The Dead Pit is a thrilling horror
directed by Brett Leonard. The film starts with a
crazed doctor / serial killer Dr. Ramzi (Danny Gochnauer)
who performs open brain experiments on his patients, eventually turning them
into crazed blood thirsty zombies. Within the confines of the asylum his
colleague Dr.
Gerald Swan (Jeremy Slate)
finds out what he is doing in the cellar with the missing patients and ends up
killing him and sealing up the cellar chamber with the patients and him in it,
hoping that he can look past the gruesome experiments’ his partner performed
within the asylum. Twenty years later the asylum is run by his partner who is a
bit more kind on the human psyche, when one day a Jane Doe (Cheryl Lawson) appears complaining that she
remembers her memory being removed and nothing else diagnosed with amnesia.
Meanwhile during an eruption of earth quakes the seals to the chamber break
open releasing the angry spirit of Dr. Ramzi and the zombie patients onto the
unsuspecting new patients within the state institute. With Jane Doe’s
acquaintance at the hospital Christian Meyers
(Stephen Foster) they fight the relentless
army of zombies finding their weakness and entombing them back to where they
came from. The Dead Pit is a fun Horror/Thriller
with many convincing actors and well done effects, this blast from the past is
a must see. The Dead Pit is now available on DVD.
