{"id":118,"date":"2006-10-03T13:33:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/118"},"modified":"2009-09-11T16:27:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T20:27:35","slug":"dance-of-the-dead-2005-tobe-hooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/118","title":{"rendered":"Dance of the Dead (2005, Tobe Hooper)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty awful Masters of Horror episode, continuing Tobe&#8217;s long streak of pretty awful movies.<\/p>\n<p>A perfectly good backstory about the deadly acid rainstorm that turned most of the world into zombies is wasted on a crappy movie about Jessica Lowndes meeting Jonathan Tucker from the <em>Pulse<\/em> and <em>Texas Chainsaw<\/em> remakes, and daring to venture away from her protective mother to attend a club run by Tobe&#8217;s old bud Robert Englund.  This has got to be the most boring &#8220;extreme&#8221; nightclub in any horror movie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/danceofthedead1.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all downhill from there, as Englund drinks the blood of the elderly to stay alive, and the entertainment of the club turns out to be watching zombies &#8220;dance&#8221; (the, um, dance of the dead) by shocking &#8217;em with cattle prods.  Jessica finds out one of the dancers is her druggie sister, who was sold to Englund by their mom&#8230; gets revenge by killing\/selling the mom.  Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was bad enough before the SHOCK EDITING, which is unrelenting.  Besides the usual quick-cut-crap, they keep blurring and sliding the picture with staticky sound effects to add &#8220;energy&#8221; to the movie.  Ugh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/danceofthedead2.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/danceofthedead3.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Loud music by Billy Corgan, I might add.  Credited cinematographer and editor have both done other (decent) MoH episodes, so I have to blame the flash editing entirely on you, Tobe.<\/p>\n<p>MOH trademarks: just the naked women.<\/p>\n<p>Katy didn&#8217;t watch this one.  Katy wouldn&#8217;t have liked it.  I wouldn&#8217;t have blamed her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty awful Masters of Horror episode, continuing Tobe&#8217;s long streak of pretty awful movies. A perfectly good backstory about the deadly acid rainstorm that turned most of the world into zombies is wasted on a crappy movie about Jessica Lowndes meeting Jonathan Tucker from the Pulse and Texas Chainsaw remakes, and daring to venture away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[169,54,12,52,1271,100],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-awful","tag-horror","tag-masters-of-horror","tag-television","tag-tobe-hooper","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}