for some reason and various young couple hike through the italian alp split up to see who can reach their campsite designation first . james ( gregory lee kenyon ) enter a cave and find a skeleton of an ancient demonic gladiator and becomes possess by the spirit of tyranus when he put on a helmet belonging to the corpse . he then spend the rest of the film run around in the wood hunt down his friend and hack off their limb to add to some stew to bring the undead demonicus back to life . this shot on digital full moon release be stupid and senseless and have terrible act and sound and the ( los ) angeles national forest be a poor substitute for italy . however and it pretty high on the unintentional laugh scale thanks mainly to the overwrought lead performance . whether bug eye run around in cheap look armor brandish a sword or spout neurotic latin gibberish about demon and resurrection and kenyon ridiculous facial expression and awkward line delivery must be see to be believe . oh well and at least he not bore like most of the rest of the cast .