Let's Dance!

Dance of the Dead (Masters of Horror, 2005)
Director- Tobe Hooper
Starring- Jonathan Tucker, Jessica Lowndes, Robert Englund

Peggy (Lowndes) works for her mother in a diner in a post-apocalyptic society. Since her sister died, her mother had become very overprotective and very bitter. A couple young punks show up wanting burgers and coffee, and while her mother practically shoves them out of the door, Peggy feels a strong attraction to one of the punks, named Jak (Tucker).

Later that night, Jak shows up and invites Peggy to a party out of town at the Doom Room. Peggy sneaks out and they go to the Doom Room, where Jak and his buddy sell "The M.C." (Englund) blood, which he injects into corpses and reanimates them to dance for an audience.

While there, Peggy discovers that one of the dancers is noneother than her own sister, who she thought was dead. She grabs her, and she & Jak exit the club quickly. The M.C. catches up with them just as Peggy's mom finds her, and Peggy finds out that her mom sold her sister (before she died, in fact) to The M.C. In a fit of disgusted rage, she gives her mom to The M.C., then gives her sister proper burial.

For a Masters of Horror flick, this isn't half bad. I didn't care for Ryan McDonald's acting, personally, but the plot moved along pretty well. Englund always provides a slightly creepy character, he didn't disappoint. The ending was predictable, but not bad.

Rating: 3.5/5 Bonedaddies.