The Gravedancers Movie Review

Trailer here.

The Gravedancers is a 2006 horror movie directed by Mike Mendez and starring Dominic Purcell and Clare Kramer.

The movie begins with a woman who is facing a supernatural force. She ends up getting hanged and she drops a black envelope. Cut to one year later, a man called Harris McKay(Purcell) returns home for a funeral of a friend. He meets his old friends, Sid(Marcus Thomas) and Kira(Josie Maran). They all go to the cemetery after funeral to say goodbye to their friend. There is a black envelope at the grave. Sid opens it and reads the words on it. They dance on the grave and get drunk. They think no more about it. Harris' wife, Allison(Kramer) gets a weird phone call. Two weeks later, she comes home and she hears weird noises from the bedroom. There is nobody there. She tells Harris about it.

Harris puts in an alarm in the house. He is woken up that night by a piano playing and cat crying. Allison sees a woman in the bedroom. The cops come as the alarm was tripped. Harris and Allison think that it might be Kira as she had stalked him before. They go to Kira's house. Her house is dirty and destroyed inside. There is writing on the wall. They see Kira and she is bitten and disheveled. They call the cops and she sees a doctor. He says that he thinks she was raped. Harris calls Sid who asks him to come over. He has two paranormal investigators, Vincent and Frances with him. Sid thinks that he is being haunted. Vincent hasn't seen anything yet. Allison thinks that she and Harris are being haunted also. She goes on camera talking about what is happening. There is a fire at his house as they talk about it.  It turns out that the words Sid read were a spell. The spell lasts for one month Vincent tells them that they will all die if they can't find out about the graves they danced on.

Kira hides under the bed at the hospital. She and a nurse get attacked.  The others meet up with her and they find out that the grave she danced on was a depraved judge. Sid's was an arsonist kid and Harris' was a killer piano teacher. Vincent has a solution. They need to rebury the bodies to break the spell. Harris is attacked by his ghost. Kira gets trapped in a coffin and Sid gets set alight. They are rescued by Vincent. They get the bones of the dead and they rebury them. They think that they are okay. That is not the case. The ghosts attack again. It turns out that Frances kept the skulls of the ghosts as evidence of what happened. Kira and Sid are killed by their ghosts. Harris is hunted by his. It kills Frances. Allison escapes. Harris has to face the ghost. He has her skull. Allison drives a jeep through the house and into the ghost. It chases them until Vincent manages to return to the skull to the corpse and break the spell. The ghost is vanquished. The movie ends with Harris and Allison in the cemetery after the funerals of Sid and Kira. They don't see a black envelope being placed on one of the graves....

This film is entertaining in parts and the ghost scenes are decent. The cast aren't bad either. The only person I really recognised was Purcell, who also starred in Prison Break. It's not the greatest film but it is worth a look. I will give it a 5/10.