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Diane (Elizabeth North) just needs to have a special magic book that
would help her raise the dead, but she cannot buy it as that would destroy
the book's bowers ... so she shoots the guy (Lucien Eisenach) who wants to
sell her the book. Then she tries to revive him using some runse - but the
revivification just doesn't seem to work, so her husband Lane (Jeff Dylan
Graham) agrees to help her get rid of the body - by sawing it up, putting
it into concrete and dumping it into a nearby lake. However, while he does
that, several bodyparts come to life after all, and quite independently,
and one hand escapes. And while Lane is busy chasing the hand, Diane goes
to the cemetery to bring her father back to life - but daddy has started
to rot over the years, and now he becomes a murderous zombie, who goes on
a killing spree before returning to Lane and Diane's house, killing her.
Lane puts up a bit of a fight, during which he cuts up dad - but the
bodyparts escape independently, and Lane sees no other way out than to
shoot himself. Of course, a synopsis like this suggests comedy
in big letters, yet director Steve Sessions decided to play it straight,
furnish the film with a dark atmosphere and get fittingly somber
performances out of his actors and actresses. A recipe for desaster, one
would suggest - but no, the film works amazingly well that way, being
carried by some incredibly dry humour rather than obvious jokes and a
coherent, macabre narrative rather than a succession of half-funny
episodes. A pretty good little film, actually.
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