Legion of Dead (Ws)

Starring:Michael Carr (III), Russell Friedenberg, Kimberly Liebe, Matthias Hues, Hank Stone, Harvey J. Alperin, Christopher Kriesa, Darren Shahlavi, Joe Cook (II), Jay Harik, Chin Meyer, Andrea Seitz, Jeff Motherhead, Birgit Stauber, Morgan Hunter
Director: Olaf Ittenbach
Studio: Live / Artisan
Product Type: DVD

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Whoa was this bad or what...
RATHER HUMOROUS, BUT OFTEN IN A BAD WAY.
Legion of the Lousy
Best Movie Ever
A special surprise gem of a movie.

Legion of the Dead
Starring: Courtney Clonch , Claudia Lynx , Bruce Boxleitner , Zach Galligan , and Chad Collins (II)
Director: Paul Bales
Manufacturer: The Asylum Home Entertainment
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Release Date: 2005-08-09

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Whoa was this bad or what..........2007-02-26

-And those who say or what were either not watching the same movie or watching it in an altered state of sorts.

(Possible spoilers.. like it matters).

-The story???, involves the ressurection of an Egyptian priestess found in a tomb in California (don't ask me how that happened, I'm not even sure any of the cast or crew knows). This priestess named Aneh-Tet (Claudia Lynx, sounds like a porn name of sorts to me) must collect souls to bring back an army of mummies (well seven actually, which I guess qualifies for an army in this movie). This must of couse be avoided and a student, her sister and a former boyfriend of the student must try to kill the mummies and Aneh-Tet.

-Lots of bad effects, dialogue and everything here throughtout the movie. The acting is really bad too and the director must have realized how uninteresting his film was, so he tried to peak interest by having Ms. Lynx wander around naked for a good portion of the movie, it didn't help the interest level at all.

-The death scenes are even bad, some shots of digital blood are used, hard to believe they spent about $500,000 on this. I'd sure like to know where it went as a lot of the sets looked fairly cheap, not as bad as other films, but bad never the less.

-Overall this is a bad movie throughout the whole running time, the pacing is off as is everything else. Watch only in an altered state otherwise it might be too painful to watch all the way through without realizing just how bad it is.

RATHER HUMOROUS, BUT OFTEN IN A BAD WAY........2006-04-28

Wow...look it's Bruce Boxleitner, I've heard of him. And it's Zach Galligan from Gremlins. Hey, a low budget horror film with a couple of actors you've actually heard of...can't be bad right? Well hold on there Pilgrim, lets not go that far. We have to make the assumption that these two guys really...REALLY needed a paycheck. Legion of the dead isn't horrible..but it's far from passable either. I mean there's some pretty good hokey fun although I think much of it may be unintentional..or maybe it wasn't and I'm not giving them enough credit. It's certainly pretty cheesy though. If you can buy the ludicrous plot of an ancient Egyptian burial ground being found in the L.A. Mountains then give yourself a pat on the back. That's certainly the dumbest element to the plot. Galligan is an archaeologist who goes to investigate the tomb and finds the sarcophagus of a mummy queen who of course is revived and goes on a rampage by bringing mummy hordes to life ala "The Mummy" of a few years ago. Claudia Lynx, who plays the mummy queen is fairly attractive and that is one good feature of the film. As a cheesy, schlocky film it's OK. But it's certainly NOT a horror film per se...there's nothing remotely terrifying in it. It's like a Sci-Fi Channel film.

Legion of the Lousy.......2006-02-06

WARNING: possible spoilers ahead...

With the exception of the newly resurrected Full Moon movies, the Asylum distributes and produces the absolute worst horror movies on the video store shelves. The Asylum's legacy of lousiness continues with their Mummy epic, Legion of the Dead.

This movie is basically like Queen of the Damned with mummies instead of vampires and with Bruce Boxleitner and the kid from Gremlins instead of Aaliyah. This tepid tale begins when a couple of dirt bikers stumble on an ancient Egyptian burial tomb somewhere in the mountains of Los Angeles. You heard me right, this ancient Egyptian burial chamber is in the foothills of Los Angeles. Somehow those wacky Egyptians managed to make it all the way to California with a bunch of their loot and sarcophagus with a Queen Mummy in it. The Gremlins kid (can't remember his name) is an archaeologist who is summoned to the site after the two dirt bikers tell the cops about what they found.

The Gremlins guy leads a team on an expedition into the burial chamber. There's ten minutes of Indiana Jones shenanigans as our intrepid explorers make their way through into the tomb. Poisoned arrows, cryptic warnings written in hieroglyphs and trap doors abound. They make it through a winding maze of styrofoam cave walls and find a sarcophagus with an ancient Queen Mummy in it. Of course, they awaken this mummy from her slumber and it turns into an episode of Scooby Doo. The Queen Mummy reanimates a bunch of her mummy pals and they make short work of our explorers.

As far as the story goes, it doesn't get any more cookie cutter than this. It's shot on someone's camcorder, just like all the other offerings from the Asylum. The acting is cardboard. Overall, it's just a complete waste of time. My hope is that all lovers of horror movies will stop renting and buying these cheap, irritating movies from the Asylum. Maybe if they realize that they can't make a profit churning out these foul flicks, they will stop making them. I sure hope so.

Best Movie Ever.......2005-09-12

I love this movie I think its an instant classic. The music that plays in the credits is the best music iver ever heard.

A special surprise gem of a movie........2005-08-31

Are you ready for a movie that was made by people who love movies? I was pleasantly surprised by this labor of love. Though in the entertaining commentary track there are several mentions of this being a low budget film--it doesn't come across that way. This is one of those character and story driven type films that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The well written script and casting are superb. Though Bruce Boxleitner is certainly well known and respected for his work over the years--the rest of the cast are going to be known actors in a couple of years if they keep up the work they did in this film. Hopefully first time director Paul Bales will make a sequel to this, or at least direct some more films--I knew his name from media coverage of his extensive management work over the years in two actor performers unions based in Los Angeles but I wasn't aware that he had this artistic to side him. His humor on the commentary track makes me want to have a boss like him--he and his cast and crew made an excellent movie while still having a great time. This would be an excellent film for any film student to watch--it shows you how by using teamwork (and creative writing and casting) you can make an entertaining film without having a James Cameron 100 million dollar budget to work with.

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Starring: Michael Carr (III) , Russell Friedenberg , Kimberly Liebe , Matthias Hues , and Hank Stone
Director: Olaf Ittenbach
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