December 30, 2014Troma's 'The Newlydeads' had a pretty strong beginning but unfortunately it wasn't able to hold on to it and the movie more or less fell apart as it went on. It started with a young, blonde woman checking in to the Newlywed Hotel, where the manager decided to give her the deluxe hotel experience (if you know what I mean). She went along with it too until the manager accidentally pulled her wig off while they were kissing and found out she was a he. Then the manager got mad and stabbed him to death. Fifteen years later, several couples go to the hotel (including the manager himself on the night of his wedding). At his wedding he sees the walking corpse of the man he killed dressed in a wedding gown. Nobody else sees it except for a conveniently psychic woman and her husband when they run over the ghost in their van. Then the psychic starts trying to help the manager get rid of the ghost before people start dying (but people start dying anyway). I think this was about the point when I started losing some interest. For starters, the psychic knew that the manager was a murderer, but she still insisted on helping him. Also, she knew certain things before they happened - she knew people were going to die but she didn't know who, and she somehow knew how to get rid of the ghost. I won't give the ending away, in case you want to watch it, but I will say that two specific events made me dislike the ending of this movie. They both involved the psychic (and one involved her husband). The one thing the movie really did have going for it was some cool looking makeup and special effects. The ghost looked fantastic. You can watch the whole movie on YouTube here:
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