Okay the time has come. Anyone bothering to watch? Sounds like it's being successful at what it's trying to be, anyway.
With a pedigree one would find only on MTV (the idea came from Spider One, founder of the band Powerman 5000, and was written by Julie Kellman Reading and Austin Reading, who have produced, among other things, the various "Scream Awards" on Spike), "Death Valley" looks and sounds like it was made by a bunch of smart, nerdy high school sophomores who somehow persuaded a few actual actors to participate. Certainly, the blood and gore — magenta, sticky, probably medicinally sweet — appear to have been purchased directly off the back page of a Tales from the Crypt comic book.
But that's part of the fun. The setting of "Death Valley" is land of the "Super 8" fantasy, home to Steven Spielberg and the porn industry, where a video camera is a birthright. Here, a zombie/vampire/werewolf takeover is just another local situation, along with fire season, earthquakes, meth labs and prostitution.
can't wait till later on tonight.





