Evil's City

Brandon Largent, Laura Mazur. Lazarus Film Partners, 2004. Written, produced, directed by Tom Lewis.

What I like about B-movies is that they're usually free of many conceits, and sometimes can lead to creative takes on old genres. However, sometimes they can be ponderous in their own way, and it's evident in this film that Tom Lewis (and since he wears three hats in this one, this is HIS baby!) really needed an editor, both in writing and editing.

But let's keep with the good - The good elements of this movie are:

The idea of the town, Acheron, being itself an evil force.
The guy with the Australian accent as a Charon-figure.
and, the ending, which I will have to spoil for you in the following paragraph, so stop reading if you don't want it spoiled . . .

the twist ending, in which several of the characters fighting the undead townsfolk for their lives had, in fact, been dead themselves for most of the movie. It's the same twist that hit me in Sixth Sense, and to be truthful, I hadn't anticipated that at all in this movie. With the revelation came some flashblacks which were very well done, edited very well, which belied a talent that had not been evident in the rest of the film.

VG