Apparently because of sputtering demand and profits, Full Moon really went cheap for several years in the late 1990's and early 2000's.
Many productions were made for only 5 figures not even 6 and far away from 7 figures during this time.
Everything seems to be affected and suffers from these very low budgets compared to what we were used to from the early 90's.
There are 6 total actors/actresses in this movie besides a couple of zombies uncredited with only a short amount of screen time.
Many were very unknown / first timers and generally the acting under those conditions and amount of experience wasn't that bad for the most part and hardly some of the worst problems with this movie.
Some were actually a bit likable, all the actresses are cute.
The movie was apparently shot in only 4 days so it seems many shots were possibly one take and what they got out of the shot is what they got, if something was screwed up they tried quick editing or had to leave some flaws in.
The special effects and the totem creatures are very mixed from adequate to pretty poor. A couple of the supposed attacks with the totems towards the end are pretty painful to watch they are so amateur. Supposedly some gore scenes had to be trimmed down to get an R rating, but there isn't much left for blood and gore, so that seems kind of hard to believe.
Watch for the grave zombies with a grotesque / rotted face and fairly normal hands and legs for a laugh.
The movie is maybe mercifully short as it runs from beginning to start of the end credits at 61 min. With 2 min. Of that a 1958 movie called The Vikings edited in towards the end as an untimely "dream sequence". Another 7 minutes of end credits roll and you have a 68 min. Cheapie from Full Moon and David Decoteau in the can.
Many productions were made for only 5 figures not even 6 and far away from 7 figures during this time.
Everything seems to be affected and suffers from these very low budgets compared to what we were used to from the early 90's.
There are 6 total actors/actresses in this movie besides a couple of zombies uncredited with only a short amount of screen time.
Many were very unknown / first timers and generally the acting under those conditions and amount of experience wasn't that bad for the most part and hardly some of the worst problems with this movie.
Some were actually a bit likable, all the actresses are cute.
The movie was apparently shot in only 4 days so it seems many shots were possibly one take and what they got out of the shot is what they got, if something was screwed up they tried quick editing or had to leave some flaws in.
The special effects and the totem creatures are very mixed from adequate to pretty poor. A couple of the supposed attacks with the totems towards the end are pretty painful to watch they are so amateur. Supposedly some gore scenes had to be trimmed down to get an R rating, but there isn't much left for blood and gore, so that seems kind of hard to believe.
Watch for the grave zombies with a grotesque / rotted face and fairly normal hands and legs for a laugh.
The movie is maybe mercifully short as it runs from beginning to start of the end credits at 61 min. With 2 min. Of that a 1958 movie called The Vikings edited in towards the end as an untimely "dream sequence". Another 7 minutes of end credits roll and you have a 68 min. Cheapie from Full Moon and David Decoteau in the can.