Watched The Gravedancers last night.
Originally part of the 2006 After Dark Horrorfest 8 Films to Die For.
Although never a classic, the Gravedancers is an effective little ghost story.The story centres on three friends who spend a night drinking and fooling around in a graveyard to celebrate their recently deceased friends life.
Unbeknown to them they have disturbed the spirits on whose graves they danced and all hell breaks loose.
I found it refreshing as the main protagonists in the film are not the usual high school idiots, but rather well rounded adults. The film is certainly well acted with excellent camera work, good location filming, superb production values and lush musical scores.
Kudos must go to the creature/ghost designers whose creations are extremely effective and rise above the poor CGI monsters in most other indiependant movies.
All in all if you enjoyed Poltergeist, The Legend of Hell House and The Evil Dead, then The Gravedancers is probably just up your street.
The film stars Dominic Purcell (Prison Break), Claire Kramer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Thirst) and the always watchable Tcheky Karyo (The Core, Bad Boys, Dobermann)
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