THE CHILLING
THE STORY: The story begins with Mr. Joseph Davenport arranging for his wife to be frozen at Dr. Miller's Universal Cryogenics. While there he takes a shine to Miller's assistant, Mary Hampton (Linda Blair!). Unbeknownst to anyone, Miller and his flunky, Jerry, are harvesting organs from the bodies and selling them off before freezing them. SIX MONTHS later, Davenports' son Joe is killed while robbing a bank. Davenport has him frozen too. This time he gets pretty close with Mary, who shares her problems of her drunken live-in boyfriend with him. (Bear with me...the first half of this movie is sloooow!) Next we meet Vince, (Dan Haggerty from Grizzly Adams) the security guard at Universal and his assistant, Mark. Its halloween night. A thunderstorm occurs and strikes the generators, knocking the power out. In order to keep the cryo- tubes cold, Vince and Mark move them outside. (its cooler, Vince says!...hey, I didn't write this movie!) Lightning strikes the containers and the frozen stiffs inside turn into zombies and go on a very small rampage. The zombies, who are outside the building, break back into the facility, killing Mark. Meanwhile, Mary and Davenport returning from dinner find out about the power outage and go back to Universal Cryogenics. They discover Miller's organ harvesting just as Miller arrives. The zombies attack them before Miller can kill them. Mary's drunk boyfriend arrives, thinking Mary is having an affair with Davenport. Mary, Davenport and Vince fight off the zombies and meet up with Jerry, who gives a lame ass reason for the zombies coming to life, and how liquid nitrogen can stop them. Vince uses the liquid nitrogen on them but they unfreeze quickly. Fortunately, after a long while, lightning strikes the building burning it and the zombies. The end...or is it? (The ending credits say that the zombies are living underground in the sewers and that Mary and Davenport got married, etc.)
Ow! This movie was hard to watch! The first forty minutes moved like pond water!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?:
1.) Whoa! During the bank robbery, one of the thugs has a hostage and the cops still fire on him!...and nail him right in the head! They must have "he needed killin'" law in Kansas City!
2.) Discussing his son's death, Davenport says he wasn't the same after returning from Vietnam! What? His son looks like he's thirty years old tops, and this movie was made in 1991!
3.) They really should have pepped this flick up! I almost had to shave again waiting for something to happen!
4.) Ok, let me get this right...Vince wants to move the containers outside in the storm because its cooler? Cooler than liquid nitrogen?
5.) Davenport and Mary go out for pizza. its around eight or so. Its after midnight when he takes her home! Maybe her drunk boyfriend should be pissed off!
6.) A cryogenic facility with no emergency backup power...yeah, I'll leave my loved ones there.
NUDITY AND SEX: A real fast boob shot which is the only thing interesting in the first half of this flick.
HUH?: Vince and Davenport catch Jerry in the facility while being chased by zombies. What the hell was he doing there? Its about 2 AM!
Its established that its after midnight. Its been established that trick or treating has been cancelled because of the storm. Yet a group of twelve year olds show up at Mary's house!
Vince, Mary and Davenport rush to the car and drive for ten feet then get out and run back in the building! During the whole ordeal no one thinks about running outside and heading for the hills!
Davenport is a rich guy and he has a limo. the driver waited outside duringf the entire night. I wonder why A.) They didn't all get in the limo and haul ass B.) What the driver was doing when all these zombies were running around. (well, we find out in the end...oh, you'll have to rent it!)
THE TALLY: I've seen it before, but maybe its true....Mary's boyfriend is a total loser, but Mary is pretty, dresses well and kind of cultured. Why would someone like that have an unemployed drunkard as a boyfriend? Just a question. Quite a few times in this movie you get the message that cryogenic freezing is against God's will. I think some religious organization must've helped to fund it or something. Also, you see a few of the cryo-tubes during the first few minutes with nameplates that read "W.Disney", T. Roosevelt", and "M. Jackson." With a little more effort this movie could've gotten a better score but the slow ass parts really made it like walking on broken glass barefoot!