Just the Ticket #19: The Glee and the Darkness

The last movie this week before I make my promised return to the Dead Parade is Beneath the Darkness, a small screen homage to humorous horror (I just realized I did that. Haha!).
A gleefully wacky Dennis Quaid steals the show as high school quarterback-turned-mortician Mr. Ely, who has gone Norman Bates following the death of his wife two years prior to the events of Darkness. In classic Rear Window fashion, a group of teens witness some strange happenings at Ely's Funeral Home and decide to break into the residence to investigate. The usual coincidental subject matter (the teens are reading Macbeth and The Telltale Heart in their English class), murdered and jailed protagonists, and a final damning showdown run their course, but are made downright entertaining by Quaid's performance (who, along with executive producer Bruce Wilkinson and director Martin Guigui, also contributed to the soundtrack).
Nothing I haven't seen before as far as horror movies go, but not terribly gory, not dependent on cacophony scares, and, once again, entertaining.
B+

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