Cemetery Gates Movie
Storyline
TAGLINES
Trespassers will be eaten!
She just wants to play... with your corpse!
Rest in pieces
When two ecologists break-in the laboratory of Dr. Belmont, they find a box with a subject and they decide to set the experiment free in the woods. During the transportation, the box opens and releases the mutant Tasmanian Devil that devours the two activists and escapes to the woods. Meanwhile, Dr. Belmont's son Hunter travels in a van with four friends to film a horror movie in the cemetery in the woods, while Belmont and his associate Dr. Christine Kollar seek their deadly experiment called Precious.
| Reggie Bannister | Belmont |
| Peter Stickles | Hunter Belmont |
| Aime Wolf | Dr. Christine Kollar |
| Nicole DuPort | Kym |
| Kristin Novak | August |
| Ky Evans | Tony |
| John Thomas | Enrique |
| Chris Finch | Matt |
| Karol Garrison | Earl Martin |
| Bill Lloyd | John Martin |
| Greg McDonald | Ben |
| Stephen Van Dorn | Alex |
| Howard Berger | Stoner Dude Doug |
| Gregory Nicotero | Stoner Dude Michael |
| Aristide Sumatra | Ed the Fisherman |
| Roy Knyrim |
4.00 out of 10 (484 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Terrible, will make you stupid
posted on 15 Jul 2009I can't believe this has been rated so high - and average 4/10? This movie was terrible. I love gore and bad horror movies, and this was surely that, but it still sucked. The 'blood' in this movie looked exactly like the blueberry syrup I put on my waffles every morning. And I HATED every single character in this film. These people should never act again. The stupid pot-smoking teenage actors gave the worst most annoying performances ever captured on film. So maybe that is the only thing this movie achieved, because it didn't really do much else. It certainly didn't scare me, and it wasn't funny or amusing, except possibly with the way some of the people were unbelievably killed.
WTF is this
posted on 05 Jul 2009i had my share of bad movies,well that what i thought but when i think they have done enough one more comes out.The movie is so awful that i believe it is a disgrace to the art of cinema. The women are cute but overall the movie is just awful i don't have words to describe.PLEASE PLEASE do not waste your time on this.But yes you can recommend it to friends if u want them to suffer.The thing created to scare you is so funny and beside 1 or 2 murders you will not be scared of the murders ,but yes you will laugh till u drop dead.The story line is also very bogus and nothing new is there not even something old in a new bottle,i cant believe people had spent money to see it in cinema. HATE THE MOVIE AND SO WILL YOU JUST Don't WASTE YOUR TIME
LMAO at this horrible movie!
posted on 01 Jul 2009Cemetery Gates can't be seen like a real movie. You must be drunk or doped so that you could not laugh about it. Terrible acting and lousy editing complements with a stupid story, dumb teens, dumb persons but with a good FX. Gore abounds and sometimes is really cheesy, other pretty good. Nevetherless you can't take this movie in consideration and the best way to see it is to make fun of it and to spit up a good dose of laughs... nothing more. The acting is beyond mediocre, the dialog is abominable and the only positive thing is the creature itself... even then you'll notice how bad screened it is sometimes.You must see this low budget movie in a humorous manner and you must strip yourself off reality and stupidity. Actually it's better you see it with your friends if you want to have a good and freaky animated afternoon attended by a big pack of beers and kilograms of weed...This movie really sucked and the money spent on it could have been injected into a charity center for homeless people or an orphanage...
who are the 42 people that gave 10 points?
posted on 06 May 2009This movie was the beginning of my "let's watch bad movies with friends and laugh until we burst in tears" episodes. We were kind of shocked by it, shocked by living the worst but also funniest experience of our personal movie history. I thought that this movie was a kind of joke prepared all together with the movie crew. Maybe half of the crew made a joke to the other 42 people working there(which is the number of people that gave 10 points to this movie) and made them believe that they were actually filming. when i found myself thinking about all these possibilities, one brilliant idea shined amongst them: i will go and buy a hand camera and a torch to my 3 year cousin and tell her to make a movie..even that would be better than this one
Kicks Butt for Insane Gore Fans
posted on 27 Feb 2009This is my first comment so please be gentle with me, but I loved this movie. My 19 year old son picked it out because I had just split with my boyfriend of 4 years and wanted some gratuitous violence and gore. I was concerned it may have been too low budget for decent FX but I got a surprise! Plenty of ridiculous amounts of blood and even some anatomy lesson-type shots. I thoroughly enjoyed this over-the-top gore goodie. Who watches these things for plot line and believability anyway? I can't thank my son enough for his excellent pick that gave me exactly what I needed today!!!! I have enjoyed what were once called "B" movies ever since I was very young - my father used to tell me how they did all the effects and since then, I have found movies that exhibit these talents fascinating. I am very lucky that my son also shares my pleasure, joy and amusement at these tasteless, incredibly delightful devices of frustration release! Dana
Funny and Gore Trash
posted on 14 Jan 2009When two ecologists break-in the laboratory of Dr. Belmont (Reggie Bannister), they find a box with a subject and they decide to set the experiment free in the woods. During the transportation, the box opens and releases the mutant Tasmanian Devil that devours the two activists and escapes to the woods. Meanwhile, Dr. Belmont's son Hunter (Peter Stickles) travels in a van with four friends to film a horror movie in the cemetery in the woods, while Belmont and his associate Dr. Christine Kollar (Aime Wolf) seek their deadly experiment called Precious.The underrated trash "Cemetery Gates" is a cheesy, funny and gore B-movie with a silly story, average acting and a stereotypical stupid blonde with hilarious lines and nice breasts performed by the sexy and hot Kristin Novak. I have had lot of fun watching Precious tearing apart her victims, the quantity of blood and the dialogs of August and her friends. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "O Portão do Cemitério" ("The Cemetery Gate")
Now that's false advertising...
posted on 31 Dec 2008Wow... This one threw me for a loop. With a title like "Cemetery Gates", you kinda start thinking "Zombies" or some other kind of "Undead" folks, but this one fooled me "Hook, Line and what a Stinker". I like to watch the "Making Of" segments first, because it kinda lets you in on what the producers were trying to accomplish. No zombies, no creepy kids, no mortuary, in fact nothing of the "Undead" persuasion at all... A mutant "Tasmaniun Devil" would try to scare us this time around. Well, maybe it would have scared me if IT weren't a guy in a Disneyland costume gone wrong. I mean... Come on! Did the producers honestly think this was going to scare someone? I understand it was supposed to be half comedy, but don't call it "Cemetery Gates" and then insult us with this crap. The scariest part of this film was the fact that the producers actually sought after director Roy Knyrim, so that they could add a real creepy feel to the film. "Sorry Roy" your film sucks! The saddest part is that they suckered Reggie "Phantasim" Bannister to partake in the idiocy. Say it ain't so Reggie... Say it ain't so. The film is a model case for "False Advertising", and I hope "Horror" fans aren't fooled the way that I was.
Gore Mongral Movie Review: Cemetery Gates
posted on 23 Dec 2008Cemetery Gates a movie that has been on a holding pattern for the last 2 years and has finally got a DVD release from Ventura Home Entertainment. Was it worth the wait lets check it out.I'm going to say that one of the tag lines for this movie that raised my interest when I heard about it was "17 people die in 90 minutes" that is immediate goregasim when I hear that. So for the 17 kills what do we get well about 40 gallons of blood (no lie) a decapitation, a head that is smashed through a fence, severed arms, shredded backs, pulsating neck wounds, a gentleman torn in half, a gushing chest wound...and several other kills that I cannot think of right at this time and keep in mind every kill (except for 2 or 3 ) gets a Lone Wolf and Cub (or Kill Bill for those uneducated) style blood spray death sequence. Very nice indeed and the movie does have some of the more over the top kills of any film I've seen in awhile.The killer in the film is an 8 foot long Mutated Tasmanian Devil...thats right an 8 foot long Tasmanian Devil...sounds so cool I just had to say it twice. The Devil looks pretty cool if you ask me and the fact that it is all man in a suit and not CGI garbage makes it all the better. The story is not much but with 17 kills in 90 minutes what do you expect. Animal rights activists let loose the beast from a lab and its up to the scientist who created him (Reggie Freakin Bannister) and his lab assistant/ scientist to capture it and bring it back at all costs.This movie has all the pieces in place to be a cool B movie classic, however there is some problems I had that turned this from a love it to like it movie. One is the Humor, now I know some of my pygmies love that Troma stuff and if you do you will LOVE THIS MOVIE. I on the other hand am not the biggest fan of Troma style humor and some of the sequences in this film come off to Troma-like for me. A lot has to do with the director who in the commentary actually talks about his work that he did with Troma, go figure. Not all of the humor is bad but some of it seems very forced and almost acts as if it wants to hit you over the head with it which really is a Jar Jar Binks twinge maker for me and when I get that Jar jar twinge something isn't right. The other thing that bugged me was some of the cameos by some of the guys behind the FX who should have just stayed behind the camera, even though they are creature fodder their brief speaking portions really took away from the mood and made me get the famous Jar Jar cringe yet again.Once we get past the first 45 minutes though the second half gets less Troma Comedic and more along the lines of what I was expecting and from that point my slight disappointment turned to joy as it played out very well including the nice classic ending with ******SLIGHT Spoiler********************************************** Baby Tazs being kept in a backpack by its momma.In conclusion Gore fans and B monster movie fans will get a kick out of this but may get turned off by the forced Tromaesque humor however Troma Fans are gonna eat this one up. I liked it and would like to see more directors and monster movie makers say screw it to the rating system (as they mention in the making of section of the DVD) and just make it the way you really want it. For that I applaud them. With buckets of blood and evisceration's galore I give Cemetery Gates the Minor Cult worthy rating of: 6/10: above average, good for a friend film night and when you want to watch a crazy monster hack people to shreds.Until next time this is the GoreMongral saying if you ever are in a Cemetery remember, zombies are not the only thing that can kill you...its those dang Mutated Tasmanian Devils you got to watch out for!!!!
Not very good
posted on 12 Oct 2008"Cemetary Gates" is a movie that wants to be like 70's and 80's creature flicks like "Alligator" or "Prophecy". Well, it has a cool monster, and some nice gore effects, so where does it go wrong? Well, for one thing, the comedy aspects of the movie really fall flat. Jokes such as the recording of a man's diarrhea, poorly done sex gags, and other such things hurt it considerably. Sure, horror and comedy can go together, but not when the jokes suck.Also, the acting is pretty bad. Everyone seems unenthusiastic, especially Reggie ("Phantasm") Bannister as the scientist father. At least Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero are amusing as two stoner types.Oh, and there are also the two annoying hillbilly characters that feel like a bad "MadTV" version of "Deliverence." In the end, the movie is a major missed opportunity. If done with a better script and better characters, it could have been a winner. In the end though, that's all you get: Could have been.
Unpretentious, trashy horror fun.
posted on 28 Sep 2008I imagine it will take me longer to write this comment than it took the creators of Cemetery Gates to come up with the plot for their film, but this being a not-exactly-original, no-frills monster movie doesn't stop it from being a whole lot of fun. It may have been done a thousand times before, but so long as there's plenty of silly creature effects, a ton of blood and gore, and some nudity from a busty girl or two, I'll never get bored of the 'mutant creature on the loose' sub-genre—and Cemetery Gates delivers on all counts.The film's amazingly daft killer creature is a huge, genetically enhanced Tasmanian devil named Precious (yes, you read that correctly—a Tasmanian devil named Precious!!!) that has been released into the wild by a pair of very dumb animal activists. After immediately killing it's liberators, the vicious beast heads for a nearby cemetery, where a group of young film-makers are shooting the opening scenes for a horror movie. Meanwhile, scientist Belmont (Reggie Bannister) and his sexy assistant Dr. Christine Kollar (Aime Wolf) are tracking the monster, hoping to recapture it before it eats too many people. Fat chance!With practically every attack by Precious being accompanied by buckets of blood, and the bits in between deaths made extremely bearable by the presence of a couple of young hotties (including the very cute, giggly August, played by busty blonde Kristin Novak, who regularly removes her top), Cemetery Gates is great entertainment for those not wanting to work their brain cells too hard.Towards the end of the film, things do run out of steam a tad, with a little too much running around in tunnels for my liking, but with so much juicy splatter on display, a fun looking non-CGI beast, some fine breasts, plus a hilarious scene in which a hippie stoned on peyote sees Precious as a cute animated animal, I'm willing to be a little forgiving about the film's few imperfections.
What is this crap?
posted on 27 May 2008This is not a movie, this is big pack of crap. I suggest to all members of the crew to go back to school and learn: 1 how to write a good story, 2 how to make a good film from it, 3. watch other movies about man-eating creatures such as JAWS, She Creature or even Dinocroc. Dinocroc is not the best movie I've seen about killer crocodiles but much better then this. I wish we could rate a movie 0 or minus 10 because for this one I'd like to rate like this. I'm not able to understand how could anyone vote for it a higher value then 2 out of then. There's no story, just a whore and two unthinkably stupid assholes among the characters. I liked even Star Crystal because it was so "stupid" that it was "funny". But not this one. I like horror movies very much but I stopped watching this after the first 20 minutes because nothing happened. Don't waste your time and money: avoid this movie as far as you can. 0 out of 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000
could of been better.
posted on 09 Apr 2008Firstly, this film is not going to win any Oscars for its acting or storyline or best creature of the year, but on the other hand if blood and guts and a little humour thrown in is your thing then this might be the flick for you. we have four young males, two females, one is the intelligent type and the other is the dumb blonde bimbo, out to make a film in a cemetery. nearby we have a couple of animal activists who break into a lab and release an animal who has been experimented on and is now a blood thirsty killer roaming the forest.sure enough what we get is a bad looking animal killing every thing it sees. i have to say the death scenes are very gory, limbs ripped out there sockets, intestines spewing out, decapitations and buckets of blood. as i said the story and acting isn't great but if you love your horror films to be gory then this may be for you.
'Bloody' well done!
posted on 15 Feb 2008The B horror movie lives! No, this isn't John Carpenter or Steven Spielberg … or even Tod Browning … but it isn't half bad. 'Cemetery Gates' is a slightly original variation on the traditional B horror theme. One variation is that the main group of protagonists are filming their own horror film when true horror strikes THEM.Anyone who likes blood and gore will love this one. The plot isn't great shakes, but it holds up as well as any B horror plot. We have brain-dead college kids, including a girl with a bra size bigger than her IQ. One improvement in this film is that at least here the big-chested bimbo isn't pawned off on us as a 'graduate student' or someone who would have to have considerably more brains than she has. These are just friends of a college student wanting to make a zombie movie as his class project. One can imagine that three of the six students would probably have flunked out in another year, had they all lived. Of course one does wonder why he would entrust his film to dope-smoking bums and a bimbo.The student making the film (Peter Stickles) is the son of an unprincipled scientist (Reggie Bannister) who has mutated a Tasmanian devil, turning it into something akin to the man-eating cartoon creature in Bugs Bunny cartoons. The beast, 'Precious,' is pretty cool and can really put the hurt on its victims, all of whom die much slower than they would like.The film is not without some interesting background. The old cemetery where the kids are filming their zombie film contains a memorial marker for 200+ miners killed when nearby tunnels were flooded in 1925. Apparently the bodies were never recovered and our teens fall through sinkholes into the labyrinth of tunnels that includes skulls and mummified bodies. Naturally Precious makes this her home after being released in a nearby state park.Without giving the plot away, you could say 'Many are called; most are eaten.' For B horror fare, this is a pretty satisfying production, with good special effects, plenty of blood shooting, dripping, spurting, flowing, etc. The acting from the no-name cast is solid and the handful of attempts to move the plot away from a stale B horror formula appreciated. This isn't the one to do a major term paper on in a film theory class, but is perfect for relaxing with on a late Friday or Saturday night!
trash
posted on 30 Oct 2007This movie could be a good movie, its a good idea behind the plot. The movie is trash with a monster that looks like a man in a suit. It has a low budget and looks like it too. There is the normal blond bimbo who can't keep her clothes on, and obviously she was hire for her boob size, than her acting skills, if she has any.In the scenes before she is killed, you will not sure if you should burst into tears or laughter.The acting is poor, look like they drag people off the street and ask them to act in this movie.The movie is so daft at one point, the main characters pass an abandon vehicle covered in blood, yet don't even stop or think something may be wrong. A number of locals discovery the beast is loose in the area and see it slaughting people, yet they don't seem bother by this, or even scare, and last thing on their minds is fleeing and calling the police.In one scence, a victim is crushed by what looks like a plastic tomb stone, which it looks like and chances it was made out of plastic.The ending, well, the tassie cubs look like puppets, and thats what they are, a one legged chook would scary you more than these puppets.This movie gives Tassie devils a bad name.
Good gore effects, utterly predictable storyline
posted on 24 Sep 2007A showcase for solid gory effects, suspended from an utterly predictable storyline, "Cemetery Gates" is an okay monster-on-the-loose flick with crisp photography and serviceable direction. For undemanding teenagers, it may satisfy. A bunch of young people go into the woods to shoot a movie. We know the movie's not going to get finished because a Tasmanian Devil (a dog-like creature from Tasmania, I presume) is on the loose in the area. As already noted, the effects are nicely executed. We get heads ripped off, bodies shaken and slashed (ala "Brotherhood of the Wolf"), and much blood-spurting. It's just unfortunate that the writers of this thing didn't reach a little further into their imaginations to produce something less predictable and more meaty for the actors. Artwork on DVD is terribly dark and generic. These days, with horror flooding the market, you need to create something that is unique, unusual and disturbing. This expensive "fan" film is none of these. I liked the same producer's "Dog Soldiers" very much, but I didn't like "Boo" for the same reason I didn't really like this -- it's an anti-actor film directed by someone who puts special effects before performances. Part of the problem is the script. If there's nothing for an actor to sink his or her teeth into, how can they possible shine? It's a common problem these days, and it prevents films like this from finding a wider audience. Something else that will hurt this film's fortunes is the title. "Cemetery Gates" suggests something in the vein of "Mausoleum", "One Dark Night", "Phantasm" or "Cemetery Man". It does not suggest a monster-on-the-loose flick.
"Welcome to low budget film-making."
posted on 16 Sep 2007~Spoiler~ Cemetery Gates is the film that asks us the question: Who would win in a fight between the Reg Man and a Tasmanian Devil? That's right, the film's monster is a Tasmanian Devil...named Precious. Someone watched Creepshow one too many times. The even introduce the beast in a crate (and in an unrelated incident a character is crushed by a tombstone). But I digress. Cemetery Gates is another goofy mess of a horror film. Phantasm's own Reggie Bannister plays a scientist who has created a genetically enhanced Tasmanian Devil for purposes I can't even remember. Anyway, it's not important. Some crazy environmentalists (who didn't watch 28 Days Later) liberate the thing only to be rewarded with bodily dismemberment. Precious winds up stalking the woods where a group of tweens are shooting a low budget horror movie entitled "Cemetery Gates." Hence the title. I said the film was goofy and, thankfully, it knows this and does not take itself seriously. The director revels in its silliness. Lots of blood and guts are thrown around and the characters act like they are in a low budget horror movie. It's a very tongue in cheek comedy. And the KNB boys seem to be having fun in a cameo role. However, I don't think it works. I was not impressed with any of the jokes or with the monster's appearance. Between Cemetery Gates and Boo, "the producer of Dog Soldiers" is going to have a tough time getting me to watch another film.
I like Monster Movies and this is no exception
posted on 29 Aug 2007Wow! This movie was great...in a cheesy, guy in a monster suit kinda' way. (Which is the best way).A mutated Tasmanian Devil grows to gigantic proportions and goes on a killing spree. The creature design is cool...and not CGI (Yippee!) It's not the best monster suit ever made (That would be either the wolves from The Howling or The Creature from the Black Lagoon), but the filmmakers are not afraid to show it and after it awhile it grows on you and starts to sell better, which is rare.The gore is unparalleled. More blood comes out of the victims in this movie than a human body can hold.And the beastie is strong and the director made sure the audience knows it. I like that. I think monsters should have a destructive power that natural animals can't match. They should flip over cars, lift giant boulders, crash through walls or in the case of Cemetery Gate, toss victims around like rag dolls.Oh...and for those who care, there's multiple incidents of nudity. It's repetitive nudity, but believe me, you won't be bored by it. I tend to agree with the idea this director seemed to have, quality is far more important than quantity.It's fun for fans of monsters and gore, who can overlook budgetary constraints.
Really cheesy and average teen horror flick
posted on 01 Aug 2007Not as bad as to become a classic, not as good as to be counted as film. Vicious and enormous mutated female dog is released by animal activists. It eats and eats until it is destroyed with dynamite.People all look like they're made out of splattering red goo, the monster looks like something from Scrapheap Megawars, the plot is ridiculous, the characters are so few that you may think the movie is based on a play and so cardboard that you may think the film is based on a cardboard game. The humour is dumb, the clichés are overused.There is nothing that twists the plot or that activates any part of the viewers brain. Conclusion: Not worth watching.
I'll take the Warner Brothers Tasmanian Devil Any Day.
posted on 31 May 2007Environmental wackos release a giant, genetically-enhanced Tasmanian Devil in this would-be comedy horror film. I think the filmmakers were trying to make the next "Army of Darkness" or "Shaun of the Dead," but the humor wasn't strong enough to compensate for the implausible and coincidence-ridden story. I might be giving the plot more consideration than the filmmakers themselves, but isn't it a little far-fetched that the monster would be stolen from the laboratory and released at a cemetery where the son of mad scientist who created it was filming a low budget horror film? And that the son considered the monster his pet until it killed his mother. At least the scientist father is played by Reggie Bannister. His presence gave the film a touch of class. The film also suffers from the fact that the vast majority of victims had no bearing on the plot whatsoever. They were just passerbys. I did enjoy the bit were the new agers take drugs to call forth a spirit animal, only to see the monster as an animation. The Hillbillies, however, were so over the top that they made the cast of "Two Thousand Maniacs" seem restrained by comparison. The main problem, however, is the monster itself. I know this film was essentially a comedy, but the monster was ridiculous -- especially in long shots where it was obviously a man in a suit walking on all fours. The monster was about as scary as the shrews in "The Killer Shrews." Along those same lines, some of the gore effects were good, but it obvious the monster isn't really digging into the people when it is clawing them. I'd take the Tasmanian Devil in the Warner Brothers cartoons over this thing any day.
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Reggie Bannister puts the B in B-movies with style.
posted on 29 Jul 2009Firstly I guess most people expected a zombie film with a title like Cemetery Gates, its not this is a fun retro slice of b-movie cheese. About a Tasmanian Devil. Basically its a blood and boobs, gore ridden mutant creature feature with enough throwaway dialogue to please the MST3K style so bad its good fans.I mean sure this won't be in many top 10 Horror films of 2006/07 list/polls. But I bet out of the films that do take up those top 10 places, few are going to be as much fun as this one is.Reggie Bannister is a bona fide cult hero period, for that alone horror/cult genre fans need to dig this out at some point or other.Its been a pretty good 12 months for creature features. I gave this an above average 6/10.