Serial killer Jack Harding is scheduled to be executed on the third Saturday in October. Ricky and Vicki, relatives of two of his victims, attend the execution. But when they arrive at the cemetery to make sure he’s put to rest, they discover something’s gone wrong. Jack is out of his coffin and on the loose.
Ricky and Vicki head towards town hoping they can get the police to stop Jack before he kills again. But Jack is ahead of them and who’s going to believe that a dead man’s come back from the grave?
Meanwhile we’ve got more potential victims at the local restaurant, along with the small group of friends partying at some old guys place. Was he an uncle or were they friends of his young girlfriend? I can’t remember.
The movie is put forth as a lost slasher of the 70s that’s recently been discovered and was part of a franchise. There is a second film called Part V, but there is no part II, III or IV. It’s meant to feel like when there were video stores and you had the pick of what wasn’t already rented. So you go in to rent part two, but all copies are already rented and the only one is stock is part five. There is a continuing thread in this film and the Part V about the restaurant Catfish Cabin and a 27 year old cat named Glamourpuss.
The sets are well done and captures the seventies feel with the bright colors in the restaurant, the fabric and wallpaper patterns, and wood paneling. Although the haircut on the teen waitress would be more comfortable in late 60s than the late 70s.
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