DEAD SHACK is another horror B-movie set in the usual cabin in the woods. This one's Canadian and seems to have been made as a cross between TURBO KID (the goofy style, the costumes) and THE EVIL DEAD (the setting, the supernatural beings). It's dark and dingy and saddled with some of the most annoying protagonist characters in a movie, with stupid and obnoxious teenager characters swapping idiotic 'teen' dialogue that's an offense to hear. Thankfully, after a while the plot spurs into motion and there's a lot of gory incident to take your mind off the predictability of it all, although it pales in comparison to the new EVIL DEAD flick as well as films like WITHER, and of course the original classics.

Roger takes his two kids, Summer and Colin, and their friend Jason to a vacation cabin in the woods. Summer hates her young stepmom Lisa. The kids take a walk and find a house with disturbing evidence. A woman (Lauren Holly) brings home two douchebags and the kids spy her feeding the two men to her zombie.

Summer and Jason are a little bit adorable. Colin is annoyingly stupid. Stupidity is one of the more annoying tropes in teen characters if they're not funny at it. Roger is also really stupid but at least, he can blame the alcohol. I'm actually with who gets killed. I wouldn't mind if we lose one more specific character. This is a low budget comedy horror indie competently made. It's not horrible but it's not good either.

Roger (Donavon Stinson) is the patriarch of the amusingly dysfunctional Slade family. A single dad who act as he is still in his adolescence. He was a self-centered girlfriend (Valerie Tian) who loves the bottle more than him. He takes them all on vacation to the cheapest cabin he can find on Craig's List. Jason (Matthew Nelson-Mahood) a dweeb friend of son Colin (Gabriel LaBelle ) joins the group. He is shy and likes daughter Summer (Lizzie Boys).

The cabin they rent is an area of missing people and we know that they are being fed to zombies by Lauren Holly as they are her family. We have no idea how they got that way, only that Lauren wears riot gear and a welders mask when she is around them. Of course, their paths comically cross.

This is a comedy-horror that I loved. The dialogue and characters were a joy to watch. Granted there were a few scenes that could have been done better and to be honest I was not aware of "Go-Fish" foreplay. It is such a thing. My only question was how does one run around at night with a welders' mask and dark lens?

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Subtitles on Blu-ray in both English and Spanish.