Horror Queen

See what happens when we fight?

PLOT

Blizz was a nuclear attack weapon created by terrorists who somehow managed to incorporate it with the rain patterns all across the US. When it touches living skin or tissue, it instantly kills the person and poor little Peggy sees her entire seventh birthday party guests wiped out by it. It then jumps ten years down the road where we learn that 9 million have died and Los Angeles and other larger cities are completely gone. Peggy now lives in her mother Kate’s diner where she acts like a nine year old. She meets a few junkies traveling in a group and goes with them to the Doom Room, a kind of underground bar/strip club/junkie haven. She learns that the MC of the club has found victims of Blizz, filled them with blood and made them dance. She knows this because her presumed dead sister Anna is one of the dancers. As she struggles to save her sister, she learns just how she became a dancer…

TRIVIA

Directed by Tobe Hooper of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame and based on a short story by legendary author Richard Matheson. His son actually wrote the screenplay.

Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger) has a major role in this episode.

The third episode in the first season of Masters of Horror.

THOUGHTS

I’m actually not a big fan of Dance of the Dead, despite the fact that I really love Tobe Hooper and I liked many of the Masters of Horror episodes from the first season. This one though was just kind of boring. Given the plot of the movie, it really should have been a lot better and I think it could have been better. There were some great scenes in the movie and it has a nice little twist ending (which you’ll probably see coming a mile away), but it just wasn’t enough for me. Even Robert Englund couldn’t get me interested in the movie.

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