Vengeance of The Dead (2001) – Adams & Picardi.

Moody, low budget supernatural indie feature finds sensitive young man Eric (Michael Galvin) visiting gramps (Mark Vollmers) at his isolated Wisconsin smallholding, suffering increasingly intense visions of a young girl, which escalate into a series of sinister nocturnal peregrinations. Performances are fine, and the slow-building supernatural content is competently realised, with an engagingly quirky aesthetic throughout. I enjoyed the somnambulist content, quite unusual, the chilling concept of a vengeful spirit utilizing a living host to brutally enact her righteous revenge certainly maintained my interest. The film-makers, and cast all did a credible job of bringing a spectral eeriness to haunting rural horror treat Vengeance of The Dead. My low expectations were greatly exceeded, it felt like a neo-Gothic downer mood piece with some nastily hell-fired exterminations.