My daughter begged me to get this at the Redbox after watching the trailer online.
Even the trailer gave me pause, and with good reason, it turns out. I should have not let her persuade me to get her this appalling movie.
So here's the story:
Tweenage girl has tweenage girl troubles and wishes she was dead.
Pow! Lightning hits a tree and a huge limb crushes her to death.
Just so you're absolutely clear on this: YOUR CHILD WILL WATCH A GIRL BE CRUSHED TO DEATH BY A TREE LIMB.
Oh, and to make it more disturbing, it's established early on that her father is a mortician, so the plot strongly suggests he embalmed his own daughter.
Well, now. No worries, though, because instead of actually being dead, she rises from a stone tomb as some sort of not-dead, half-skeleton zombie, and joins a ragtag pair of other zombies to escape some satanic villain and open a magical portal which will transport them back to the moment before they were killed.
Because death isn't permanent, see? You can wish you were dead, die, then come back to your folks all sorry about it through some magical portal. Great lesson to teach our bullied young children, don't you think?
Bah! In little more than an hour, this poorly animated film with perhaps the most wretched storyline anyone's ever dreamed up accomplishes thus:
-- It teaches your troubled young girls death is the answer to their growing pains.
-- Bullied in life? There's friends on the other side who understand your problems!
-- And everything's gonna be OK anyway, because you can come back through a portal, just like this girl and her friends!
-- So go ahead and die! It's fun!
This is a horrid movie, with a horrid story, containing horrid lessons. Only horrid people would create and release a film like this for children, and I'm a horrid dad for letting my child watch it.
Learn from my mistake. Let this "zombie" rot at the Redbox.
Even the trailer gave me pause, and with good reason, it turns out. I should have not let her persuade me to get her this appalling movie.
So here's the story:
Tweenage girl has tweenage girl troubles and wishes she was dead.
Pow! Lightning hits a tree and a huge limb crushes her to death.
Just so you're absolutely clear on this: YOUR CHILD WILL WATCH A GIRL BE CRUSHED TO DEATH BY A TREE LIMB.
Oh, and to make it more disturbing, it's established early on that her father is a mortician, so the plot strongly suggests he embalmed his own daughter.
Well, now. No worries, though, because instead of actually being dead, she rises from a stone tomb as some sort of not-dead, half-skeleton zombie, and joins a ragtag pair of other zombies to escape some satanic villain and open a magical portal which will transport them back to the moment before they were killed.
Because death isn't permanent, see? You can wish you were dead, die, then come back to your folks all sorry about it through some magical portal. Great lesson to teach our bullied young children, don't you think?
Bah! In little more than an hour, this poorly animated film with perhaps the most wretched storyline anyone's ever dreamed up accomplishes thus:
-- It teaches your troubled young girls death is the answer to their growing pains.
-- Bullied in life? There's friends on the other side who understand your problems!
-- And everything's gonna be OK anyway, because you can come back through a portal, just like this girl and her friends!
-- So go ahead and die! It's fun!
This is a horrid movie, with a horrid story, containing horrid lessons. Only horrid people would create and release a film like this for children, and I'm a horrid dad for letting my child watch it.
Learn from my mistake. Let this "zombie" rot at the Redbox.