(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">    <p>Romance writer Emma (Emma Gruttadauria) has found her winter retreat on a New England island which seems perfect for writing due to all the piece and quiet ... that is, until she has to put up an incompetent and highly irritating (yet somewhat attractive) handyman, David (Joshua Koopman), up for the night due to weird weather that causes power outages and even cars to stop cold. She's highly annoyed ... and then a naked girl wihout any memory, Veronica (Alexandra Creteau), arrives on her doorstep, and the more Emma tries to take care of Veronica, the more Veronica weirds her out. Actually, it seems Veronica knows quite some secrets of the house Emma doesn't. Emma soon thinks David wants to get into Veronica's panties, which is at best half true though, but annoys Emma beyond believe because she has started to like David ...<p>Meanwhile, outside a young man, Coby (Nick Apostolides), kills everyone in his way quite viciously, and he zeroes in on Emma's house.<p>Eventually, a policeman arrives at Emma's place, and asks if he could spend the night due to the weird weather - and Emma is glad because she figures he will help her with Veronica ... and in the beginning, that seems to be a very sensible solution, too, because there is an almost instant bond between the cop and Veronica ... but there is also a problem, the cop is Coby the killer. It gradually dawns upon Emma and David that they have to run for their lives, but they also find out something even weirder: Coby and Veronica aren't at all from their time but have some kind of history that ties them to a violent crime in the very house Emma lives in from more than 50 years earlier. And this old story doesn't exactly improve Emma and David's chances for survival ...<p> <p>Now first of all, who expected <b>Night of the Naked Dead</b> to be a softcore spoof of the classic <b><a href="nightofthelivingdead(1968).shtml">Night of the Living Dead</a></b> will be disappointed on that account - and yet this doesn't make <b>Night of the Naked Dead</b> a bad film necessarily, it's actually a pretty weird and inventive supernatural mystery, on a narrative level at least, and it features a bunch of pretty good performances. The movie just lets itself down a bit on the directorial level, it just seems too ... conventional, without any real quirks or highlights and a bit low on atmosphere, too. Plus, it ends a bit too happily and randomly considering everything that went on before.<p>That said, the film's still totally worth a look, it just fails to reach its full potential. <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2013"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>