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One of my all time favorites.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

The Boneyard (1991) * 1/2 (out of 4)A couple cops and a psychic investigate the murder of three children. Their investigation leads them to the coroner's office where they quickly learn that the children are in fact zombies and soon everyone is trapped inside the building with them.THE BONEYARD is your typcial low-budget horror film from the 90s that really doesn't have much originality to it and in fact it really doesn't have too much good about it. You've got a couple former stars thrown into the cast, some decent special effects but there's no question that a lot of the running time doesn't have too much going on.I say that because the first forty-two minutes of the movie has the two detectives and the psychic doing nothing but talking. At first I was wondering if I was watching another movie because for a horror movie there's certainly nothing going on for the longest time. Once the zombie children show up things do pick up a bit and one can't help but wonder why they waited so long. Everyone knows that "something" needs to happen every ten-minutes so making us wait over forty was just a major mistake.The zombie children actually look very good and for the most part the special effects were better than I expected and that's especially true for a couple "large" creatures that show up towards the end. The performances are pretty much what you would expect as they range from decent to poor. Norman Fell and Phyllis Diller are on hand and Ed Nelson was also good in the lead.THE BONEYARD should have and could have been much better but it gets off to such a slow and bad start that the film never fully recovers.

"The Boneyard" appears to be a guilty pleasure of many people around here, but I certainly can't write too many positive things about it. This is just another cheap B-movie put together by a guy who got himself noticed in the early 80's by providing the special effects for some decent films ("House", "Strange Invaders") and therefore assumed he'd be good in directing his very own movie as well. There's a fair amount of gruesome make-up effects to be found in this film, but there's no story and the comedy elements just downright suck. By now, I'm pretty sure you've already heard about the stupid poodle that transforms into a gigantic zombie-monster during the finale? Well, this particular gimmick is why so many horror freaks like the film. The oddly named Miss Poopinplatz (Phyllis Diller) and her dog are the nightly caretakers of a little town mortuary where the horribly decomposing bodies of three children are kept. Police detective Jersey Callum and spiritual medium Alley Cates investigating the case and they're in the mortuary when suddenly the dead youngster rise from the autopsy table and go on a rampage. The kids are creepy and good ol' Phyllis has some cool one-liners, but the majority of the film is lame and disappointing. The "zombies" (supposedly ancient Chinese monster-kids without background) never leave the basement of the mortuary and they don't even kill that many people! James Cummins' directing is uninspired and his script is even worse, as it doesn't have the least bit of continuity. Avoid, unless of course you fancy giant zombified poodles.

The Boneyard starts off very boring and for most of the first half it is. I was starting to think "I've picked a bore-fest again!", but the pace picks up in the second half and climaxes with the "zombie poodle" finale. The Boneyrad is really just an average zombie flick, the poodle being the exception. Without it, this film would have been long forgotten. The idea behind it is OK but it lacks gore and the first half is tedious. The sub-plot concerning the woman who lost her child is done terribly - you should be feeling some sort of emotion, but she's such a lifeless actress you feel nothing. The only thing worth seeing is the zombie poodle. There's one hilarious scene where the main character (the lifeless one) throws dynamite for it to "fetch", resulting in a poodle-explosion. It's up to you if you want to see this - but I would recommend fast forwarding to the second half and starting from there.

I caught this movie very late one night on the horror channel (which I usually avoid due to the poor selection of movies they show) and I was pleasantly surprised. The zombie children are quite well done and the acting was OK (better than most of this kind of thing).But I feel the movie leans more towards the Peter Jackson (although I must point out that this movie was released a year before bad taste was) way of doing A zombie flick rather than George A Romeros wonderful masterpieces. Not that this is a bad thing just different.The effects are up to a point quite effective in my opinion but when it comes to what I suppose to be the big effects near the end of the movie are a bit of a letdown.overall well worth a look but don't expect perfection