When the kids are home, or just one of them, I try to make sure we have something that will be at least somewhat entertaining to watch for movie night. My daughter wasn't being very helpful picking a movie, so I scoured the horror list and picked Riders of the Whistling Skull. I had skipped a few movies, but the summary sounded right up our alley.
This movie was sold as a supernatural western. Now that's different! There's the Three Mesquiteers (apparently, they're famous for making 51 B-Westerns) helping a woman find her father. He's disappeared while searching for treasure out at the lost city of Lukachukai.
You know what wasn't in this movie? Anything supernatural. Both summaries mentioned that word, but I'm not sure they actually watched the movie. It also said something about a mummy, but it was just an old lady who tried to murder somebody. This movie was awful. We never even found out what happened to the treasure.
It was still early, so we decided to try a zombie movie. In this one, a priest claims that he knows the secret of making zombies (in this case, zombie means robotic or mind control). He gets killed for the knowledge, and then an expedition is sent to destroy the knowledge at the source. Armand is in love with a woman who uses him, and that starts his villain arc to where he ends up having a whole zombie army.
This one was super weird. I get that he was heartbroken, but he needed to get away from those people. I don't think growing your zombie army was going to help. And then when he released them all at the end, was he pleased he had showed that stupid woman he loved her? It was just a dumb reason to have zombies. I didn't realize it, but this movie was supposed to be a sequel to a Bela movie called White Zombie. A lawsuit prevented the movie from telling people that, but the creepy eyes that popped up on the screen all the time were actually Bela's! So he was in the movie, and we didn't even know it!
It's interesting how we all saw the movies. Some of us thought the first one was beyond dull since there wasn't anything supernatural. Others considered it interesting because "at least something was happening." The rest of us, myself included, enjoyed the zombie movie more. It was more ridiculous and had some very silly "green screen" moments. And the plot was insane, Overall, I wouldn't recommend either of these movies, but I would definitely say if you're looking to watch a movie with anything supernatural, steer clear of Riders of the Whistling Skull. The most dangerous things in there are the unstable cliffsides and the stagnant water.
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