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Death Valley

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DEath Valley is a very low budget horror film about a cursed ghost town of Sweet Valley. After the civil war, the residents hung the sister of a Confederate raider by the name of Bloody Bill Anderson. Bill sets his revenge on the town until he is actually captured, shot numerous times, and burned in his coffin. But even that can't keep Bill down as he still haunts the town as an undead zombie, turning all who mistakenly roam into the town as flesheaters themselves.

Enter now a group of college students who are on their way to a debate along with their coach. Now if this group could muster a 200 IQ between the six of them I'd be very surprised, let alone this bunch of jarheads actually being a debate team. A car-jacker/drug trafficker named Earl...out in the middle of the desert no less...takes over their van as he is searching for his missing partner and they end up in the ghost town. Well soon all hell breaks loose and zombies run, ala 28 Days Later, at the group from all sides, taking them down with Bloody Bill directing traffic. The group makes no attempt to get back in the van and leave even though there appear to be numerous opportunities. Jerry, is bitten by a zombie early on and spends the bulk of the film overacting with his screams while a dim-witted Mandy keeps asking him to tell her what's wrong...What's Wrong? He was bitten by a FEAKING ZOMBIE, you twit, that's what's wrong!

The make-up is fairly mediocre at best but the hide it by not giving you many closeups of the zombies and when they do they are very fleeting as the zombies zoom past. Add to that there is an annoying, pounding, heavy metal sidetrack that starts whenever the zombies attack that is repetitive and kills any atmosphere that may have been building.

One thing you can generally count on with low-budget films is the inclusion of some good, female eye-candy. But not here. The female stars are average at best and the lead female character, Gwen, is downright unattractive. Add to that is that this is the first or second film for most of the cast including the two leads and it all adds up to a subpar film. It's not completely horrible. It's certainly better than House of the Dead which received widescreen release a couple of years ago, but there isn't anything that really stands out as being above average. I suppose one positive is that the filmed is pretty much filmed all during the day...since it's always near sunset in "Sunset" so they didn't use the cheap trick of filming in the dark to hide any inadequacies.

All in all a weak to marginal low budget horror film

Stay away from all movies made by "The Asylum" movie company. They are all the true meaning of B-horror: Bad acting, bad FX, grainy picture/home movie qaulity