Rave to the grave is another made for TV production that tried to be a direct continuation from four and failed miserably. All the kids, even the dead ones, are now in college going to parties, falling in love and trying new drugs. The gang even witnesses the undead attacking and think its a Halloween prank. I could buy that if Necrophilis hasn't feature them deal with these creatures before, but since they have they could've been more cautious or investigated further into the matter instead of letting it go.Trioxine has been converted by a school lab into a highly lethal drug once taken gives you the ultimate high until your consumed by the urge to eat brains. I like the idea they were going for, return the series back to its roots, with punk rock teenagers who like to party yet the execution was off from all humor thrown in. Every time a zombie bite someone they were played for laughs or when was stalking near at the big rave an extra would compliment them on their killer costume. The music consisted mostly of rap which isn't my bag and dates it a bit in terms of what year its suppose to be.Whatever happened between the break in between the films the chemistry they once had is gone and now feels artificial and phoney. Though it tried to capture what ever spark the last one had it didn't cut it in humor or horror and was a flop. Time to leave the zombies in the graveyard until a truly exceptional script comes along to revive them once more.

This is a horrible, horrible movie. Do not watch this if you're looking for quality. If however, you are looking for something to laugh at, this might be a good pick. There are some genuinely ridiculous elements, some quotably bad lines, and some comically low-budget special effects. And there are breasts. It is 86 minutes of brain-hungry lab rats, cheerleaders getting bitten in the butt, and ambiguously foreign bad guys that end up dressed like female vikings. The fact that the climax takes place at a rave, and that the movie came out about five years after rave culture effectively died out, makes it even more campy and off-target. I had a hard time deciding whether to give this movie just one star, or all 10. I believe it is a success because it does actually achieve something. It's easy to make a film that is mediocre, say, four or five stars, but you know there's something special when it's really this bad.

Granted that none of the sequels compares to the original, this movie is quite good. Filmed in Romania, it has very good production values for a B-movie. The visuals are good, the effects are good, although it looks like some gore may have been edited out; the cast is so so. The re-recording has it's problems. The story worked for me: a college kid discovers tanks of the infamous trioxin at his dead uncles home. His buddies try it immediately to see if it makes them high and then start selling it as a drug. Meanwhile, two goofy Interpol agents are on the search for all trioxin tanks out there. There are a few funny moments, perhaps not as many as the producers intended. The gore effects are excellent, the main zombie that appears later in the movie looks great. Speaking of looking great, there are plenty of hot babes who don't mind getting topless. I guess it takes foreign filmmakers to bring back fun horror movies the way they're supposed to be: bloody, gory, fun, with hot naked chicks. If you're tired of PG-13 "horror" with no gore and no nudity, then this movie is worth checking out.

This final (?) film in the Return Of The Living Dead horror film franchise puts a final nail in the lid of the coffin for this series. The film has little to do with previous entries, except for the Trioxcin gas found in the barrels. Supposedly this is a sequel to part 4. Some of the main characters return, true. They have graduated from high school and are now in college. The problem lies in the fact that they have all seemingly forgotten what befell them in the previous film. So when the barrel with the gas and the zombies do show up, it is as if it is all brand new. Heck, even main character Julian seems to have forgotten that he hates his uncle (Peter Coyote in a very small cameo) after the events of the last film. The zombies are not very exciting visually (mostly some grey skin and latex cheekbones) and the rules of how they act seem to change as the story decrees it necessary. For instance, at times they can run and later on they can only shuffle about. Its too bad that the series had to go out on such a low note. It really did deserve better than this.