I wanted to but couldn't!

As Good As It Gets

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

THE NEON DEAD is an offbeat, low budget comedy horror about a woman whose home has being home to some sinister zombie demons, causing her to call in the services of a couple of paranormal exterminators in order get them exorcised. The original title of this film was INVASION OF THE UNDEAD before the new title, linking it in to THE NEON DEMON.Whichever way you look at it, this is pretty silly and hampered by the non-existent budget. I appreciate that it marks an attempt to do something different but overall the effect is less than the sum of its parts. The film has a distinctive visual style with lots of vivid colour schemes and sepia flashbacks which recall the likes of Lovecraftian fiction. The zombie puppets are quite arresting with their glowing eyes but in the end they are just that, puppets, and the mannered acting is more grating than anything else.