Yule Log, The Poor Man's Evil Dead

Fans of Polonoia Bros. Entertainment films will love this one.  Who else would give you a hybrid of "The Evil Dead" and "Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster"?  Kind of like mixing "Ordinary People" with "Shaft."  That smooth.  Two of our favorites, Jeff Kirkendall and Jamie Morgan will grace the screen delivering bone chilling scares and holiday metaphor.  Today we look at "Yule Log," directed by Mark Polonia.

Ancient Saxons burned a witch at the stake named Druinda (Christopher Beacom).  Centuries later, two good blokes, Charles (Kirkendall) and Roy (Tim Hatch) pick up their recently widowed buddy Earl (Michale Korotitsch) for a deer hunting weekend.  The trio reach an isolated cabin in the woods.  Meanwhile, Robin's (Morgan) car is forced off the road by monster tree roots.  The roots chase her to the cabin.  Beaten, bloodied, and in shock, the three men take her in.  Uh oh...Druinda is back from the dead.  See, Charles and Earl went out for firewood and cut up the dead tree the witch was staked to.  After burning the wood...Druinda is re-animated.  Conjuring up tree monsters and their roots, the witch begins its attack on the cabin.

The men do a fine job at securing the place.  Uh oh...Robin is no longer in shock.  She is also not Robin anymore...but a demon taken right from "The Evil Dead."  She wants to swallow souls and looks really ugly.  Now with foes on the inside and outside of the cabin, the men find a rusty machete and a crossbow. Yes!  Have we ever had a bad movie that utilized a crossbow?  Exactly!  Druinda gets stronger and the roots now strangle the cabin putting more pressure on it than was on the Titan when it went poof!  Jeff Kirkendall may not be Bruce Campbell, but with a crossbow...can he be far behind?

Will the tree roots have their way with Robin as they did with Bruce Campbell's GF in "The Evil Dead"? Do any of these three buddies have a shot at survival or will one of them be sucked into an alternate dimension? Is Druinda a metaphor for our Modern Era in America which seeks to mar Christmas and all its celebrations? This is a fun one and when Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster shows up, you will cheer so loud you will cry. See "Yule Log" today.