Living Death (2006)

Living Death is a poorly done movie. The acting is okay, but thats about it.The suspense and horror part of it sucks though, and there isn't much to work with. The script just isn't that great, and it seems like it was thrown together within just a few days. It is basically your average, trashy B-movie. If you like anyone in the cast, sure, rent it, and if you like cheesy horror films then you will like it. With the exception of those things, its a movie you should skip. (my rating)Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and some drug content

I was really hoping this movie was gonna be better then it was.And the sound quality sucked.It was way too quiet and I had to turn the volume up high,and then without warning it got extremely loud and then quiet again. The description sounded good but the movie was too B rated for my taste.And what was with all the stupid gay remarks,this was unnecessary and wasn't funny.The script sucks whoever wrote it.I especially hated the ending.I was angry Elizabeth (the wife) didn't die.I read that Victor was supposed to hatch a wild plot to destroy and get even with the bitch and her lover,well it wasn't the case.I just hated how the cheating wife did away with her husband at the end.She was also in on the plot against him.Kristy Swanson really annoyed me in this movie and I was waiting for her to also die a gruesome death. It started out almost like a comedy then got interesting,then got demented & gory, and finally ended very bad. It did have it's good moments.I liked the quirky drug dealer.And the scenes in the morgue were funny.Graphically the movie was good with good makeup,but the plot was just bad.It could have been so much better.

(Spoiler alert: partially discloses plot)This flick is not as bad as I might have thought. It actually has a somewhat interesting plot. The sound quality stinks though, turn it up high enough to hear the dialogue and the "music" (such as it is) is overwhelmingly loud and blasts you away.Caddish rich-heir-from-Daddy husband, sexy wife (yum, great kisser) and her lover, his best friend. Wife and lover off the cad with blowfish-poison. Only he doesn't die, he is paralyzed like dead but still sees and hears everything but can't move a muscle ("Living Death"). He wakes up on the autopsy table and goes on a revengefest. A medieval torture stretching rack features twice in this horror-genre flick. Daddy had a hobby, a fully equipped attic medieval dungeon that hubby, and implicitly his wife, use for fun and games. The movie starts with yon cad entertaining a lady friend up there with some erotic moderate stretching on a large angled rack (severe unpadded heavy iron manacles, ouch). Things go awry when his wife surprises them. Startled, he leans too hard on the lever and damages the rackee. One gets an impression of the rack's dismembering strength but pictures of the mechanism are unpersuasive, just closeups of gears meshing and chains and ropes tightening. The rack figures again at the end of the movie in the vengeancefest, this time as a torture and execution means. No erotic BDSM this time, but pain and dismemberment. The scene suggests the horror of the real thing beyond erotica when it was used for torture and punishment, much less execution. Anyway, I've seen worse horror-genre flicks. If you're a rack aficionado it's worth a look.

I agree with the first review, totally.But I have to remind the previous reviewer that Kristy Swanson was in "Dude, Where's My Car?" and has not totally been off the screens for the past decade.She does however look ... well, if she were a book, I'd describe her as 'slightly foxed'. Still, she looks better now than she did on the box cover of the 10th anniversary Buffy re-release.This was a 'blind' viewing for me ... I had no knowledge of the film, other than a glimmer of the plot, and was expecting something of a much lower budget than this ... made for TV perhaps ... so the reason I give it a slightly higher score than the previous reviewer is that it hits a higher level of production value than I was expecting it to.