Truly Dreadful Film

Sadly Over-hyped

Memorable, crazy movie

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a movie that was actually made way back in the 1950's, but wasn't released until 1993! That must be some record! This has to be one of the most boring movies I've seen in a long time. The movie starts by saying that this event is based on a true story. I know better than to trust any real life claims about the paranormal. This movie features a woman who's killed by a crossbow and most of this movie is nothing but detectives interviewing people. That's all there is! The characters are annoying and everyone is just so inactive in this film.I was at least hoping we would see some cool story about ghosts, but there were no ghosts at all! I believe at the end, it turns out that the woman didn't die at all, and the very few paranormal stuff we saw was just illusions. Yep, this movie title lied! It was talking about talking with the dead and it never even did that. I guess there might have been some supernatural stuff in this, but I didn't care to notice. While I don't believe in talking to the dead, this movie should have had some to make it interesting! *1/2

The field of meta-physics or "ghost studying" if you prefer is actually one of the more interesting fields out there. While unproven and with a very high chance of "hauntings" being explained, the occasional event that defies any explanation is quite thrilling. So it doesn't surprise me that the director or whoever was in charge of the the story was fascinated by this field.It doesn't change the fact that it's a piece of crap.Frankly the only reason this film didn't haunt the participants was due to the mercy of film obscurity that lasted for 30 years. The only person who truly suffered was the unlucky person who found it and watched it in it's uncut glory. By "uncut" I mean without the MST3K commentary. Definitely one of the funnier episodes of the late Comedy Central era. The funniest part has to be the scream uttered by the woman who finds the body. Definitely one of the funniest screams that I have heard.If you want to learn more about meta-physics, I suggest the series "Ghost Hunters".

In this hilariously idiotic horror flick, a droll, overacting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad-lookalike builds a machine to ask a murder victim who killed her. "The Dead Talk Back" is the sort of movie that even Ed Wood would have considered amateur...and I love it just for that. I should note that probably the easiest place to find this stinker is on "MST3K". On that episode, not only do Mike, Servo and Crow turn the movie into a mixture of Eddie Deezen, "Bewitched", and other things, they dress up like the other dead: the Grateful Dead.So, it's a delightfully pathetic piece of cinema history. You're sure to love it. Too bad that they didn't show more of Renee in that one scene; she was hot.

Dreadful, awful, terrible mishmash that sat on the shelf for almoost 30 years before the Best Brains guys(the loonies behind MST3K) decided to unleash its stench upon an unsuspecting world. A strange goober with weird facial hair invents, among udder things, coffin horns, and a device which transmits radio signals so that the "so-called dead" can cowmoonicate with the living. He's called on to investigate the pointless murder of a female border, killed by a curtain rod. Everyone in the film is an idiot or a caricature. We see the murder toss his shoes in the drink, but hide the murder weapon at the scene under some leaves and newspapers. Another idiot spouts out hilarious religious "testimonials". One character, "Fritz Kreuger", looks like child molestation personified. Several voice-overs, each sounding like the udder, cowtribute to the cowfusion. This is one of those rare bungles that not only looks as though they hired soup kitchen bums to act, but was probably filmed right there at the soup kitchen! The first ten minutes of this film are about as clear as a septic tank, and it goes downhill from there. One funny mooment occurs when one of the dippy children(director's kids!), who apparently live in a closet, remarks "Haaallelujiah!". It doesn't appear that anyone involved with this sorry mess ever worked in the biz again, moooch to our cowlective relief. This stilted, half-baked mess is the responsibility of Merle S. Gould, who wrote, produced, and directed this failure on less than a shoe string budget. No wonder it sat on a shelf unreleased for 30 years! Even for schlock fans, it's pretty heavy going, and not nearly as funny as the MST3K 'bots make it out to be. The MooCow says these "Dead" shoulda' stayed in the ground, where they belonged. Only schlock cowpleatists(such as the MooCow!) need bother with this flimsy flop. :=8P