Neither That Scary nor Bad Enough to Make Fun Of

Rating: 5/10 (1 April 2015)

I wish I hadn't heard this since I like to go into films without expectations, but right before the movie played in class my buddy talked it up as a really campy film that I would enjoy. Yes there were cheesy and flat-out stupid lines in the film that I laughed at, but these were mainly at the beginning. Also, according to my professor this was supposed to be gut-wrenching scary, but I was ultimately unimpressed with the horror aspects of the movie.
Apparently this title has a rating of NC-17 because of the horror/gore aspects of the film, but I didn't find these elements to be even remotely scary - though I could see how they would be frightening in an early 80s movie. For me, though, when the teens were infected by the spirits, they looked exactly how I expected the un-dead in early 80s movies to look, if not even worse since they had strange tints to their skin. Also, in the second half of the film, there are moments when the spirits just kind of decide to make the infected appear normal for a minute just to fool the main character. So, the un-dead are only un-dead when they choose to be?
I think if there were more funny moments (whether intentionally or unintentionally funny) it would have made the film more enjoyable since I expected to see something very campy, but this was just a plain bad horror film, though nowhere near as bad as Night of the Living Dead. In fact, when I watched Night of the Living Dead it broke so many continuity rules and had so many cheesy parts that I was laughing throughout the film. I guess something like that experience is what I expected, but to me this was just a standard horror film with a low budget.