A group of friends play a prank on one of their mates when playing hide and seek in a cemetary. Things go too far, and the friend accidentally ends up dead, while another friend is imprisoned for causing the death of him. Five years later when the guy is released from prison, the group of friend gather to pay tribute to their deceased friend at the same cemetary. But what they find there is some masked killer who's seeking revenge.
I wasn't sure whether The Graveyard would turn out to be a bad flick or not, at first it actually seemed quite interesting. Unfortunately this turned out to be yet another low-budget crap-fest, with a totally unoriginal story, something that looked like a lame Friday the 13th rip-off, and plus that, no decent gore at all. Why spend time and effort making a flick like this in the first place? It has been done hundreds of times before, and it's just as boring each time we get to see yet another crappy clone.
A bunch of friends have gone to Camp Placid Pines, where I guess they are supposed to camp. Instead they find a cemetary right next to the camp, and starts messing around until one of the friends turn up dead. Five years later the same people show up at Camp Placid Pines to honour the memory of their deceased friend, but instead of having a nice time, they are all greeted by some killer wearing a mask, and who wants to rip them apart.
That's about all the story has to offer, except for the twist in the end that sucked so much I really wanted to throw something at the tv. Instead I threw the movie in the trash, which I think was the right thing to do. The lack of originality was overshadowing everything else this movie might had to offer. All the characters are pretty unlikable, some worse than others, and the actual acting's not that great. The killing scenes are horrible (not in a good way), and while the movie offers some typical slasher flick nudity, it's really not that exciting either.
The Graveyard is also packed with clichés, and while that sometimes can be a funny thing, here it doesn't work at all. It has all these little things many slasher flick has, and there are even lesbians getting killed(!). Even if this sounds funny or whatever, it's not, and everything just feels really poor. Other than that, the killer looks like shit wearing some stupid looking mask that looks more dumb than scary.
Been sitting through so many crappy flicks like this for way too long, and that just can't be good in the long run. It's sad to see yet another new horror flick turn out to be a total flop. I don't really wanna complain, but honestly, there's nothing else to do since this movie didn't hardly have one decent thing to offer.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Michael Feifer
WRITING CREDITS: Michael Hurst
GENRE: Horror, Slasher
CAST: Lindsay Ballew, Sam Bologna, Trish Coren
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 93 min
RATING: 1/10
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