All Souls Day

All Souls Day

2005 • English-language films

Body count: 16 • Sleaze count: 4

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All Souls Day, or All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos, was written by Mark A. Altman (of House of the Dead and House of the Dead 2 fame) and premiered on the Sci Fi Channel on June 11th, 2005. Danny Trejo plays Vargas, a man who finds a temple to the goddess of death in a mine on the outskirts of Santa Bonita, Mexico. As a bid for eternal life, he lures the townsfolk into the excavation during a celebration of the Day of the Dead and blows the entrance shut, trapping everyone inside. Now, the town must offer a sacrifice every year, else the dead will return to punish those responsible for the murders. The sacrifice of our heroine (played by Marisa Ramirez) doesn't go according to plan, and the standard zombie attack on a house of meat plays out as typically as you'd expect. Jeffrey Combs makes a negligible appearance.

Death by: 1: gun (self-inflicted); 2: zombie; 3: slashed wrists (self-inflicted); 4: zombie (offscreen); 5, 6: zombie; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12: poison; 13: gun; 14: gun (accidental); 15: zombie; 16: gun. Sleaze by: 1: bath, breasts; 2: full-frontal nudity (unfulfilled), full-frontal nudity (unwilling); 3: lingerie, sex (unfulfilled); 4: full-frontal nudity (unfulfilled), full-frontal nudity (unwilling).