The Graveyard (film)
Introduction '''''The Graveyard''''' is a 2006 American slasher film written by Michael Hurst, directed by Michael Feifer and starring Patrick Scott Lewis. The project was filmed in California.
Plot A group of friends (Jack, Allie, Sarah, Charlie, Michelle, and Eric)head to the Placid Pines Cemetery for a midnight game of hide andseek. Eric is chosen to be the seeker, and begins to count with hiseyes closed as the friends spread out. As he opens his eyes, he sees amasked, knife-wielding man approaching. In fear, he begins to runaway, looking back to see the masked man stab one of his friends. Hekeeps running and slips, impaling himself on protruding bars in thecemetery fence. As he bleeds to death, the friends gather around, withthe masked man revealing himself as Bobby, the seventh friend. Theirpractical joke has gone horribly wrong.Five years later, Michelle testifies at Bobby's probation hearing;apparently, Bobby was charged with manslaughter while the otherfriends were let off. Michelle, Bobby's former lover, has organized areunion of the friends at a campsite near the Placid Pines Cemetery inhopes of bringing closure to the horrific accident that occurredearlier. Bobby is reticent as we learn the status of the otherfriends, clearly upset at having served time for a joke everyone elsewas in on. The friends meet up at the campsite (with Veronica, Jack'sgirlfriend), where they are greeted by the groundskeeper,Peter Bishop, with whom Michelle strikes a good rapport. Meanwhile, inan isolated shed, we see a bloodied man tied to a chair, awakeningonly to be brutally hacked to pieces by a masked assailant.The group reunites, with Bobby making his disdain apparent toeveryone. The group decides to try to relax until dinner, and it isrevealed that Eric's family died a short while after Eric'sdeath—victims of an arson. After sex with Jack is cut short due to premature ejaculation, his girlfriend wanders off to take ashower. She is attacked and brutally murdered by a masked assailant.The group then tries to locate her, and, soon after, Jack is attackedby a masked man. His screams draw the others close, but it is revealed that the masked man isBobby, who is chided for not having not learned his lesson. A light tone returns, thoughVeronica is still missing, as the group returns to the camp. However,Allie and Jack are killed in short order, and as their bodies arediscovered, chaos descends on the surviving friends. Bobby heads fortown and is arrested, as the sheriff is on the lookout for a murderer—a body was located in the woods earlier. Charlie accidentallyelectrocutes Sarah, and is subsequently bitten in the eye by arattlesnake planted by the murderer. Peter and Michelle franticallyrealize they are alone with the killer.The sheriff releases Bobby upon confirming his identity and heads outto scour the woods again. Before Bobby leaves, he sees an incoming faxthat reveals the identity of the body found in the woods: PeterBishop. Back at the camp, "Peter" reveals that he is Adam, Eric'sbrother. A psychopath, he burned down his home, using Eric's exhumedbody as his own to fake his death. He takes Michelle to the cemeteryand tells her to run, much like in the hide-and-seek game in whichEric died. He stalks her, but she is saved by Bobby's timely return.Adam is shot, but as the police close in, they are unable to locatehis body. Some time later, Bobby and Michelle are escorted into apolice car. They sit back, glad to be safe. The driver enters, and wesee in the rear-view mirror that he is none other than Adam.
Cast *Lindsay Ballew as  Michelle*Patrick Scott Lewis as  Bobby*Trish Coren as  Allie*Erin Reese as  Sarah (as Erin Lokitz)*Markus Potter as  Peter Bishop / Adam morris*Christopher Stewart as  Charlie*Mark Salling as  Eric*Sam Bologna as  Sheriff*Eva Derrek as  Veronica*Leif Lillehaugen as  Jack*Natalie Denise Sperl as Zoe*Brett Donowho as  Camper*Jasmes Gallinger as  Bailiff
Reception Mitchell Hattaway of ''DVD Verdict'' panned the film, finding it to be "...boring, illogical in the extreme, and inept", and summarizing his review by writing ''The Graveyard'' "is the worst slasher flick I've ever seen". Andre Manseau reviewed the film for JoBlo and noted that the "characters are painful stereotypes (as per usual), and the acting is at best, passable", concluding the film was forgettable.
Release The film had its video release in June 2006, a TV release in Italy in May 2007, and DVD release in Japan in April 2008.
Notes In an interview with FearNet broadcast in February 2007, it was noted that original plans were for Peter Bishop to be named "Adam Ericsborough" (Adam, Eric's "Bro") in a tongue-in-cheek homage to the cult classic '' I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'', in which one of the characters is named "Will Benson" (Will, Ben's son). However, this was scrapped at the last minute because it was felt that the "reveal" would be more comedic than dramatic, since "borough" and "bro" are not similar-sounding enough.
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