Halloween horror marathon: I Sell the Dead

poster-i-sell-the-deadThere were so many damned trailers I had to skip through before I Sell the Dead, I just about shut it off. When you can’t just hit “menu” and go straight to the flick, that’s dirty pool.

As far as the movie itself goes: the production values are a bit near SciFi original movie, with too much exposition, and not enough action. Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman are good actors, but I wanted to see grave robbing, not chit-chatting. A good filmmaker crafts a movie where you’re shown what’s going on, rather than having two people sit and tell you. The film seems to operate more on the “use your imagination” school of thought, too.

All of the corpses are fresh, which makes sense given the two graverobbers who are our protagonists, but a little rotting shouldn’t be too much to ask.

A vampire attack early on is slightly goofy, but not really funny. The whole tone of I Sell the Dead is like that, really: just terribly uneven and never quite living up to the promise of its premise. “Graverobbers specializing in the supernatural” just oozes potential, but it’s a plot sadly wasted.

The less said about the alien corpse (and the zombies who shy away from crosses), the better. The one-legged zombie’s pretty funny, though.