We Take Our Bets Very Seriously Around Here.

After stealing from a local grocery store, five teens are on the run, and before they know it, the cops are chasing them besides the store clerk. With the pressure on and nowhere to go, the teens decide to take the only route with a chance of escape; unaware that this route is for sure a death sentence for each and every one of them. Realizing the group is lost, and they shortly thereafter have no car left, the group follows the one who took charge and tries to find civilization. Getting spookier and spookier, this film starts out like an R rated Scooby Doo episode, but ends up delivering with some great zombie makeup as well as amazing scenery. For a split second, I thought that this was the movie the group of people watched during the film “Demons” which is also directed by Lamberto Bava, but realized soon after that though at this film came out several years after. If you know what film I am talking about, you could just picture the darkness, and try to get the thick cobwebs out of your hair. As oppose to the teens just stumbling onto a cemetery like in that picture, there is a bit more depth to this story. Finding themselves in an inn of some sort (that wasn’t there during the daylight hours), one of the kids takes a bet that has a superstitious past to it. In order to claim a large amount of money and jewels, the kid has to put some in of his own and spend a night in a crypt where the bartender says “it’s as easy as taking you’re last breath”. As well as the depth in the story, there is also a huge twist on the ending and classic kinds of monsters who stalk and try to kill the living ones disturbing they’re graveyard. I even think I saw a midget wearing a KISS shirt!! Finally available on region 1 DVD, this “Tombs of The Blind Dead” meets “City of The Living Dead” Italian horror flick will be a worthy addition to anyone’s movie collection.

6/10