The Newlydeads

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...

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.

I think that this film is about as bad as it gets. It is cruel, has despicable characters, and it concentrates on homo-phobia as if it were a good thing. NEWLYDEADS made me angry in many different ways.

First, there's the plot, which is so ludicrously played out that you wished that the transvestite would wipe everyone out pronto. Second, the actors are universally annoying. Why noone decided to hire professionals is probably a credit to the lecherous script. Thirdly, the direction is poor, poor, poor...fruit has rotted much more colorfully. And, the thing is, the director still gets work!

This is appalling work by any standards, and someone had to actually edit this thing.

NEWLYDEADS is a zero in my book.

Ham and cheese.

Two thoughts of this film when I was watching this.

The ham represents the acting of the actors in this low budget gore-fest, as they ham it up.

The cheese is the plot of this film, mainly swiss and full of holes.

The film opens with a person driving down a road, and the car radio is playing facts from that year. The driver pulls up at a hotel and the hotel clerk falls for the person and finds out she was a he, which leads to the demise of the drag queen, any more than three beers and you would have thought Jackie was a lady, not a guy in a wig, make up and high heels.

When the spirit of the dead drag queen comes back at the hotel clerk's wedding fifteen years later, he is shocked to see he/she and then the body count continues to clock up.

The gore scenes are pretty simple, somewhat borrowed from Friday the 13th films. As the film progresses, you can pretty much guess who is going to die.

I found this film for sale on ebay and watched it on VHS. Interestengly enough, the trailer was featured on another video I saw and the trailer was good, which grabbed my attention.

Laughable yet easy going film.