Greg Travis Movies
A typical family burial ceremony turns into a life-or-death struggle with the living dead as the corpses of the recently deceased rise from their graves to feast on the flesh of the living in a three-dimensional remake of the George A. Romero classic. Barbara (Brianna Brown) and her brother Johnny (Ken Ward) have arrived at the cemetery to attend the burial of their beloved aunt, but their grieving is soon interrupted by the appearance of a menacing cannibalistic corpse with an exceptionally hearty appetite. After fleeing the cemetery in terror, Barbara is soon rescued by local college student Ben (Joshua DesRoches), and the pair quickly seeks refuge in Henry Cooper's (Greg Travis) nearby farmhouse. Though the prospect of becoming lunch for the living dead immediately prompts the frightened country-dwellers to board up the remote farmhouse until they can formulate an effective plan for escape, Barbara soon finds that the zombies outside may be the least of her worries when she uncovers the sinister secret of malevolent mortician Gerald Tovar Jr. (Sid Haig). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brianna Brown, Joshua DesRoches, (more)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper returns to his rightful place behind the camera to weave this gruesome tale concerning an abandoned small-town funeral home with a dark and deadly secret. Local legend has it that the Fowler Funeral Home in Santa Loraina, CA, is plagued with death of the most unnatural kind. Rumored to have been purchased to launch a ranching business by Zeb Fowler, the land was subsequently converted into a funeral home when the cattle all began dying of a mysterious and undiagnosed ailment. When Zeb and his wife gave birth to a hideously disfigured boy named Bobby soon thereafter, the story took a strange turn as the pair attempted to shelter their son by covering his face with a burial shroud. After young Bobby disappeared at the age of eight and his parents were found brutally murdered a decade later, rumors began to swirl around the community that Bobby may still be alive. Now single mother Leslie Doyle (Denise Crosby) has moved into the long-abandoned and hideously decrepit home with aspirations of restoring it and taking on the role of town mortician for the town of Santa Loraina, and, along with her children, Jonathon (Dan Byrd) and Jamie (Stephanie Patton), she is about to discover that some legends never die. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Tobe Hooper, who directed one of the truly iconic American horror films of the 1970s, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, offers his take on another well-remembered scare-fest of the era with this remake. Steve (Brent Roam) and Nell (Angela Bettis) are a young couple living in Los Angeles who are short on money -- she's just started work as a teacher, while he's a medical student doing his internship. They rent a flat in the Lusman Arms, a once beautiful but now decaying (and therefore affordable) apartment building managed by the sleazy Byron McLieb (Greg Travis), who tries to pass off the ramshackle accommodations as "charming" and "historic." Watching over the Lusman Arms beside Byron is Ned (Adam Gierasch), a greasy simpleton who serves as the building's handyman. Steve and Nell haven't been living at the Lusman especially long when she notices that a growing number of young women living in the building have been meeting a violent death, and with some help from good-hearted part-time actor "Jazz" Rooker (Rance Howard), she begins looking into the murders and makes some disturbing discoveries about both the building management and her fellow tenants. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, (more)
