This is a good example of a pre-found-footage era horror movie that has a slim cast/budget but is still able to succeed. While the ambition and carnage of the movie are pretty admirable, the jagged flow of the plot – which always feels like it is being interrupted – is for sure the worst part. Tall Man takes a while to get started and the whole movie is punctuated with lengthy and disjointed dream sequences. The Tall Man speed-walks a lot and scowls. There is some fun gore and a car chase with guns.
This is winds up being more goofy than Lost Boys but less goofy than Monster Squad. One of the small-town teens uncovers The Tall Man’s corpse/slave reanimation racket and, with the help of a still-animated severed finger, gets his older brother on board in an all-out war against The Tall Man. I don’t know if it’s more twisted than it is considerate, but it is mildly unsettling.
While in this form, the Tall Man will bang said victims, BRINGING THEM TO FULL CLIMAX before abruptly killing them as they rest, exhausted in a post-coital daze. Let’s talk about the shapeshifting for a second because I find this interesting: The Tall Man can use his powers to turn into a gorgeous blonde chick with a giant rack, a tactic he uses in order to seduce victims. He looks spooky he is an old guy who looks really German and he wears a too-small suit and platform lifts so he looks like a lanky, but efficient, killing machine. The undertaker, a tall man known as The Tall Man, has an arsenal of alien powers and protections at his disposal including a flying stainless steel ball that drills holes in skulls, an army of reanimated corpses, a healing factor that allows him to regenerate limbs, and the ability to shapeshift. You get to see the slave labor for a second and it looks fucking stupid the slaves look like Jawas dragging a bunch of blocks around this red tundra. This movie is about some small-town kids who figure out that the local undertaker is an alien from another dimension who harvests corpses which he reanimates as truncated slaves to be shipped off to his homeworld as slave labor. I mean, what were you doing when you were 22, besides playing Nintendo at your mom’s house while you were waiting for the Pizza Rolls to warm up in the microwave? See it.ĭid you know that guy who directed this movie also filmed it, edited it, and raised all the money for the budget… when he was 22? Think about that before you criticize this film. The characters and acting are a lot of fun. It isn’t very scary, but there is some grotesque make-up and a fun story here. They cobble together some guns and medical supplies and go snooping around only to uncover a conspiracy that involves a Cthulhu-type demonic force who wants to open a portal and turn the whole population into exploding people. The characters who haven’t turned into people-volcanos yet notice that the hospital is weirdly expanding into a labyrinth of secret passages and tunnels and fog (OMG is this another Carpenter reference?). The people who aren’t monsters yet can’t go outside because (like in Prince and Assault ) there’s an army of cult members with shanks. They are then controlled by the villain who uses them to slaughter whoever is standing around. Characters turn into hulking distortions of themselves that sort of look like the dog-Things from The Thing. The demonic eruptions are awesome and involve minimal computer effects.
It has the sort of isolation, paranoia, and practical effects that people (like me) love about The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and Assault on Precinct 13.Ī cult traps a band of characters in a hospital where they have to figure out who among them is in cahoots with the Lovecraftian entity that keeps making characters explode into gushers of gore and bone. The Void is about a pretentious jagoff who channels the destructive life-force of an interdimensional entity which he uses to terrorize a handful of expendable characters in a hospital. This is not as good as a John Carpenter movie, but it is totally made for people who like John Carpenter movies by people who like John Carpenter movies.