All Souls Day began life on the Sci-Fi Channel as one of their original films. I remember watching it and not really thinking all that much of it. Now, here we are, a few months later, and Anchor Bay has just released the film in all of its uncut zombie filled glory. Well, sort of.
The movie starts in the late 1800's, when the head honcho of a small Mexican town kills all of its residents during a celebration. The celebration was on the Day of the Dead when they were also celebrating the discovery of ancient treasure. Of course, fearless leader, Vargas (Danny Trejo) wants it for himself, and buries the townsfolk alive inside the mine. Fast forward to the 1950's. A family, led by patriarch Jeffrey Combs, arrives in the town looking for a gas station and place to spend the night. What they find are creepy woman, and a horde of zombies intent on separating the Combs family from their lives. Fast forward again, after a presumably successful zombie attack, we are now in the present day, where the bulk of our story takes place.
Joss (Travis Wester) and Alicia (Marisa Ramirez, a dead ringer for Jessica Alba) are raveling through Mexico, on their way to Alicia's folks new ranch. Needing a place to stop, they stumble upon this cursed town. They arrive just in time to narrowly avoid running over a funeral procession, and in turn, discovering a naked, living woman tumble out of the coffin. Turns out she had her tongue cut out and was set to be used as a sacrifice.
Joss and Alicia, just think that there are some weird folks in the area. In order to help pass the time, they place a call to a couple of pals, Tyler and Nicole, to come down and join them. Warnings from the hotel's hostess, Esmeralda, fall on deaf ears until it is too late. Dio de los muertos is upon us. The zombies have risen from the ground in search of blood, and revenge. It is during the final act that the truth is revealed, although it is a little convoluted and doesn't explain everything, there it is.
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