This little period piece about grave robbers in the late 1800s has been on my radar for a while, since it hit the video store shelves a few years ago. Just the names of Ron Perlman and Dominic Monaghan were enough to grab me, and their dialogue scenes are definitely the highlight of this macabre flick.
Otherwise its full of that bland and slow british humor that's all the rage right now. Personally I've never had much use for the style. The Brits spend a little too much time talking about the world and not enough time living in it, at least in their cinema. Each vignette is prefaced by Perlman and Monaghan talking about what's going to happen first. Kind of takes the air out of the scenes. Plus, again, the conversations are actually more interesting than the scenes they are introducing. Some of the action is worthwhile, harkening back to the slapstick zombie fun of Evil Dead 2, and it all ends well. I mean, the ending is worth the slim 85 minute runtime.
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