Written by Scott Edwards What a wonderful world it would be if you could take a vacation for as long as you wanted to. To get your mind right and be able to accomplish everything that you ever dreamed of. Alas, the sad reality of things is that it costs so much to do these things, even to take a road trip and find a place to lay your head. But getting away from the job for at least a week is good for the mind and body, so at least most people are able to work that into their busy schedules, if only to get some rest. Trying to get his little brother away from real life for a little bit, Josh is more than happy to pick on him as well. Even though Mike knows that Josh is having a good time at his expense, he still does not want to get too out of control, but when Josh decides to drive with his eyes closed, the two find out that they are on a trip that they will never forget. Almost crashing into a couple of the locals, the two find themselves being run down by a gang of rednecks and crash their car in the local stream. Needing to get their car out, the two start making their way to town, only to find out that it is just as backwards as the roads. Trying to get the attention of a local man stumbling out of the bar, Mike follows him in to the back alley and sees that the man is dead. Needing to get help, Mike and Josh head into the bar where they find their old friends from the drive into town drinking and looking for a fight. Being led by Albert, the group is ready to take a pound of flesh from the brothers, but when the Sheriff walks in, everything is put on the back burner for the night. Telling Sheriff Will what they found, the three head out to the back alley and find another man sleeping in the same place where Mike saw the dead body. Although the dead man is missing, Sheriff Will sees something strange on the ground and picks it up to have it checked out by his favorite doctor. Getting Mike’s wounds patched up from the fight, Josh and Mike are put up in an old woman’s house for the night but are ordered to leave as soon as they get their car fixed. Waking up late in the afternoon, Josh is shocked to see that his little brother has gone missing. Heading into town to try and get a tow truck to get his car out of the ditch, Josh sees that most of the businesses are shut down for some strange reason, but the bar is open, so he heads on in. Finding schoolteacher slash bartender Holly, Josh is starting to rethink his position on the town and is able to catch a ride to the other gas station that should be open, but the two have a quick stop to make at the school where screaming is heard down the hallways. Investigating what is going on, Josh makes his way down to the boiler room and finds a dead girl who falls on top of him. Not only that, but his old buddy Albert is in the room as well and ready for round two of the fight. While Sheriff Will is having problems around his little town, he is usually able to keep it under control, but something has changed. Finding out that the ooze that he found on the ground is a kind of blood that expands when it touches human blood is disconcerting, but now with finding the dead little girl in the school, he knows that something strange is happening. Thinking that Josh may have been involved with the girl’s death, he starts to keep an eye on the out of towner, but that might not be enough when all is said and done. Giving Doctor Myra a go at the dead girl’s body, he is hoping to find out what it eating at the residents of his town and hopefully put an end to it. But the findings are just too shocking for anyone to believe with a chemical reaction taking place in the human body that nobody can survive, yet they do, and require living blood to feed on. I typed in classic horror movies on my search prompt to find this gem and am happy that it came up. I am a huge fan of 80’s horror movies, mostly because they are so out there and, in my case, recognize a couple of actors/actresses that I have seen in bit roles down the road. This one (also known as Night Shadows) was no different, with a new breed of zombies that I do not remember, who have the power to burn and melt anything they touch with their hands. While I am still unclear why this power does not happen on the rest of the body, I will say that the changing of these people to zombies is different than anything I have seen before and I like that. The characters are fun in this movie, and while Josh seems to be the lead, the Sheriff really steals the show with his story of retribution and his love for Doctor Myra. Not really a lot of the standard red blood in this movie, but there is plenty of splatter, Molotov cocktails, blue skinned zombies and some toxic waste. Stay Scared.
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