Starring: Lori Huering, Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloe Moretz, Geoffrey Lewis

Rated: R (violence and gore, language, teen drug and alcohol use).

My Rating: 2.5/5

This is the second movie I have viewed from the After Dark Horrorfest. Although the two movies I have watched from the collection so far are only mediocre, I have taken a new interest in it. The horrorfest presents viewers with 8 lower budget horror films and opens them in selected theaters for one week only.

This movie revolves around a mother and her two daughters. They move into the deceased husband's house up in the hills of an old town. It presents nothing we haven't already seen before. They arrive at the creepy home, and they don't really want to stay there, but they do anyways. You know the drill. Then more sinister things begin to happen. The youngest daughter makes a new friend named Mary, who is actually a ghost. Or is she a zombie? The movie isn't very clear on that. Turns out that the area is haunted by a bunch of other children as well, who were buried alive in a mine long ago. The "zombies" come out at night to seek revenge, eating anything in sight.

If the zombies were supposed to be scary, they failed. The makeup looked poorly done. Almost like something I could do myself. They probably would have had a better movie had they just gone with pale ghost children instead of zombies. The whole movie didn't even feel like a zombie flick. In my opinion, it wasn't. It had a more supernatural ghost feel to it, so that is why I don't think the whole zombie thing mixed well.

Overall, the movie had potential to be better. It wasn't completely awful, but it's only really worth a rent if you are a die hard horror fan like I am, or if you can't find anything better.