It doesn’t help that The Gravedancers sounds like it was originally intended to be one of those stories in which a bunch of stupid teenagers do something stupid and are punished for it – only somewhere along the line, the main characters were turned into responsible adults in their mid-30s, which makes their utterly moronic actions even more difficult to fathom. This kind of faffing around is totally unnecessary and faintly embarrassing. Seriously, audiences are used to stories about ghosts now. It really doesn’t make sense, and isn’t how anyone would really act, plus, even more irritatingly, it’s a really complicated way of setting up a haunting that could have been done in a much more logical and sensible way. It contains some nonsense doggerel that says life’s for the living, and that they should dance on the graves of the dead … so they do. Allison wisely leaves them to it, so Harris and Kira get a bit touchy-feely, and then idiot Sid finds a mysterious card left on their friend’s grave. Their friend recently died in a car accident, and so, after getting drunk, they decide to go back to the graveyard to send him off properly. There’s Harris, his wife Allison, and his old college friends Kira and Sid, with whom his wife doesn’t get along (because she suspects, correctly, that there’s sexual tension between Harris and Kira, and because Sid is a cretin). The next scene introduces the characters we’re supposed to be interested in. Besides, it starred Dominic Purcell, who played a charisma-barren Dracula in Blade: Trinity, and Clare Kramer, who played Glory in season 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so there was at least some pedigree involved. Trust me) so I figured there was just a glimmer of hope that it’d turn out okay. The Gravedancers was included in the 8 Films To Die For Horrorfest 2006, alongside The Hamiltons, which was secretly fantastic (though if you’re planning to watch it, don’t read anything about it beforehand: just go in blind. However, any horror fan will tell you that sometimes even the least promising films turn out to be great. Warning signs abound: the slightly awkward and unlikely selection of names for the friends signals an uninspired writer who’s trying too hard the premise that, even when drunk, three people in mourning would go and dance on three separate gravestones is laughable and the selection of ghosts is just ridiculous – there’s obviously too much being shoved into one movie, and the presence of a rapist ghost in a film with this sort of low budget should set many, very loud alarm bells ringing. A female pianist and axe murderer haunts Harrir, Kira is haunted by a ruthless rapist and Sid a child pyromaniac.” A deadly curse is unleashed when Sid unwittingly reads a mysterious inscription and the friends dance on three graves. Seriously, would you pick up this movie? “Distraught by the funeral of an old friend, Harris, Kira and Sid make their way to his grave to drink and pay their final respects.
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Just looking at the plot synopsis for this movie should be enough to tip off most people that The Gravedancers is no masterpiece.
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