But I guarantee during our break we'll get into all kinds of things...maybe we'll tell you about it..or maybe not. So today I'll be telling you weirdos about a movie called The Gravedancers. Ever hear of it? No? Yes? Well let me tell you a few things about it. The Gravedancers is a 2005 American horror film directed by Mike Mendez and written by Brad Keene and Chris Skinner. Here's something you may or may not know, The Gravedancers was chosen as one of 8 Films to Die For in 2006 and was screened at that year's After Dark Horrorfest film festival. Awesome. Let me tell you a little more about it.
The film begins with a young woman in a dark room telling someone or something to leave her alone. She is then attacked by an invisible force, who hangs her in the stairway of her house. As she dies, she drops a black envelope on the stairs. Fast forward exactly one year later to the funeral of Devin Lansing, who died in a car accident. His three close friends from college, Sid, Kira, and Harris attend the funeral and meet up at a local bar.
Sid decides that they should all go to Devin's grave one last time together because he didn't go to the funeral. Harris and Kira are hesitant at first but eventually meet up with Sid. They begin drinking and saying their final goodbyes to an old friend. Sid finds a black envelope tucked behind flowers on Devin's headstone. It contains a note urging those present and alive to be joyful and dance on the graves. In their drunken state, the three friends regard this as a celebration of life, and so they dance.
Shortly after, strange things begin happening. Harris and his wife Allison are frightened by unexplained sounds and odd visions. While lying in bed one night, Allison hears someone next to her saying "He told me that he loved me" and when she turns around she sees a woman whom she thinks is Kira, Harris' old flame from college. The woman lunges at Allison and she runs down the stairs to tell Harris. She is so convinced that it was Kira that she drives herself and Harris to Kira's house to confront her.
Upon arriving, they discover Kira's house in disarray and Kira nowhere to be found. They are walking through the house when Kira stumbles out of the bathroom but it quickly dragged back inside while the door slams shut. Harris opens the door and finds Kira cowering in a bathtub with blood and marks all over her body. They take her to the hospital where the doctor tells them that she was severely bitten and possibly sexually assaulted.
They get a call from Sid who believes he is being haunted. He enlists the help of two paranormal investigators, Vincent Cochet and Frances Culpepper. They talk to Harris and Sid and the two admit that they danced on graves the night of Devin's funeral and tell the investigators about the note on the headstone. Vincent and Frances tell them that they inadvertently invoked a powerful force by dancing on the graves. They tell them that they are now being haunted by three wayward spirits. Sid is being haunted by a child pyromaniac, Harris is being haunted by a passionate axe murderer, and Kira is being haunted by a serial killer/rapist who had a fetish for sodomy. They then tell Harris and Sid that the spirits will take their revenge and kill them on the next full moon.
As the full moon approaches, under the advice of Vincent and Frances, they return to the cemetery to uncover the remains of their tormentors, hoping to rebury them and put the curse to rest. The spirits attack Sid, Harris, and Kira at the cemetery and they barely escape alive. They return back to Vince's home where they are attacked again by the malevolent forces. Kira is talking to Allison when the force that's haunting her finds her and traps her in a room.
As the full moon approaches, under the advice of Vincent and Frances, they return to the cemetery to uncover the remains of their tormentors, hoping to rebury them and put the curse to rest. The spirits attack Sid, Harris, and Kira at the cemetery and they barely escape alive. They return back to Vince's home where they are attacked again by the malevolent forces. Kira is talking to Allison when the force that's haunting her finds her and traps her in a room.
Sid and Harris are trying to knock down the door to get to her, but when they do they find Kira floating in the air and a shard of glass hovering above her throat. As they move to save her, an unseen force slits Kira's throat and she falls to the floor. Vincent insists that everyone stay together, and when they can't find Frances, he eventually finds her alone in a study. Allison, Harris, and Sid join them and that's when she tells them that.....
What does that nerdy bitch have to say?? Well, how about you go to Netflix and watch The Gravedancers and find out! I liked this movie alot. It creeped me out a few times..I mean it gave me goosebumps and everything. The special effects were a little on the cheesy side, but creepy nonetheless. I mean the creepy, rapist ghost when it was attacking Kira was just scary looking!! Ughh!
I'd straight pee in my underpants if I saw that thing coming at me. But I will say that some of the effects really kinda looked like people in Halloween costumes, not too believable really. And it's the weirdest thing, I thought that I'd never seen this movie, but it wasn't until almost towards the end when I saw the ghost of the child pyromaniac when I realized that I had seen it before. How could I forget that creepy skull head on that little kids body!
The acting was decent and I thought the plot was really original also. The whole getting cursed for dancing on graves thing was kinda cool I thought. It was a little B-ish though during some parts. Not horrible, but not great either. My one big problem was with the end, I won't give it away but the last five minutes are just...terrible. The CGI at the end was totally unnecessary and completely ridiculous. It sort of reminded me of a scary Disney movie.
Overall I'd give The Gravedancers a 3.5 out of 5. It was a decent film, something I'd definitely recommend watching with someone in the dark, it's sure to make you jump a time or too. Not really all that scary, but I think it meant more as a cheesy, over the top kinda thing, ya know? Now that you know how I feel about that, make sure to stop by and see what Zane's doing! And as always, check back next week for new stuff here at Dead End Horror.
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