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Zombies dig underground music.
Review: Three months after it premiered on the Sci-Fi channel, I finally
watched the fifth installment of the Return of the Living Dead franchise.
RotLD: Necropolis (Part 4) was a pile of crap and this sequel is just as bad if not worse.
Picking up where Necropolis left off, the corporate
scientist (Peter Coyote) tries to unload the remaining barrels of
the chemical that brings dead tissue back to life. The scientist is
unsuccessful and the barrels are discovered by his nephew (John
Keefe) and a friend (Jenny Mollen). Not knowing what they are,
the two college students take a barrel to their nerdy school chums
to investigate.
They learn it has hallucinogenic properties and the less
scrupulous of the group develop a drug to make some easy money. The drug
circulates through the school and students and faculty begin to fall prey to
the deadly secret ingredient. A new wave of zombies are born and
carnage erupts on campus. The fun and horror culminates at a bloody
rave where a final standoff takes place.
Surrounding this story is more bad directing, poor casting,
amateurish acting and awful dialogue. Most of the special effects
are done well and was clearly the one (and only) department handled
by talented professionals.
Peter Coyote's talents are again wasted. Thank goodness for the sake of his career he is not in
this movie much. All the other actors are made up of new and
unknowns. The female lead (Mollen) makes the film bearable when she's on
screen.
Don't even bother with Rave unless you're a diehard with
an unquenchable thirst for everything zombie.
(Sorry for the lack of screencaps, the photos were plucked from
the official
site.)
Learn more: IMDb
DVD version viewed: Return
of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (Lions Gate, UPC 031398204558)
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