of the woods - and some mumbo jumbo regarding her son (who has some kind of magical powers that make his hands glow and also lived into the 1980s after a 1864 prologue!). Probably the most interesting thing about the film is seeing Nichols alongside future STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION star LeVar Burton. Co-starring Martin Balsam's daughter Talia.

Woodyanders 1865: A sadistic Union army commander forces several Confederate soldiers to walk across a minefield, brutally slaughtering the whole luckless lot of 'em in the process. 1985: A small group of raw Army recruits go into the same backwoods territory where the massacre occurred for basic maneuvers. The motley assortment of scruffy grunts discover the hard way that the eerie land is crawling with vicious, inhospitable, creepily cadaverous skull-faced zombies who don't take kindly to any trespassers on their sacred terrain. The zoms are still alive because a little psychic boy who witnessed the massacre in 1865 refuses to let the poor buggers die. The kid's beautiful, still alive mother (the strikingly comely Margaret Shendal) falls for nice guy GI Ray (hunky Maxwell Caulfield of "Grease 2" and "The Boys Next Door" fame) while the other less lucky squad members get stiffed by the shambling undead Civil War ghouls.Although the seemingly can't miss premise -- a genuinely inspired fright film amalgam of "2000 Maniacs," "Southern Comfort" and "Night of the Living Dead" -- promises a good, spooky "high concept" horror movie outing, "The Supernaturals" alas qualifies as a humongous letdown due largely to a terribly dry and rudimentary execution. Director Armand Mastroianni, the same guy responsible for the awfully boring slasher turkey "He Knows You're Alone," crucially fails to build any necessary tension or momentum, thus allowing this dud to tediously slog towards a rather drawn-out, less-than-harrowing conclusion. Caulfield, Nichelle Nichols ("Star Trek" 's Lt. Uhura), Levar Burton, Bobby Di Cicco, Talia Balsam, and "Bad Ronald" 's Scott Jacoby all contribute excellent, creditable performances, but not even their considerable acting skills can inject any much-needed vitality into this lifeless, lethargic loser. The nifty, scarcely seen zombie make-up by Mark Shostrom, a typically nice, moody score by the great, grossly under-appreciated B-movie composer Robert O. ("Mansion of the Doomed," "Grizzly") Ragland, and Peter Collister's stately, proficient cinematography are all up to snuff, but sound technical credits can't compensate for this snoozer's unbearably dormant, extremely slow and soporific pacing, conspicuously meager two-cent production values, and a hopelessly muddled, confusing story that isn't unraveled in a clear, compelling manner. Co-written and co-produced by longtime hack horror filmmaker Joel Soisson, this stupendously lackluster Sandy Howard production proves to be as successful at evoking chills and involving the viewer as General Custer was at besting the Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

gridoon I've read some pretty extreme (both positive and negative) reviews for this movie, but it's really a very middle-of-the-road affair. It's directed competently enough to keep you from feeling that you totally wasted your time with it, but it's also so derivative that it can even be called a ripoff (especially of Herschell Gordon Lewis' "Two Thousand Maniacs"; it has practically the same plot). The opening sequence is the best. (**)