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With: Jessica Lowndes, Robert Englund, Jonathan Tucker, Marilyn Norry, Ryan McDonald, Lucie Guest
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Written by: Richard Christian Matheson, based on a short story by Richard Matheson
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Directed by: Tobe Hooper
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Running Time: 59
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Date: 11/11/2005
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Masters of Horror: Dance of the Dead (2005)
No Fuss, No Muss
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Based on a 1954 short story by the late, great Richard Matheson — and adapted by his son Richard Christian Matheson — this Tobe Hooper-directed episode of the "Masters of Horror" series is, for the most part, a disappointment. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, where Peggy (Jessica Lowndes) works in a lonely diner with her mom (Marilyn Norry), her father and sister lost to some nasty biological weapon. Three punks — who have been stealing blood to sell — visit the diner, and the naive teen is drawn to the bad-boy Jak (Jonathan Tucker). He coaxes her to sneak out, and they go to the Doom Room, a club where patrons watch zombie-like beings "dance." A scene-stealing Robert Englund is the MC there. There's kind of a twist ending, but this one feels a bit long, and Hooper unfortunately decided on a strange, twitchy visual style that is just headache-inducing. And while Lowndes is certainly beautiful, she somehow performs the entire thing with her mouth hanging open. Billy Corgan of the band Smashing Pumpkins provided the score.
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