Shadow Zone: The Undead Express, a review by addicted2dvd
My Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon
2008
With Halloween being my all-time favorite holiday... I like to celebrate it all month long. So every year at this time I have a month long horror / Halloween marathon. Every year I try to beat my record of most horror movies and horror or Halloween episode TV Series. Last year I did better then I ever have when I watched 84 Horror Movies and 34 TV Show Episodes. But I am determined to beat that record this year. Not only do I plan on beating my record This year but I also plan on adding another category to my marathon... an Other category where I will watch stuff like horror shorts and documentaries.
October 1st:
Title: Shadow Zone: The Undead Express
Movie Count: 1
TV Ep Count: 0
Other Count: 0
Time Started: 12am
Plot:
Out of the darkness, the grim reaper appears in a graveyard among headstones and gargoyles. Elegantly cloaked, but masked by shadows, his eyes burn yellow as he tells us we all have a little evil inside us. Take Zach Kincaid...
A lonely and intense 14-year-old horror movie hunkie, Zach ('Chauncey Leopardi') is a good kid but a little confused as a result of his parents' recent break-up. Perhaps for this reason, he often tends to stretch the truth. His friends, J.T. Heffernan, a computer geek, and Gabrielle "Gabe" Lattanzi, a lovely, intellegent athlete, humor Zach, but knoe just how much to believe.
On the way home one weekend, Zach becomes lost on a deserted subway platform. When he stops for directions he is attacked, but recued in the nick of time by Valentine ('Ron Silver'), a self-styled vegetarian vampire from the turn of the century. Finding cold comfort in Valentine's assurance of protection, Zach runs for the first available train. Unfortunately he steps onto the Undead Express, which is full of vampires who are not, appartently, vegetarian...
My Thoughts:
This is a movie I seen many years ago when it first came out. It is actually a TV Movie that originally aired on Showtime. Going into this movie I remembered it as being so good... and was so excited when I saw it available on DVD. I really wanted to see it again... hoping it would be as good as I remembered it being. I am happy to say I did enjoy every minute of it still. I was kinda surprise that for a vampire movie you didn't get to see a single person get bit. But that is probably because this movie was made with younger teens and families in mind. It was kinda in the same vein (sorry for the bad pun!) as goosebumps... but maybe a little more spooky then that.
As for the DVD itself... it is put out by a lower-budget company... so unfortunately there is no extras what so ever on this release. Not even the trailer. So my first movie for this year's marathon had to hit on a pet peeve of mine. The video and audio quality was good... not great but more then watchable.Over-all was definitely worth the time I put in to watch this one.
My Rating:
Out of a possible 5:
(From My Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon: 2008 on October 1st, 2008)
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