What can I even begin to tell you about this movie? There goes 84 minutes of my life that I'll never see again! There happens to be a fine line between good horror and pure crap. This movie blew past that line all the while doing about a hundred and forty miles an hour. I'm almost embarrassed to tell people I saw this movie!

Here's the part of my review where I would tell you what this movie is all about which I'd really love to do and would if I had half a clue myself!

William (Michael Carr) and Luke (Russell Friedenberg) are traveling through California and they decide to hitch a ride with Mike (Christopher Kriesa). Mike is not the most stable guy in the world. Did I mention that hitch hiking isn't the greatest idea in this day and age either. Don't try this at home, kids!

As it turns out, a man named Togaio (Matthias Hues) is building a legion of dead soldiers (get it? legion of the dead?). Unfortunately, he's got two of the biggest idiots I've ever seen doing the recruiting for him. The army they're building couldn't take over a nursing home filled with catatonics let alone wipe out an ancient race. Somehow you start to get the idea that they're after this girl named Geena (Kimberly Liebe) but you really have no idea why until the last twenty minutes of the movie.

Don't forget our fearless heroes William and Luke! I wonder what they're up to? I would have paid double just to see them killed off in the first ten minutes of the film. The movie then rambles on and on and there doesn't seem to be much connecting the scenes with each other. Was it really only 84 minutes?

Do you get the idea that this movie wasn't really my cup of tea? Don't get me wrong, there were things I did like about it, though. They used a mix of digital graphics and make up for the effects and you can tell they spent a good amount of time on it as well. They had a the characters morph into the monsters and it was really kind of cool from a visual standpoint. The rest of the special effects left a lot to be desired. You couldn't see half of the action sequences and It looked like the camera kept showing up just a bit too late. What did they do? Pay the camera crew in Quaaludes?

There was also a good amount of comic relief as well and I can certainly live with that. I tend to like campy horror from time to time. The rest of the writing seemed a bit unplanned and the actors didn't carry it off well at all. The dialog didn't flow from line to line and scene to scene and there was a healthy dose of dialog that was meant to be funny but just didn't fit in with the movie at all. Unfortunately the actors just couldn't pull the jokes off.

Most importantly... Where was the storyline? How about a plot? Even a simple one would have been better than what we were given. Towards the end of the movie they introduce a bunch of characters for the sole purpose of an increased body count. I'm for a high body count, myself, but come on! In my opinion they didn't kill nearly enough people in this movie! Maybe I'd feel better if they started to pick off the crew on camera one by one.

The picture quality was great, with a clear and sharp image throughout the whole movie. The sound was done well, too and it stayed pretty stable with clear dialog especially when the soundtrack was playing in the background. The soundtrack was a mix of different music types and It ranges from the almost silly to your run of the mill action score. It wasn't half bad, it seemed to fit appropriately with the scenes and really didn't get in the way.

The special features include: The making of Legion of the Dead, Deleted Scenes, Director and cast filmographies, and a photo gallery. The special features were the best part of the disc (and that's saying a lot!). Having watched the making of the movie, I would've though that I'd look forward to seeing the movie itself. You can see they put in a lot of effort and time on this. If I hadn't seen the movie already, it would have looked pretty good from the behind the scenes footage. The deleted scenes explain the extra characters at the end of the film but that certainly doesn't help you if you rented this on VHS! (poor unfortunate souls)

Maybe I missed something with this movie. The filmmakers tried to do a mix of Fantasy, Comedy, and Horror and I usually like the Comedy/Horror mix. It can be done well with just a little effort and some good writing to help back it up. I'd recommend a pass on this one. It was almost to painful to watch.