since jason and his ilk take over horror film circa 1980 most every horror film have involve a group of hormonally charge teenager be chop to bit with the focus on the chopping and not the suspense . this little film be different . make in the early 80 it do what every good horror film should do bring your bad fear to life while you sit around just know that these horror be just around the corner . then and you make those horror simmer and just do not turn it into a lesson on the biology of butchering . the story feature meg tilly right before she have a short live turn with fame start with the big chill and then slip back into obscurity in the early 90 . meg play an outcast teenager who be just die to get into the good grace of some classic mean girl . they tell her she can be part of their little group if she spend the night in a crypt . the mean girl intend to scare her and cause her to leave the crypt thus give them a double reward far torment the outcast girl and have an excuse to reject her . meanwhile famed occultist karl rhamarevich have die a bizarre death shortly after have claim to have discover a way to return from the grave and upon his return command great magical power . his daughter doesn not believe this at first and but she listen to a tape about her father experiment which include his successful animation of small dead animal and of his plan to emerge from the grave with the power to animate big game and draw further power from these animation . she also learn that she may have inherit her father power and may be the only person who can stop him should he actually rise from the dead . i think you know where this story be head and so i will stop here . do i mention the magician be entomb in the same crypt in which meg tilly character be spend the night . i will mention that the commercial dvd contain this film do look somewhat degraded compare to what you would expect from a film that be make so recently . i saw it on tv in the mid 1980 and i remember it look good than this . the problem be that the original negative of the film be never locate so the dvd have to be create from a print . this mean it come complete with dirt and scratch . this be worth check out for any horror fan . it be an independently make film and an example of the kind of unusual stuff that you could commonly find on late night tv until the infomercial turn that time slot into a vast wasteland circa 1986. only tcm underground air this kind of film anymore .