Anthology TV shows really are a strange breed as even tho there have been plenty of them very few of them are horror related. However in 2005 that's exactly what we got and on top of that we also got episodes that were directed by some of the best legends in the world of horror however I sadly never got the chance to watch this show when it was first airing well that now all changes as i've just watched my very first episode of the show and so then join me as I watch the episode that really is a let down when you take into account who is directing this episode with the episode in question being called simply just "Dance Of The Dead" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is a girls life is forever turned upside down when she has the chance to find out what really happened to her missing sister. Now then interms off what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honest I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but that's sadly also the issue as the plot for this episode wasn't all that good either with the plot being really weak at best and with it just coming and going as and when it chooses which only served to make the episode feel boring in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Jessica Lowndes as Peggy , Genevieve Buechner as Young Anna and Jonathan Tucker as Jak. Also starring in this episode is Margot Berner as Marie , Ryan McDonald as Boxx , Marilyn Norry as Kate , Lucie Guest as Celia , Sharon Heath as Gerri , Horror icon Robert Englund as The MC , Erica Carroll as Mia , Don MacKay as Steven and Karen Elizabeth Austin as Quinn.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of the episodes cast turning in some decent performances which is something that really did shock me as alot of the episodes cast members are unknown actors and so to expect good acting from them wouldn't have made sense and yet that's exactly what we got as all of the actors in this very really did turn in performances that were really good but the actors are very sadly let down by the episodes poor script.
This episode really does go to show you just how versatile of an actor that Robert Englund really is as he goes from charming to sinister all within the exact same scene in this episode. This was something that I really did like about the episode as it reminds us that some of the actors and actress that star in horror films can also be some genuinely really good actors and that's something that sadly not alot of people are going to see as alot of the mainstream audiences won't watch their movies for various reasons be it because it's not being released into theaters or because it's not being released by a very well known studio and as such alot of them will miss out some truly good actors just blowing us all away with their performances.
The best way that I can describe this episode is that it's a cross between the TV show Blood Drive and the Mad Max film series only done on a really small budget. As there are alot of things in this episode that are very similar to things that appear in Blood Drive and heck even Robert Englund's MC character is very similar to The MC character in Blood Drive even down to them being very charismatic characters that have a dark secret and I have to wonder if Blood Drive was at the very least partially inspired by this episode as the things that are similar are just to much of a coincidence for them not to be done on purpose but if your going to be inspired by anything then you might as well be inspired by something that Tobe Hooper directed.
According to Dread Central this episode is Tobe Hooper at his best and on that I have to respectfully disagree. As this episode is just flat boring and uninspired and while yes the episode is very well directed to say that this is Hooper at his best when it's quite clearly not just isn't right especially since the director himself hasn't really made anything that's him just let loose since Texas Chainsaw Massacre just isn't right as this episode is a sign of Tobe Hooper needing to slow things down as he's just not able to make this episodes script work anymore which is something that the Tobe Hooper of the seventies ad the eighties would have been able to do and not only that he would have made a feature length film and a good film at that.
This episode is written by Richard Christian Matheson and is based of off the short story by his own father Richard Matheson. This seems like an episode that reads better as a short story as then you have however many pages you need to tell the story where as here you only have one hour to tell the exact same story and because of that alot of things do suffer because of it like the fact that all of the episodes characters aren't fully developed at all with all of the characters coming across as being very one dimensional which doesn't make them interesting characters with this this not really being helped by the fact that none of the episodes characters are likable both of these tho are issues that may or may not be fixed in the original short story.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty eight minuets and forty seconds. Which both works for and against this episode it works for this episode as the episode doesn't really have alot of plot to over that large amount of running time to begin with but it works against the film as it means that the characters can't be fully developed and a threat can't be fully established as the episode has to rush along to the next plot point but it does so with such bad editing that all it does is leave us the audience wondering what's even going on on screen which is something that really should have been fixed but I will admit that this episode does have some fairly solid pacing to it tho.
So now then as this i a horror show that means that I ave tom actually talk about he actual scares that are actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual scares that are actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really bad. With this episode not really being scary in the slightest which shouldn't be the case at all as the episodes director knows how to scare people and he knows how to make things scary and yet for this episode he just doesn't bother to make anything scary and heck there's not even a jump scare in this episode because that's how lacking this episode is in the scare department in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while on paper this episode should have worked as it does have alot of things that should have made it work for one reason or another this episode just doesn't work at all in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode i this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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