![]() And his father is made aware, relatively soon after his arrival, that their son is not quite all there anymore. But Andy is not quite right in the head and in the body. Everyone wants to see Andy's return, even the neighborhood kids, who've already constructed tales about his epic survival over death. The film is family-locked tale of terror that ricochets through the community with fierce consequences. Andy (Richard Backus) has come home, but he needs blood in order to slow the decay of his very dead flesh … and so begins his murderous rampage through their small town. They were told that he had been killed in service to his country, but his mother prayed for his safe return. You see, they weren’t expecting him home at all. Jacobs yet – thanks to a couple of great performances from Academy Award nominees John Marley ( The Godfather) and Lynn Carlin ( Faces) and awesome makeup effects from gore guru Tom Savini (in his debut) – the b-movie smokes its originator in the fear element as a fallen soldier returns home to his grieving family, only to scare the shit out of what remains of their frail nerves. It draws its main inspiration from a short story, “The Monkey’s Paw”, by W. Finally arriving on blu-ray, thanks to Blue Underground’s efforts, Deathdream is allowed the chance to get the recognition from Horror Hounds that it rightly deserves. Deathdream is finally unleashed in HD, thanks to a full restoration from a long thought lost original negative, and the results – highlighting Clark’s knack for creating suspense from unsettling camera angles – couldn’t be more fantastic.įrom Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things to Black Christmas, the middle child – Deathdream aka Dead of Night, The Night Andy Came Home, and The Night Walk – is the one that most commonly gets ignored. It is, in fact, the debut for this film in sparkling Blu-ray. With this review, though, we are honoring Clark’s efforts for one film alone. ![]() They are all, in their own unique way, certifiable standouts in the genre.Įven if he never did A Christmas Story or Porky’s, he’d still have a three-film legacy of horror to be remembered for. As a result, his work in the genre remains highly influential. The first three films he completed solidified his standing among Horror’s Elite – even if the rest of the world is only recently realizing this. Suddenly, thanks to this expert shift in POV, we become the dead.ĭirector Bob Clark was a visionary director of horror. The lights travel halfway through the screen before the scene completely shifts and we are standing on the side of the road, just waiting to be picked up. While a family grieves over the unexpected news that their son won’t be returning home from the war, a rocking chair-bound figure prays for safe passage and two headlights cut through the darkness of the room. If the explosive opening of Deathdream, in which a young soldier meets his untimely end, doesn’t blow you out of your seat, there’s another chance nine minutes later.
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