ALL SOULS DAY

ALL SOULS DAY
By M. Jarvis

A guy and his girlfriend on a road trip to Mexico end up in the wrong town with the wrong kind of Dia de los Muertos celebration going on. Rather than promptly fleeing the scene, they stick around and invite some friends. Angry zombies of the the town’s former residents soon come a callin’

One of the latest offerings from CFQ’s indie horror production arm. While it does have good story set-up and some cool individual scenes, the film as a whole is rather uninspiring. Though you wouldn’t know it from watching the self-congratulatory “making of.” To hear these guys talk you think they had made Citizen Kane. People from CFQ should know better. But CFQ is not Cinefantastique anymore and the latest casualty of this is films like this which while not awful, should be miles better because the people making them should know better.

But I’ll be positive, the set-up is good and the production value is okay. Here’s hoping their future efforts blaze some new trails like their magazine once did.