In 1987, acclaimed mountain climber Sean McIntyre wipes out his entire family due to altitude sickness & hangs himself. Twenty years later, the McIntyre house is the site of a Halloween-themed internet webcast. Six people – two couples, a bookish lesbian & a porn actress – are handpicked to star in the contest for a small fortune as producer Richard DeNoia plans to boost his audience numbers & make a large profit, as well as paying off his debts. But during the night, the group hold a séance. Sean McIntyre returns from the grave as a vengeful ghost, slaughtering his way through the group.
Death on Demand is a B-grade horror film that took the likes of HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION as inspiration for its own story. But unlike Resurrection, this one doesn't have the star power of Michael Myers for a villain so they use the ghost of a mountain climber as the monster here.
Unlike Halloween: Resurrection, which was decidedly mediocre despite the novelty concept & The Shape's presence, Death on Demand is quite a reasonably decent film. It won't win any awards & there are some inconsistencies in the story, but director Adam Matalon manages to make a passable reality-TV-based horror film work. The actors do a decent job, although their antics at first get a little too clichéd for my liking. But once the ghost appears, the film picks up quite a bit (the scene where the séance ends with a supernatural warning & a chandelier falling on the table was a good jump shock). The climax where the sole survivor discovers a way to defeat the ghost, only to later find to her chagrin that it didn't work & the ghost is here for good is pretty bleak.
Death on Demand is a B-grade horror film that took the likes of HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION as inspiration for its own story. But unlike Resurrection, this one doesn't have the star power of Michael Myers for a villain so they use the ghost of a mountain climber as the monster here.
Unlike Halloween: Resurrection, which was decidedly mediocre despite the novelty concept & The Shape's presence, Death on Demand is quite a reasonably decent film. It won't win any awards & there are some inconsistencies in the story, but director Adam Matalon manages to make a passable reality-TV-based horror film work. The actors do a decent job, although their antics at first get a little too clichéd for my liking. But once the ghost appears, the film picks up quite a bit (the scene where the séance ends with a supernatural warning & a chandelier falling on the table was a good jump shock). The climax where the sole survivor discovers a way to defeat the ghost, only to later find to her chagrin that it didn't work & the ghost is here for good is pretty bleak.