Review: Ghost House Underground: No Man’s Land: Rise of the Reeker (DVD)

No Man’s Land: Rise of the Reeker is written and directed by Dave Payne, and is something of a one-trick pony of a movie. The main trick of the movie is a misdirect of who the bad guy is; the opening scene plays this to the hilt and once it’s over and the opening credits roll, the rest of the movie is as uninspired as a catalog of office chairs.

The film relies on some rather cliché SF and horror conventions, one element of which even brings some miming into play. The film essentially quickly becomes a survival of the fittest flick, but with a supernatural twist as people who shouldn’t survive certain wounds somehow do.

Relying more on gore and gross-out than actual suspense, No Name’s Land: Rise of the Reeker aims at a lower target than some of the other films in this collection. If they had hit that target solidly, that might be forgivable, but that’s not so much the case here. Despite a nice little shocker opening sequence, the rest of the film fails to live up to that same level of creativity and ends up being more tedious than a film of this type ought to be.