The Dead List Delivers – Movie Review
The Dead List, a horror anthology release from High Octane pictures out this May, is a rickety roller coaster ride of low-budget terror, that straps the viewer in for high-concept Hollywood nightmare fuel. The twisted minds of writer/director Holden Andrews and his collaborators pay homage to classic horror of the 80’s and 90’s, while upping the fear factor with their own brand of scares. For fans of the Tales From The Darkside or the 1982 George Romero/Steven King collaboration, Creepshow, The Dead List will bring you back to those gleefully gross vignettes while leaving out the stylized comic book motif. A book does play a central role in the plot however, as the names of the film’s ill-fated victims are scrawled onto the pages of The Dead List. A violent, but unrelated death of a nameless woman by an unseen roaring entity at a community park opens the film and does not bode well for the investment that The Dead List hopes to garner from the audience. If I’m being
