Release Date: 07/01/2008
Label/Distributor: Lionsgate
Rating: R (Restricted)
Retail Price: $26.98
Genre: Horror Director: Yossi Sasson
Running Time: 84
DVD Video Options: AC-3,Closed-captioned,Color,Dolby,DVD-Video,Widescreen,NTSC
DVD Audio Options: English;Original Language
UPC Code: 031398235989
Jack Wade struggling actor and trophy husband kidnaps his comatose wife Frankie ex-Hollywood studio exec from the hospital and takes her to an isolated cabin in the Nevada mountains. This cabin is Jack's only asset which he won in a poker game..The same place where a man murdered his entire family decades earlier. Jack plots to kill Frankie in order to collect on her life insurance. Jack becomes delusional and has visions of the rude and crude Frankie relentlessly taunting him. As he unravels and can't decipher paranoia from derangement he decides to smother his wife. Frankie dies but does not disappear. Is her ghost haunting Jack or is he insane?System Requirements:Running Time: 84 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:-áHORROR/KILLER Rating:-áNR UPC:-á031398235989 Manufacturer No:-á23598
Dead and Gone
By Buzz McClain -- Video Business, 7/1/2008 6:49:00 PM
LIONSGATE
Street: July 1
Prebook: now
> Offbeat premise elevates this slasher horror flick above its competitors.
In this latest slasher flick, the killer isn’t a faceless specter—he’s actually the good guy. But don’t worry, because by the end, he’s an axe-wielding homicidal maniac. Quentin Jones plays Jack, who at the outset has transported his comatose wife and her life support system to a dilapidated cabin in the middle of nowhere, awaiting the arrival of an insurance check. But wouldn’t you know that the cabin is haunted, and the spirits are eager to play with Jack’s mind and turn him into a murderer. Debuting director Yossi Sasson uses a cool editing method to speed things up by cutting out a few frames of film within shots, causing a disjointed and jerky but coherent image. He also shot the film on the grainiest filmstock possible, giving it the warm, gauzy feel of an old-school drive-in movie.
Shelf Talk: Dead and Gone is a stand-out among the countless madmen movies stalking the new release shelf. The box art of a zombie rising from the grave might draw fright fans in, but since there’s no star power to promote, it’s going to take a push to get this title into the hands of those who’ll appreciate it most.
Horror, color, R (mature themes, violence, language, sexual situations), 84 min., DVD $26.98
Extras: none
Director: Yossi Sasson
First Run: DVD premiere
