The Boneyard (1991)
8/10
A blissfully bonkers, delightfully deviant, eyeball-poppingly eerie celluloid cult classic
22 December 2020
'The Boneyard' is arguably one of the more indelibly strange examples of gruesomely FX-laden monster movies spawned in the slimy wake of 80s horror 'slay-day'. The twisted-brainchild of sassy director/special FX wizard, James Cummins remains an eccentric, fiendishly funny, spectacularly kooky, karo syrup-soaked splatter-fest. 'The Boneyard' mischievously mines the same hilariously histrionic horror territory as, Peter Jackson's legendary 'Braindead' and, Brian Yuzna's shunt-fest 'Society'. An outrageous, blissfully bonkers, delightfully deviant, eyeball-poppingly eerie celluloid cult classic which is no less demented today than when it was first conceived!

A weary, 'seen-it-all' cop (Ed Nelson), his carrot-topped, rookie partner (James Eusterman) and a depressed, burnt-out psychic (Deborah Rose) fatefully unearth the grim truth behind appalling torture/murder of three children. Their supernaturally twisted, stomach-churningly macabre discovery bloodily heralds a breathlessly unrestrained terror tumult of ever-increasing dementia.'The Bone Yard' culminates gorily in an exhilarating, ferociously flesh-flaying, explicitly pus-spattered finale, wherein our zombie-beleaguered trio desperately attempt to fend off a relentlessly rapacious assault of monstrously corrupted, satanically revivified corpses!

Any gloriously ghoulish, generously goo-splattered horror movie ominously set in a vast derelict morgue, snarkily run by a permanently pissed off, Phyllis Diller has bona fide cult potential! Factor in it being violently overrun with singularly nightmarish, panther-swift, gore-gobbling goblins, and 'Bone Yard' excitingly delivers a shudder-rich surfeit of gruesomely exaggerated, grue-spattered B-Horror insanity! Any avid zombie maniac who have not yet dared to take a timorous peek inside 'The Boneyard' are in for one uniquely freaked-out splatter-slathered shriek-a-thon!

'Trapped inside the diabolical domain of 'The Boneyard' it isn't only the dead that can't rest in peace! After you've witnessed this sinister cavalcade of cadaver cannibalizing creepiness you'll leave the movie theatre...in pieces!'
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