The Newlydeads (1988)

best movie i've ever seen.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Another of City Light's cheapies, that throws out movies, like people do trash. You gotta give credit to it's story. Transvestite tries to get sexy with a manager who runs a hotel for newlyweds. He doesn't take to him, sorrily, and ends up murdering the trannie. Years, later, his spirit returns, killing off couples, who have just made their vows. The hotel manager is about to get married to a much younger lass. Lucky him. A 40's psychic woman, holidaying at the hotel with her man is his only chance. Laughable flick, as is almost everything Joseph Mehri and Richard Pepin bring out, this one's an entertainer with overdone violence and some not bad acting. But do watch this privately, to avoid embarrassment from others who might end up killing you off. The priest is a hoot.

As stated in the above summary, this Z-grade slasher dud has very little to offer but it's from Troma so what do you expect? The story starts when a transvestite checks into a rural hotel that specializes in servicing newlywed couples and tries to seduce the owner of the establishment. When the man realizes that he is kissing a cross dressing dude instead of a chick he offs the bottom boy. Of course the evil tranny comes back from the dead in zombie form to seek revenge. Notable characters in the movie include a funny drunk pastor, the smokin' hot wife of the hotel owner, and a weed smoking punk rock couple. The effects are extremely cheap, the zombie costume is pretty lame, and the kills are nothing to brag about. That being said there is some blood, a couple boobie scenes (yes the boobs are on females!) and a decapitation that was OK. Being a big fan of cheesy low budget horror myself i would have been content fast-forwarding to the one rather long shower scene that shows a killer rack because that's really the only part of the film that stood out. If bottom of the barrel violent horror garbage is your thing then i would recommend watching DOOM ASYLUM or one of Tim Ritter's films instead of this.

Joseph Merhi's "The Newlydeads" is a textbook example of late 80's slasher.The spirit of a dead drag queen kills honeymoon couples at the lakeside resort where he was murdered.This film is so horrendously bad that it truly has to be seen to be believed.The acting is awful,the suspense is non-existent and there is plenty of cheesy gore.The character of drunken preacher is hilarious.This is the sort of movie that keeps you thinking that they must have intended it to be bad-this couldn't be some sort of accidental mistake.Avoid this one like the plague.2 out of 10.

Lets see bad acting, sorry effects, blood, and of course boobs! Usually the winning combo of a B movie, but not always. The Newlydeads was a decent flick. The only thing that made this movie worth the $2.00 I paid for it, was the preacher! He was hilarious! He was a drunk and he was often stumbling and singing. Well, My favorite part of the movie was he came up on some rustling in the bushes. Well, it turns out to be an old "newlydead" couple. He yells out, "Whadda ya'll doing in the bushes? SCREWIN!?!?! I was rolling! Other than that this was pretty much a dud. Oh and an interesting tidbit, They added sound effects for EVERY footstep in the movie. Eveytime someone is walking you hear clump, clump, clump, clump...