A Deadly Legend

Simply trying to synopsize this "everything but the kitchen sink" low-budget horror movie is enough to indicate just how nonsensical it really is. But it's also poorly written nonsense. A Deadly Legend constantly relies on bad expositional dialogue that no actual human would ever use. It's the kind of movie in which characters are constantly saying each other's names out loud (how often do people do that in real life?) and in which cellphones don't work. And while it does have a multicultural cast, it also falls back on the old cliché of killing the non-White characters first.

Three familiar faces appear in smaller roles (and, of course, are featured prominently in the advertising). Judd Hirsch plays old crank Carl, who runs an antique shop and warns against building on the cursed land. Corbin Bernsen is Matthias, who knows all about the old legend and provides more exposition. And Lori Petty is Wanda, who spends the entire movie either drinking beer or looking for more beer. Truthfully, some of this stuff is (perhaps unintentionally?) pretty funny, and with all of the gratuitous gore, there's a (small) chance that A Deadly Legend could someday qualify as a "so bad, it's good" classic.