THE DEAD MATTER is a thoroughly embarrassing Z-grade B-movie about vampires, featuring a local American town menaced by the undead. It makes Charles Band's SUBSPECIES series look like a masterwork of modern cinema by comparison, and from the first scene in which a cameoing Andrew Divoff sports an awful long blonde wig you just know it's going to be total trash.
And so it proves. This is an attempted mix of exploitation values but generally it appeals to the lowest common denominator. The acting is trashy, the script stupid, the direction non-existent. Tom Savini shows up to give a typically hammy performance but you actually feel sorry to see him mired in this mess of a movie. A bit of sexual content and zero horror is all this has to offer.
And so it proves. This is an attempted mix of exploitation values but generally it appeals to the lowest common denominator. The acting is trashy, the script stupid, the direction non-existent. Tom Savini shows up to give a typically hammy performance but you actually feel sorry to see him mired in this mess of a movie. A bit of sexual content and zero horror is all this has to offer.