Rated 3 out of 5
Just Saw this on TV
I just saw this movie on the SciFi Channel. The name and description my dish network gave to describe the movie mislead me into believing it would be something I’’d like. This movie is lacking in many areas.The story has no flow to it. Things just seem to happen at random. The initial awakening of the zombies, for example, made no sense to me. Maybe I missed something, or possibly a part was cut to make the movie fit into the television timeslot, but it seemed really random. Some blood drops from a statue of a dog or a gargoyle or something like that onto the ground. The dirt then begins to move and three zombies come out from under it, with no reason given for the blood to have been there in the first place. There’’s plenty of other things that are odd and don’’t quite fit in well, but I won’’t mention them because I don’’t want to give away the story.
The special effects in this movie are also a bit short of amazing. The zombies look terrible and the scenes in which humans are possessed by the souls of witches are quite bad as well. Various other small things, like the glowing red eyes of the undead look horribly fake.
This movie is not completely terrible, considering the fact I actually watched the whole thing. The initial idea for the story seems to be pretty good, but the final script is definitely flawed. I thought the sets used in the film were really cool, and the death scenes were pretty neat as well. I’’ve seen plenty of horror movies that are much better than this, but I’’ve also seen a ton of them that are much, much worse. As a movie in general, The Prison of the Dead is sub-par at best. But when compared to other horror movies, especially recent ones, this movie isn’’t too bad.