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10/5/06 at 6:44am
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Dead and Breakfast - Lame horror comedy about a group of friends stranded in a small Texas town. Now if that weren't bad enough, there's an outbreak of zombies (sort of)! In the vein of Cabin Fever and just as bad, much of the humor is dumb and out of place. Decent gore and that's about it.

*1/2 out of ****

Goreometer rating: **1/2 out of ****


Tombs of the Blind Dead - Revisited this atmospheric undead opus about a band of evil zombie knights who roam the Italian countryside in search of blood.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
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10/5/06 at 4:07pm
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I saw NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D (2006) at the World 3-D Film Expo II recently. The cast and director were there. Luckily, it was presented in the tradional polarized, clear glasses format, unlike the general release version which will be shown in red/cyan anaglyph.

I was surprised that I liked it as much as I did. It wasn't a straight scene for scene remake this time, which I appreciated. Decent acting, good makeup, though I would have liked to have seen more gore. Blood did splatter off the screen a couple of times which was fun.

They put all the money they had on the screen; it looks pretty professional. I was expecting some John Russo type DTV junk.

The stereoscopic aspect was well handled. Excellent use of depth, especially in one nighttime scene with the zombies all on different levels and the house in the background. It isn't overly gimmicky like the 1980's 3-D films; though of course they do throw in a few such shots. Again, I saw the film in polarized format, so I don't know how well the red/blue anaglyph conversion will work. It's too bad they are going the anaglyph route for theatrical; I wish they'd just hold off the release and ride the digital 3D wave instead.

The DVD release will include an anaglyph 3-D version as well, at least that is the plan.

Not bad; far better than most of the DTV zombie stuff that hit video store shelves weekly it seems.
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10/7/06 at 9:36pm
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Return of the Evil Dead - Second installment in the Blind Dead series is on par with the first and gorier to boot. Another group of evil knights returns from the dead and raids a village, slaughtering everyone in sight. Survivors hole up in a church and get picked off. News at eleven.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: *** out of ****
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10/13/06 at 8:54am
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Nightmare City - Zombies Italiano from director Umberto Lenzi. Irradiated ghouls spill out of an unmarked cargo plane that makes an unexpected landing at an airport. After wiping out the welcome wagon, the zombies invade a nearby city! As if that weren't bad enough, these zombies are fast AND use weapons! Fairly entertaining as far as Italian living dead movies go, with hit and miss makeup and f/x. Weird ending.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: *** out of ****


Edit: thought I'd recommend this

Perfect reading for a cold winter's night - just grab a cup of hot chocolate, kick back in a comfy armchair and enjoy hundreds of pages of zombie adventures!
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10/16/06 at 8:53pm
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Revenge of the Living Dead Girls - More weird Euro horror. Three women are felled by toxic waste-laced milk and return as zombies, killing anyone who gets in their way. A bit nastier than the usual fare, but also rather spotty.

**1/2 out of ****

Goreometer rating: ***1/2 out of ****


Battlefield Baseball - Bizarre Japanese ode to the game of baseball plays like a cross between The Bad News Bears and Battle Royale and throws in mallet-wielding mothers, musical numbers, undead opponents and a surprise narrator - and that's just the half of it! Too crazyquilt to be totally successful, but fun in a demented way.

**1/2 out of ****

Goreometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
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10/25/06 at 9:30pm
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The Crazies - George Romero's low budget horror thriller about a small town infected with a military-created virus that either kills you or drives you mad. A handful of survivors make a run for it but must evade capture by the military. But are they themselves infected? Not technically a zombie movie, but for all intents and purposes it is - let's call it a quasi-zombie flick.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: **1/2 out of ****


Slither - Gooey throwback to the monster movies of yore has alien slugs trying to take over the world via human hosts who turn into zombie-like ghouls. Funny and gleefully gory.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: *** out of ****


Hide and Creep - Innocuous title aside, this is actually an entertaining little low budget zombie flick. Plot-wise there's nothing new: a motley group of people try to get out of town after an uprising of zombies, but there's plenty of humor with much of it aimed at film buffs. I'm not sure if the zombie makeup was intentionally bad and that subplot about alien abductions could have been dispensed with, but despite these bumps it's a fun ride.

"Daddy! I've been fighting zombies all day!"

"Yeah, they're stinky aren't they?"

"Yeah."

**1/2 out of ****

Goreometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
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10/28/06 at 10:23pm
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Dead Men Walking - A convict infected with a biotoxin causes an outbreak of flesh-eating zombies in a maximum security prison. Stylistically a rip-off of 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead '04, but it's still one of the better zombie flicks you've never heard of. Grim and gory.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: ***1/2 out of ****
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10/30/06 at 10:57pm
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Cemetery Man - Or Dellamorte Dellamore if you want to sound cool. Michele Soavi's philosophical zombie flick about a cemetery caretaker whose quest for love is constantly interrupted by those who won't stay dead. A tad long, but that bizarre ending is some sort of classic.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: *** out of ****
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11/13/06 at 7:53am
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Defenceless - Strange Aussie blend of the revenge and zombie genres finds a woman coming back from the dead to get revenge on the despicable real estate developers who murdered her and her family (not to mention her lesbian lover!). Interesting at times, but also draggy and filmed for some reason with no dialogue. If you wanna see a guy get forcefed his own penis, this is the film for you!

**1/2 out of ****

Goreometer rating: *** out of ****
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11/21/06 at 7:46am
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Haeckel's Tale - John McNaughton's entry in the Masters of Horror series about a young medical student who wants to follow in Dr. Frankenstein's footsteps. Eventually this leads to zombie sex. One of the better entries.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: *** out of ****


Tokyo Zombie - Fun Japanese Shaun of the Dead (with a dash of Land of the Dead). A toxic trash dump spawns a horde of flesh-eating zombies, putting to the test a pair of jujitsu-loving best friends. Takes a neat left turn halfway through.

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
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11/23/06 at 2:30pm
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More low budget zombie mayhem and the debut of my new Splatometer!


Deadlands: The Rising - A terrorist attack using biological weapons results in the world being overrun by the living dead (fast variety). Five people in Baltimore must then fight their way home. That's about it. The cool sequence with the zombies attacking motorists trapped in a traffic jam aside, this is typical indie undead fare, but with an especially abbreviated running time (72 minutes) that really doesn't allow the film to breathe.

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: **1/2 out of ****


Shatter Dead - Weird zombie flick akin to They Came Back (but with a much lower budget). The dead have ceased being dead and roam the world trying to get the living to join them. No flesh-eating here, just lots of angst and bizarre goings-on as the tough heroine tries to get home to her boyfriend. Some interesting questions are raised, but nothing that hasn't been debated before in vampire movies. Worth a look, but beware that pistol sex and undead abortions abound!

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
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11/25/06 at 6:09am
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Night of the Dead: Leben Tod - This poor man's Re-Animator also concerns an attempt to defeat death via an injected serum. Spurred by the deaths of his wife and daughter, a scientist tries desperately to perfect his life-giving serum, all the while depositing his "mistakes" (aka raving cannibalistic ghouls) in his basement. Of course, eventually, they escape... Tries hard, but lacks the gleeful abandon of Re-Animator. Not too bad taken on its own though, and pretty gory.

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: ***1/2 out of ****
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11/25/06 at 6:36am
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SteveGon, I feel that you need to explain your change from the Goreometer rating to the Splatometer rating. Is this just a cosmetic change or is there a deeper philospohical reason?
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11/25/06 at 6:52am
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I just thought Splatometer sounded cooler.
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11/27/06 at 10:33am
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Well, ain't this just the coolest thing ever?

Ash vs. Marvel Zombies Pic

(Nice to see they're continuing the tradition of paying zombie homage to classic Marvel comic book covers; in this case, X-Men #141.)

The whole story

Yeah, I know it ain't a movie, but it effin' should be!
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12/5/06 at 6:26am
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Braindead (aka Dead Alive) - Or, Mum Meets a Sumatran Rat Monkey. Revisited Peter Jackson's splatacular zombie comedy.

"Your mother ate my dog!"

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: **** out of ****


Lawrence of Zombania - Bizarre comedy short has two buddies driving through the woods where they pick up a crazed hobo. The drifter then convinces them to help him in his search for the grave and gold of....T.E. Lawrence? But before they can get to the treasure, they'll have to fight off an army of zombies! (Luckily they run into an armed-to-the-teeth redneck!) The title is the best thing about the movie, though it's actually made with a degree of competence and the zombie makeup is quite decent. Maybe I should send my copy to Rob Tomlin?

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
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12/5/06 at 10:31am
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The Quick and the Undead - Silly title aside, this turned out to be a decent little zombie western, set in the modern west after a strange virus has unleashed an army of the hungry living dead. A lone bounty hunter who specializes in hunting zombies squares off against an outlaw gang who wants the undead bounty trade all to themselves. And their leader has a nasty plan to increase buisness! Stiff lead aside (he's no Clint Eastwood), this is pretty good given its low budget. Recommended!

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
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12/10/06 at 5:52am
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Maplewoods - An army special forces team is sent to an abandoned scientific research facility with orders to destroy it and its occupants: a horde of flesh-eating zombies! Tries in earnest, but its reach exceeds its grasp (or low budget I should say).

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
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12/11/06 at 11:31am
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Biozombie - Asian variant on Dawn of the Dead finds the usual mix of strangers trapped in a mall with hungry zombies. Comedy-infused film is cheesy but fun, with a surprisingly downbeat finale.

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
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12/11/06 at 1:16pm
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Cool.
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12/15/06 at 2:17pm
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The Children - A radioactive cloud turns a group of children into toxic zombies who like nothing better than to fry unsuspecting adults with their deadly hands. Surprisingly good (and grim) Troma production.

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****
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12/19/06 at 10:14pm
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Dorm of the Dead - Or, How to Make a Zombie Movie for a $1.25. It's the campus bitch vs. the campus goth chick in this zombies go to college opus. Hilariously bad acting and cheesy makeup effects are leavened with t & a and some good chuckles. Funny thing: I can suspend my disbelief and accept zombies, but no way will I believe that a college guy would turn down his hot girlfriend's invitation to join her and another hot chick in a threesome. Riiiiiiiight. Mrs. Howard Stern shows up for about a minute.

"What's the matter? Something you drink disagree with you? Like, oh, I don't know, ZOMBIE BLOOD?!"

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


Zombie Nation - Ulli Lommel disasterpiece about a serial killer cop whose female victims come back for revenge. Some good ideas here, but the execution is woeful. Lommel himself shows up near the end, aping Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man. Scariest thing in the movie.

* out of ****

Splatometer rating: *1/2 out of ****


City of the Living Dead - Revisited Lucio Fulci's weird undead epic. A priest hangs himself and the gates of Hell open, flooding the world with flesh-eating zombies. But sometimes the ghouls are just phantoms, sometimes not. Either way they can make you bleed from the eyes and upchuck your innards. Like I said, weird. Slow, but tense and atmospheric - Fabio Frizzi's Goblin-esque score helps.

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
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12/21/06 at 10:07pm
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Stacy - Truly bizarre Japanese zombie flick has young girls the world over dying and returning as flesh-eating zombies called Stacies. To deal with the problem the government forms Romero Repeat Kill Squads (each Stacy must be cut into 165 pieces in order for it to stay dead). Meanwhile the Drew (as in Barrymore) Illegal Repeat Kill Squad (comprised of three doomed teenaged girls) gives the government squads competition while the media hawks Bruce Campbell chainsaws to bereaved families! But what do the Stacies really want and what does the mysterious Butterfly Twinkle Powder have to do with it all?

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ***1/2 out of ****
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12/27/06 at 11:53am
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Junk - More J-Zombies. A gang of thieves rendezvous with the yakuza at an abandoned military base and get more than they bargained for when a secret army experiment unleashes a horde of the living dead. More complicated than need be and over the top in places, but still a decent effort.

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ***1/2 out of ****
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1/1/07 at 2:22pm
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Day of the Dead 2: Contagium - In name only sequel finds a group of psychiatric patients infected with a substance that alters their genetic structures, turning them into flesh-eating ghouls. The zombies here are fast and retain some intelligence, making them especially deadly. A little sloppy, but not as bad as I'd feared.

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****


All Souls Day - South of the border zombies this time. The residents of a small Mexican village are betrayed and murdered by a greedy landowner after the discovery of a rich Aztec tomb. Years later a quartet of Americans discover that the undead and very hungry villagers return every All Souls Day... Interesting premise foiled by routine execution.

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****
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1/3/07 at 3:45pm
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Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror - Revisited Andrea Bianchi's undead shocker. An archaeologist breaks into an ancient tomb and releases pizza-faced zombies who like to munch on upperclass twits. Not bad, not great, not much plot. Bizarre casting: the little boy is played by actor Peter Bark who was most definitely not a little boy at the time! (Guess they couldn't find a child actor who was into nipple-biting?)

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****



Nudist Colony of the Dead - Bible-thumpers close down a nudist colony forcing the nudists into commiting mass suicide. Years later the colony is turned into a religious retreat and the naked dead come back for revenge. High concept meets low budget and the result is a genuine cheeseball classic. Jesus Christ but I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I even liked the musical numbers! Warning: the religiously sensitive need not apply.

"How can the children praise the Lord when they have genitals in their mouths?"

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
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1/4/07 at 3:57pm
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Can I get this from Netflix Steve, or do I have to use more clandestine methods? 'Cause Nudist Colony of the Dead sounds like a movie I pretty much have to see. Musical numbers you say?

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1/5/07 at 6:16am
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It's not out on DVD unfortunately. I had to, ahem, buy a VHS copy.

It really is cheesy but I hadn't laughed so hard since I saw Meet the Feebles for the first time.
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1/10/07 at 3:43pm
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My weekly dose of undead mayhem:


City of Rott - Cartoon zombies! A crazy old man wanders through a city of the walking dead looking for a pair of comfortable loafers and talking to his walker. Scores of zombies get their worm-infested brains bashed out in this stylized animated effort, which is cool at first, but quickly becomes tiresome. It feels more like you're watching a video game than a movie, and even at 77 minutes it goes on too long. Probably would have worked better as a short feature.

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****


My Dead Girlfriend - A guy accidentally kills his girlfriend (in horribly contrived fashion) but brings her back to undead life by using a spell in one of her witchcraft books. Zombie girlfriend gets hungry and munches on visiting friends. Seen this before in better movies.

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


Zombie Cult Massacre - A troubled couple is taken in by a cult whose members believe the final days are fast approaching. (No horsemen in sight, but there are plenty of zombies!) Interesting premise mixes the living dead, religious fanatics and angry bikers with moderate success. Almost done in by its cheapness, but saved by some truly nasty gore. Fetus, anyone?

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: ***1/2 out of ****
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1/11/07 at 3:26am
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We really need to find the right people to get Nudist Colony of the Dead released. That sounds wild!

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