All Souls Day
by Jeremy Kasten
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Actor: Jesse Jam Miranda, Laz Alonso, Marisa Ramirez, Nichole Hiltz, Travis WesterDirector: Jeremy Kasten
Producer: Chuck Speed
Producer: Danny Wayne
Producer: Dennis Sugasawara
Producer: John W. Hyde
Producer: Mark A. Altman
Writer: Mark A. Altman
Producer: Mark Gottwald
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of All Souls Day
Movie Review: A Very Convoluted Zombie Holiday
Summary: 2 Stars
It's 1892 in the remote Mexican village Santa Bonita. So remote, in fact, that English is commonly spoken there. An Aztec temple has been unearthed and town bad guy Vargas Diaz, played by why-am-I-always-a-bad-guy Danny Trejo, executes his sinister plan to take all the treasures for himself. Fast forward to October 1952. While vacationing, the White family stumbles upon the village and decides to spend the night in a no-named hotel there. The father (Jeffrey Combs) takes charge and checks the family in himself, despite the fact that there seems to be nobody running the place...despite the last person to sign the register being 5 years ago...and despite momma White (Ellie Cornell) overseeing a woman cleaning up what looks to be blood on the floor. Stop right there. Hold up. I'm sorry, I draw the line on pools of blood on the floor. Even stains of blood are a big no-no. Just walk out, people! I'm sure there's a La Quinta Inn somewhere down the road.
Their complete disregard for common sense ends badly for the family, but not before young polio-stricken son Ricky (Noah Luke) gets an earful of gibberish from an old hag-lady, and daughter Lily White (yes, that's really her name) shows off her lilly white...assets. Fast forward (AGAIN!) 53 years later. College couple Alicia (smokin' hot Marisa Ramirez) and her fast-talking spaz of a boyfriend Joss (Travis Wester), who's got to be on speed, are traveling to Alicia's parents' house. They're delayed after swerving through a crowd of people, overturning a coffin with a naked, tongueless girl inside, and running into a feeble-looking fence, which is enough to put Joss' piece of junk car out of commission right near the very no-named hotel we've seen previously. In an obvious attempt to gather some zombie fodder, two of the couple's friends, Erica and Tyler, drive down from the OC to meet them.
That's the overly inflated setup (which took two long paragraphs to describe) for an essentially simple concept with characters who look hot, but never really develop into anything. Not only do they not develop into much, their actions often are neither plausible nor genuine. The Joss character rarely ceases to annoy. Erica out of nowhere does some kind of crazy backflip onto the roof. Tyler, with a chance to escape the hotel, inexplicably chooses not the undead-free driver's side of the getaway car, but the zombie laden passenger side. And upon being attacked he yells out like a girl, "Put me down!" Oh...the horror...make it stop. It's a shame, because while the characters aren't the greatest, they're all acted out rather decently. Though, David Keith, Danny Trejo and the re-animator Jeffrey Combs are completely underused talents.
It's a bloated story with a little action, no real scares, and some talented actors that are off camera too much. Despite the decent production values and some decent-looking zombies, it's not quite a decent movie.
Summary of All Souls Day
In 1892, Vargas Diaz, a murderous greedy villain, looted an Aztec tomb belonging to the goddess of death located in the town of Santa Bonita, Mexico. The many that died at Diaz's hands cannot rest and continually demand human sacrifices. Today the town of Santa Bonita is a ghost town, and those who stumble upon the village never leave. A young couple, Joss and Alicia, are unfortunate enough to get stranded there and discover the town's secret history. The only way to save themselves and let the dead rest lies with Diaz himself, but there's no earthly way he could still be living today.Horror DVD Video
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