Some college kids are headed to Florida for spring break. Of course they plan to party hard during the week, but they are also supposed to be writing a History term paper. When they drive through a southern town (called Pleasant Valley) on the way they will get the history lesson of their lives, or deaths more like. The South will rise again!
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| Welcome to Pleasant Valley! |
It has been a number of years since I last saw this one, but even for the shlocky-ness of the plot, it had left a mark on me that I wanted to revisit. I remembered some of the death scenes very vividly and also remembering thinking it was utterly stupid. It is. But, it is also pretty fun. Mayor Buckman (Robert Englund) is the patriarch of this sleepy little southern town and Granny Boone (played by iconic Lin Shaye) the matriarch. Aside from the terrible acting in most of this film, these two shine in their roles as cannibalistic ghosts. That's right, if you haven't seen it, I just ruined it for you. They're ghosts. That eat people. I mean, there's a "You ARE what they eat" tagline and gravestones on the cover. It's really not all that surprising. But, really anything Robert Englund is in is a gem in my book. I haven't watched the Masters of Horror - Dance of the Dead with him yet, but a friend of mine really likes it so that might appear on the list next year. Also has a short appearance by horror director Eli Roth in it. Overall, basically what you would expect for a gore-fest set in the deep south with stupid college spring breakers and racist, cannibalistic ghosts. The death scenes are hilarious and sort of creative. My favorite was when the Mayor was talking to a victim and he spits in his eye, except not in his eye but on the eye patch and he put a handkerchief on it like he was so offended and hurt. It's those subtleties in the humor of this movie that gives it the 3-skull rating it deserves.
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