Review of A Cadaver Christmas (2011) by Dexter L — 24 Nov 2012

My sister in law picked this one up at a failing video rental place, which in retrospect seems appropriate. This movie reeks of desperate, go-getter, succeed-or-die, Filmmakers who try so hard that they ruin what could have been a fun movie. I say this because the writing actually isn't all that bad. That is if you go under the assumption that they were going for a tongue in cheek approach (which I believe they were). There are some chunks of time where the ticking clock of doom seems to take a time out to give way to not so bad camp dialogue with some ok one liners. But, aside from that the pacing is... You know what I take it back. The writing is awful.

It's the dialogue and characters I find charming. But the acting is SO overdone that it makes what they're saying hard to focus on. The Cop is particularly guilty of this.

It's a movie about a zombie uprising in a small university town, but the amount of time spent with zombies... Oops... Sorry... "Cadavers" (wouldn't want copy write infringement?). Anyway the amount of time spent with "Cadavers" is barely worth the effort of calling this a "Cadaver" Christmas.

The film is chalk full if obvious influences (or rip offs) from such films as Planet Terror, Evil Dead, Creepshow, Dawn if the Dead, and that's just to name a few.

Bottom Line: it's a terrible film. But it's the kind of terrible I would watch again for fun. So, I find myself recommending this film to anyone who enjoys a "So Bad It's Funny" horror film.