Curse Of The Blue Lights

Nope, not a film about cops pulling you over for speeding. This is a fab, stoopid, low budget regional horror clunker filmed in Colorado USA starring Brent Ritter and a squad of no-name teens that try real hard to remember their lines.

Yes they fail to do so, but that's ok coz they eventually team up with a scary witch (prop chewing Bettina Julius) who lives in a scary old house and they all battle a horde of fang-faced zombie ghouls who need a magical blue light 'ball' and medallion to complete a satanic ritual that'll allow them to reanimate a missing link monster called The Muldoon Man.

Written, edited, produced (as well as directed by) Johnson, it's cheap, quirky and often funny and the FX (by the Wizard FX Group) are neat looking and cleverly shot to hide the obvious lack of pennies available to them. A fair chunk of the groups antics and dialogue are straight rips from Scooby Doo, but far from being cheezy, they lend the lightweight feature a naive, pre-CGI, rubbery blood 'n' guts charm—tho be warned, it'll be not much fun if you don't dig spookhouse-ham.