Dead Above Ground

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Summary: Mysterious killer with an axe.
Review: Antonio Sabato Jr is the best actor in this film. It has a really stupid plot and ending. It's about a killer with an axe that offs his victims one by one. The motive behind this is that the spiky haired kid in this film is mistreated by all his classmates for his weird seance's and evil cults. His behavior is so strange that he makes the guidance counselor very nervous. After getting run off the road by one of his schoolmates, all his old classmates die one by one by this mysterious killer. While in the meanwhile, Antonio Sabato Jr (the detective) in this movie investigates and does a polygraph on everyone. There is not that much gore or nudity in this film and the ending was very bizarre. It was completely stupid.

Rating:
Summary: pretty bad.
Review: I know this is a straight to video release. It also has some familiar faces in it. But it's horrible. I have to respectfully disagree with the other reviewer and say that Antonio Sabato Jr was absolutely horrible. It seemed like he was reading his lines off cue cards. Granted what he had to work with was a joke to start out with, but come on. Make it even halfway believable. This is nothing more than a very bad B-movie. In this case, the "B" in b-movie truely stands for "BAD!". Don't waste your time. What a disappointment.

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Summary: Autobiographical?
Review: Note to Stephen Cannell: please, just stop. Even when you were at the top of your game, doing things like 21 Jump Street, no one would have called you a genius. And now, you've slipped down the ladder, Stephen. If this is the best thing you can come up with, I would suggest a career change.

This movie is all about an aging Hollywood Screenwriter and his daughter. It features all the typical stereotypes, a Director who is sleeping with a Bimbo Starlet, the Kid From the Wrong Side of Town who wants to date the Screenwriter's daughter. It's like a really bad combination of "Pretty in Pink" and "The Player", trying to be a horror movie.

The concept and the writing are just plain dead. It makes you wonder, when Stephen Cannell came up with the title "Dead Above Ground", was he describing himself?