#22 - Frightmare (1983)
(dir. Norman Thaddeus Vane)
When legendary horror icon Conrad Radzoff dies, a group of horror-buff film students decide to honor him by doing the obvious - breaking into his mausoleum and stealing his corpse, of course! The logic behind this isn't obvious, but nothing in this movie seems to happen for any particular reason. They bring his body back to their house, where they have a party and take pictures with him. When his widow enlists the help of a psychic to find where he was taken, he is reanimated and starts getting revenge on the students.
This is not a good movie. The plot is bad, and there are parts that make so little sense that it made me wonder if whole scenes were missing. Conrad is not a threatening villain at all - he just looks like an old man in a bad Dracula costume. The only interesting thing about this one is that it is one of Jeffrey Combs' first films. He isn't given much to work with, but at least he's better than the rest of the cast.
I think this could've benefited quite a bit from taking a lighter tone - it's a silly premise but it tries to play it straight, and more or less completely fails. I did laugh out loud a couple of times, but it was at the film, not with it. Not worth anyone's time.
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