Movie aside.... Love the Jack Skelington-faced pumpkin on the cover art... good luck with that 😆
7 Reviews
lawsuit waiting to happen
christiancarden27 September 2021
Violent encounters
kosmasp26 October 2021
If you are a horror fan, some of the names included here will be very familiar to you. I reckon Kane Hodder is known by many, even the (some) non horror fans. The movie itself is low budget and you may have to cut this some slack in some regards.
If you are ok with a lot of violence and some humor mixed into it and don't mind the usual hiccups with horror movies of this kind, you will be entertained. Everyone else might want to steer clear and away from this ... something the characters should have done with ... well you'll know who/what.
If you are ok with a lot of violence and some humor mixed into it and don't mind the usual hiccups with horror movies of this kind, you will be entertained. Everyone else might want to steer clear and away from this ... something the characters should have done with ... well you'll know who/what.
Another horrible so called horror movie
DongDiggity28 September 2021
If it isn't the poor looking image, the cheap story, or the horrible acting, this is such a bad film. The amount of poorly made "films" coming out over the last few years has bombarded viewers to the point that they no longer know what good films are. Looking at the high ratings for this "film" proves my point that too many people forgot what decent to good films were once like.
B as bad
bjornrhein1 April 2024
Too many good reviews I guess, just had to destroy the party
This is a low budget trash movie without feeling and charm, no story , bad effects and dont even get me start with the acting , some joker wrote a review here when he thought this reminded him of the 80is and I guess its true, has alot of evil dead flirting, but not in a good way , its not helping
This is just not a good movie, and I went bored even when its action, trying to find something on the plus side but its not much, one girl looked good and I think thats it then , lets give her 2 stars and then lets forgett this garbage movie.
This is a low budget trash movie without feeling and charm, no story , bad effects and dont even get me start with the acting , some joker wrote a review here when he thought this reminded him of the 80is and I guess its true, has alot of evil dead flirting, but not in a good way , its not helping
This is just not a good movie, and I went bored even when its action, trying to find something on the plus side but its not much, one girl looked good and I think thats it then , lets give her 2 stars and then lets forgett this garbage movie.
This is way above grade of the usual horror streamers.
BandSAboutMovies6 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
"Well, that sucks for you, because you've only got half a soul left."
"I only had half a soul to begin with."
Richard (Bill Oberst, Jr., the "Eric Roberts" of horror, with 40-plus films in various states of pre-and-post-production; his most recently reviewed films are 3 From Hell and Devil's Junction: Handy Dandy's Revenge) is a low-level gangster in the midst of retiring from his life of crime. But before his bosses will let him out, he has to pull one final job: steal money from a rival gangster's house. While Richard usually pulls jobs exclusively with his daughter Mouse (Mary Katherine O'Donnell; of the most recent Puppet Master romp The Littlest Reich), he's forced to include the psycho-incestuous murder Percy (horror icon Kane Holder) on the crew.
Yeah, this isn't going to end well. And we haven't got to the demons.
The other victims of the "Devils" are Melvin (new-to-the-screen David Rucker III), his wife Louise (horror icon Linnea Quigley), and his 40-year-old stepdaughter Caroline (up-and-coming indie actress Kelley Wilson Robinson; who produces). Together, they curate the Museum of the Macabre-and the makeshift basement gallery's newest acquisition is the alleged, infamous remains of the vampire Masquerade (the up-and-coming Veronika Stoykova; doing a great job under the make-up). And when those remains reanimate, Richard and Melvin join forces to protect their families in a Rodriquez-Tarantino showdown of the From Dust Till Dawn variety-only with a 1/2 cup of Raimiesque cabin humor spinning on the reel-to-reel.
What makes this all work is that-at first-you're not quite sure which road of bad intentions this ol' '73 Oldsmobile Delta 88 is traveling. When we first meet the Cliff Huxtable-nerdom of Melvin (complete with a festive, pullover jack-o-lantern sweater-vest; yet, unlike Hux: he's verbally abusive to his mousy wife and her kindly-ditzy daugthter), he's holding high court with a group of Halloween-salivating neighborhood kids-who affectionately nicknamed him "Mr. G."-weaving a tale about Masquerade as the kiddies anticipate his yearly Halloween display. Okay, so were heading down the orange-and-yellow candy corn road with Roy Ward Baker's The Monster Club (1981) and Fred Dekker's The Monster Squad (1987), which is fine with us VHS-lovin' movie folk freaks out in the wilds of Allegheny: we love our Ward Baker and Dekker flicks 'round 'ere.
David Rucker III, Kelley Wilson Robinson, and the divine Ms. Linnea Quigley Then Kane Holder (who's excellently unnerving) blows away a bound-and-gagged mother and daughter with a shotgun. For reals. From Jason Voorhees to Billy Cosby on the drop of a dime. Then things go a bit "Kevin S. Tenney" as we think we're getting a comedy-horror mix ala Night of the Demons (1988). But the vampire-demon possession follies have a graphic, Raimiesque vibe, even a Lamberto Bava Demons (1985) swagger.
What balances this trapped-in-the-house/cabin/movie theatre-and-we-can't-out demon soiree is the light-on-his-thespin' feet David Rucker III as Melvin. As the "Bruce Campbell" of this party, he expertly foils Bill Oberst, When you have a Raimiesque demon-witch ripping out a little trick or treater's throat and possessing another-and you're not a fan of kids-in-distress or dying on-camera (me)-you need a David Rucker III on the call sheets.
There's been some great indie-horrors coming out of the Carolinas of late-South Carolina screenwriter and director Tommy Faircloth's recently reviewed A Nun's Curse comes to immediate mind-and The Good Things Devils Do (a catchy title that encourages rental) is a nice addition to those states' burgeoning film resumes. You've got a familiar cast of horror greats hitting all of their marks (even though we lose them-graphically-half way though), buoyed by solid cinematography capturing a steady stream of action n' violence as the bodies pile up. This is way above grade of the usual horror streamers.
- Melvin and Richard, finally finding common ground
Richard (Bill Oberst, Jr., the "Eric Roberts" of horror, with 40-plus films in various states of pre-and-post-production; his most recently reviewed films are 3 From Hell and Devil's Junction: Handy Dandy's Revenge) is a low-level gangster in the midst of retiring from his life of crime. But before his bosses will let him out, he has to pull one final job: steal money from a rival gangster's house. While Richard usually pulls jobs exclusively with his daughter Mouse (Mary Katherine O'Donnell; of the most recent Puppet Master romp The Littlest Reich), he's forced to include the psycho-incestuous murder Percy (horror icon Kane Holder) on the crew.
Yeah, this isn't going to end well. And we haven't got to the demons.
The other victims of the "Devils" are Melvin (new-to-the-screen David Rucker III), his wife Louise (horror icon Linnea Quigley), and his 40-year-old stepdaughter Caroline (up-and-coming indie actress Kelley Wilson Robinson; who produces). Together, they curate the Museum of the Macabre-and the makeshift basement gallery's newest acquisition is the alleged, infamous remains of the vampire Masquerade (the up-and-coming Veronika Stoykova; doing a great job under the make-up). And when those remains reanimate, Richard and Melvin join forces to protect their families in a Rodriquez-Tarantino showdown of the From Dust Till Dawn variety-only with a 1/2 cup of Raimiesque cabin humor spinning on the reel-to-reel.
What makes this all work is that-at first-you're not quite sure which road of bad intentions this ol' '73 Oldsmobile Delta 88 is traveling. When we first meet the Cliff Huxtable-nerdom of Melvin (complete with a festive, pullover jack-o-lantern sweater-vest; yet, unlike Hux: he's verbally abusive to his mousy wife and her kindly-ditzy daugthter), he's holding high court with a group of Halloween-salivating neighborhood kids-who affectionately nicknamed him "Mr. G."-weaving a tale about Masquerade as the kiddies anticipate his yearly Halloween display. Okay, so were heading down the orange-and-yellow candy corn road with Roy Ward Baker's The Monster Club (1981) and Fred Dekker's The Monster Squad (1987), which is fine with us VHS-lovin' movie folk freaks out in the wilds of Allegheny: we love our Ward Baker and Dekker flicks 'round 'ere.
David Rucker III, Kelley Wilson Robinson, and the divine Ms. Linnea Quigley Then Kane Holder (who's excellently unnerving) blows away a bound-and-gagged mother and daughter with a shotgun. For reals. From Jason Voorhees to Billy Cosby on the drop of a dime. Then things go a bit "Kevin S. Tenney" as we think we're getting a comedy-horror mix ala Night of the Demons (1988). But the vampire-demon possession follies have a graphic, Raimiesque vibe, even a Lamberto Bava Demons (1985) swagger.
What balances this trapped-in-the-house/cabin/movie theatre-and-we-can't-out demon soiree is the light-on-his-thespin' feet David Rucker III as Melvin. As the "Bruce Campbell" of this party, he expertly foils Bill Oberst, When you have a Raimiesque demon-witch ripping out a little trick or treater's throat and possessing another-and you're not a fan of kids-in-distress or dying on-camera (me)-you need a David Rucker III on the call sheets.
There's been some great indie-horrors coming out of the Carolinas of late-South Carolina screenwriter and director Tommy Faircloth's recently reviewed A Nun's Curse comes to immediate mind-and The Good Things Devils Do (a catchy title that encourages rental) is a nice addition to those states' burgeoning film resumes. You've got a familiar cast of horror greats hitting all of their marks (even though we lose them-graphically-half way though), buoyed by solid cinematography capturing a steady stream of action n' violence as the bodies pile up. This is way above grade of the usual horror streamers.
Fun and likable but somewhat problematic effort
kannibalcorpsegrinder8 October 2020
Desperate to get out of the life, a small-time gangster and his daughter target the house of a scientist and his family holding onto a special relic that's of importance to his growing museum of oddities, only to realize that he's accidentally awakened a ruthless vampire queen who will stop at nothing to tear them apart.
This was a pretty likable effort with only a few troubling elements. Among it's more engaging aspects is the fun and enjoyable sense of fun once everything finally comes together. As the seemingly disjointed storylines take a while to get going and sort itself out, the way this moves away from the prototypical home-invasion gangster itself it sets up and changes into a siege effort holding out the vampires has a lot to like. Several of these attacks in the first half where they fight each other unknowingly to save the other or disrupt the plans of one for another have some solid action and fun at times. That leads into the other good part here where the main attacks on the various family members by the vampires offer up quite a lot to like here. The gruesome and incredibly bloody attacks as the vampire isn't shy about letting the blood flow freely brings about numerous fun attacks where it's over-the-top nature manages to get a fun atmosphere. The bloody tortures she inflicts by controlling protegees to get inside their heads and unleash some more psychological torments on the survivors make for a great time as well, and with the fantastic make-up on the vampire we get here, there are some highly enjoyable aspects. There are some issues to be had with this one. One of its main problems is the random set up at the beginning that makes for a slightly complex time getting involved here. The need to have all the different forces at play here, from the family and their dynamic to the gangster and his daughter to the second home-invasion attempt by the gangster who shows up unexpectedly and finally the vampire that arrives at the house just all jumbled together into a gigantic mess. It needed a lot more work than what we got to keep these storylines and motivations straight which is a problem that really stands out here. The other problem here is the film's up-and-down pacing that comes about due to this series of disjointed storylines. With a slow beginning that gives way to some decent action at times, the middle part of this one drops the pace off once again as the first attack tends to cause them to regroup and spend way too much time recapping their predicaments and past transgressions which all hold off the attacks and horror for extended periods of time. It's all terribly confusing and has quite an effect on this one with the up-and-down nature of what's happening, holding this one down the most.
Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence and Extreme Graphic Language.
This was a pretty likable effort with only a few troubling elements. Among it's more engaging aspects is the fun and enjoyable sense of fun once everything finally comes together. As the seemingly disjointed storylines take a while to get going and sort itself out, the way this moves away from the prototypical home-invasion gangster itself it sets up and changes into a siege effort holding out the vampires has a lot to like. Several of these attacks in the first half where they fight each other unknowingly to save the other or disrupt the plans of one for another have some solid action and fun at times. That leads into the other good part here where the main attacks on the various family members by the vampires offer up quite a lot to like here. The gruesome and incredibly bloody attacks as the vampire isn't shy about letting the blood flow freely brings about numerous fun attacks where it's over-the-top nature manages to get a fun atmosphere. The bloody tortures she inflicts by controlling protegees to get inside their heads and unleash some more psychological torments on the survivors make for a great time as well, and with the fantastic make-up on the vampire we get here, there are some highly enjoyable aspects. There are some issues to be had with this one. One of its main problems is the random set up at the beginning that makes for a slightly complex time getting involved here. The need to have all the different forces at play here, from the family and their dynamic to the gangster and his daughter to the second home-invasion attempt by the gangster who shows up unexpectedly and finally the vampire that arrives at the house just all jumbled together into a gigantic mess. It needed a lot more work than what we got to keep these storylines and motivations straight which is a problem that really stands out here. The other problem here is the film's up-and-down pacing that comes about due to this series of disjointed storylines. With a slow beginning that gives way to some decent action at times, the middle part of this one drops the pace off once again as the first attack tends to cause them to regroup and spend way too much time recapping their predicaments and past transgressions which all hold off the attacks and horror for extended periods of time. It's all terribly confusing and has quite an effect on this one with the up-and-down nature of what's happening, holding this one down the most.
Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence and Extreme Graphic Language.
Like a blast from the past
jontolley-7904918 August 2020
This film was a true joy to watch. This is a reminder of the glory days of fun horror films. It was a true homage to cult classics like Night of the Demons(the original), The Return of the Living Dead and others.
I cannot wait to see more from this up and coming director and writer, Jess Norvisgard. Guys like this might be able to bring fun horror back!
I cannot wait to see more from this up and coming director and writer, Jess Norvisgard. Guys like this might be able to bring fun horror back!
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