If this had been made in America a decade later, I could see this made with the top choices of the plethora of great elderly actresses: Cloris Leachman and Betty White, or Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis, or perhaps even musicalized with Elaine Stritch and Barbara Cook. Maybe in 1988, Bette Davis and Katherine Hepburn as the kindly sisters who end up flesh craving zombies, and surrounded by a cast of veteran character actors who fill out the plot of a genre once known as barnstormers or the old dark house movie.
But the cast here is filled with Belgian actors, fortunately dubbed, ranging from the two old ladies who come back from the dead when poisoned by a greedy nephew through an ancient curse, and they want the family over for dinner, not as guests but as the main course. So yes, this is a bad taste horror comedy where the acting is pretty bad even though the setting of the Belgian countryside is stunning. The film has a ton of slow moments where the actors dubbing the actual stars speak in a hideous monotone. But when the gruesome moments show up, they provide quite a few laughs. Unfortunately it wears out its welcome very quickly with cheap effects and no real scares. So it's a mixed bag among the old bags and the hateful family where everything literally seems to go to pot.
But the cast here is filled with Belgian actors, fortunately dubbed, ranging from the two old ladies who come back from the dead when poisoned by a greedy nephew through an ancient curse, and they want the family over for dinner, not as guests but as the main course. So yes, this is a bad taste horror comedy where the acting is pretty bad even though the setting of the Belgian countryside is stunning. The film has a ton of slow moments where the actors dubbing the actual stars speak in a hideous monotone. But when the gruesome moments show up, they provide quite a few laughs. Unfortunately it wears out its welcome very quickly with cheap effects and no real scares. So it's a mixed bag among the old bags and the hateful family where everything literally seems to go to pot.