Grave Secrets

I feel like now that this film is available on blu ray in awesome quality some people will re-evaluate it. I remember seeing it on tv in the 90's. Possibly on USA up all night. I think it's a pretty good and effective little ghost story. The only thing i would change would be that Paul LeMat's charcter needed more enthusiasm. Any movie with David Warner and Lee Ving is at least worth a watch. Give it a shot.

I cant believe that this was made in 1989 The effects are so dated It looks more like a 1940s horror film, No scares, no gore seriously lame movie and the story is predictable I thought it might be good beacuse david warner was in it ...yes he is.. for 15 minutes and even the part he played was terrible.

As soon as the egg started flying i should of turned off.

Never the less i watch it all the way through hoping it would get better and it did not.

The idea film started like a good ole 80s film then about 10 minutes in it goes down hill.

This film is the sort of "horror " i would watch with my grandma on a sunday afternoon.

Holy moly, was this hard to get through. I have to confess to watching it in two parts and, by the time I'd got round to watching the second half, I'd pretty much forgotten what had gone on before. I decided to start again from the beginning until I realised that nothing much of any interest had happened and I could just skip back to the midway point where I'd originally left off.

It feels like one of those 'made-for-TV' movies based off a Stephen King story that seemed to be very popular in the eighties. Those weren't very good - and yet they were head and shoulders over this offering. It's about a woman who's troubled by a ghost and, seeing as the 'Ghostbusters' were obviously way too busy to help out, she enlists the help of a college professor with an interest in the paranormal.

And, er, that's about it for the most part. Almost nothing happens until about ten minutes before the end. The characters are ugly (meow!) and they do quite dumb things. It looks like the film-makers put everything into one make-up scene a few almost passable special effects right at the end. But that was way too little too late to make this worth sitting through.

Troubled Iris seeks the help of a paranormal psychologist/university professor who himself can't let go of his deceased wife and thus is about to be fired, to investigate hauntings at her cabin.

I saw this film on Instant Netflix under the title "Secret Screams", but no matter which moniker the movie goes by it's awful nonetheless. the acting is sub-par, the little special effects the film uses are hokey even for '80's standards, nothing really happens for a good 2/3rds of the movie and the plot is simply a jumbled mess. chalk this one up as an exercise in tedium.

My Grade: D-

This is an unknown gem of a movie that has some real chills. Like much of it's genre it shows too much at the end and falls apart while fumbling for an (unsatisfying) explanation of the events. Overall, definitely recommended over the "Scream" rip-offs or "Exorcist" rip-offs of the late 70s and early 80s. If it were released today it would probably be a modest box office success.

Look for some conceptually innovative supernatural activity!