Product Details

• Actors: Clare Grant, Jillian Murray, Bill Moseley, Tony Todd, Amanda Wyss
• Directors: Brian Pulido
• Writers: Brian Pulido
• Producers: Brian Ronalds, Brian Pulido, Brett Kalina, Chris LaMont, Chris Rothert
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: March 23, 2010
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00344EAJG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,380 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Graves" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

On their last weekend together, Megan and Abby Graves are lost in a remote part of the Arizona desert where they are lured to Skull City Mine, an abandoned mine town. But they soon learn Skull City is anything but abandoned – and there’s no way out. The sisters are now prey, forced to unleash their most primitive instincts in a desperate, all-out battle for survival against unspeakable horrors – both human and supernatural. Can they unlock the terrifying secrets of Skull City in time to save themselves, or will they become the latest in a long line of victims?

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad is not the word for this! There should be no stars., April 6, 2010

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M. Dubray "Real Film Lover." (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Graves (DVD)

To say this is a horrible movie would be too kind. No plot. Bad female lead "acting". Waste of Tony Todd and Bill Moseley. Pathetic editing. Worthless photography. "Production" value is nowhere. "Special Effects?" I love how the girl hacks Bill too death yet not a drop of blood gets on her. I love how these girls are in the Arizona heat and nowhere during the film do they perspire or even look like they were sweating.! There is a book on Amazon called, "Your Screenplay sucks!", Brian Pulido really needs to read it. And having that many "extras". Seriously? You want us all to see how much worthless "talent" it took to make this piece of garbage? Brian went to "film " school. He should've taken a writing or art class so he at least could've found out before that he can't write, direct or produce anything of value for movie watchers. The ONLY thing I can say this heap of a "movie" has any value for is that any professors in film schools should let their students see this as what "NOT" too do ,as far as film making goes. A student should be warned prior to viewing but also encouraged to see this is how you, "write", "produce", "direct", Edit" a truly, truly Worthless film. Brian Pulido needs to get a different career. Immediately!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Something stinks, and it's not the monster, January 6, 2011

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Michael J. Tresca "Talien" (Fairfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Graves (DVD)

The Graves is one of those movies that decided it's already a success before it was written, produced, or filmed. It has the air of shameless promotion about it, like when the Graves sisters (gorgeous Clare Grant as Megan and cute younger sister Abby played by Jillian Murray) fawn over comic books and then lean over the counter in low-cut shirts. Nobody's looking at the comic books for long.

If you're wondering what the heck is going on - and it will take you awhile if you're not a fan of Brian Pulido - this is the author's first film. He's actually the creator of such comic books as Evil Ernie and Lady Death. Which explains the cleavage, but little else.

Hotter sister Megan is moving on to a big career in New York City and the girls are out for one last fling before they are separated by distance and success. So after lounging around comic book shops in tight clothes, they visit a tourist trap at the abandoned Skull City Mine. There's nothing believable about these two: not their relationship, hobbies, or acting.

The sisters stumble across a cult dedicated to what seems like a fundamentalist cult, complete with hand-waving Reverend Abraham Stockton (Tony Todd). Todd is at a loss as how to emulate a fire-and-brimstone preacher - he comes off awkwardly stilted even in his "divinely inspired" moments. Of course, the entire cult he leads is actually following some demonic force. I think. It's hard to tell.

There are some interesting special effects. Every time someone dies, there's an awful racket of screams and wails. There's really no explanation for this (the souls are all going to hell, I guess), and not much of a reaction from the characters. You begin to wonder if they can hear what the audience is hearing...

Because what we hear is pretty bad. Pulido is simply not a competent director. The camera lingers on the girls limping and on villains stomping along. Sympathetic murderers, claiming that "they take no pleasure" in their kills, are drowned out by the score, or by the sound of the wind, or by the girls talking off screen. Pulido seems to have written The Graves script like a comic book, and he fills the audio with off-screen dialogue by the girls. Just in case it's not clear: THERE ARE NO THOUGHT BUBBLES IN MOVIES. Including thought bubbles might have helped a lot, actually.

The list of inanity goes on and on. The girls get possessed by some kind of smelly stench that makes them violent. They act out this violence by gnashing their teeth at each other like kids pretending to be dogs. Eventually, the girls are captured to be sacrificed to whatever is giving off that awful smell. Since no monster ever shows up, we can only assume it's the movie itself that stinks.

By the end of the movie, the Graves sisters have the temerity to dub themselves "monster killers." You get the impression Pulido had big plans for this to be his very own Buffy series, maybe even a comic book spinoff. But there's no monster here. The scariest thing about this cynical comic book marketing mess is that it was made at all.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars GRAVE MATTERS, March 25, 2010

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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Totally preposterous movie with a couple of hilarious scenes. Tony Todd shimmys and shakes in an over the top performance as the fanatical reverend--a Jamie Foxx/Cuba Gooding impersonation..a real hoot. Equally hilarious is the scene where the bound sisters hiss and claw at each other after smelling the demon! This movie is actually in two parts..the first a slasher set in a deserted silver mine; the other set in the town of Unity, kind of a CHILDREN OF THE CORN parody.
The Horrorfest series is usually a lot better!