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10/22/07 at 10:26am
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Night of the Living Dead 3D - Enjoyable (if pretty much disposable) remake of George Romero's classic in three dimensions.

**1/2 out of ****

Wait, wait, wait - how could you possibly like this?!? Putting aside, just for a moment, the huge amount of baggage that comes with the title NOTLD, it was a dreadful movie that was painful to get through. The pot jokes (and I use that term very loosely) were stupid, the 3D effect was criminaly underused (while not a good movie, at least the third Friday the 13th had the good sense to squirt some blood directly at the camera from time to time), the characters were boring - and stupid (Hey! It's a zombie attack. Lets - oh, I dont know - BOARD UP THE GOD DAMNED WINDOWS!), and playing the original NOTLD on the TV - well, it's always a bad idea to remind us of a much better movie while suffering through your piece of shit. The acting was non-existant, and the only even remotly good thing about the movie was Sid Haig.

This thing was an insult to zombie fans everywhere and it's a crime that someone made money on this while George got screwed on the copyright for the original and probaby hasnt seen a dime.
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10/22/07 at 10:56am
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Eh, different strokes for different zombie fans I guess.

Mind you, I probably will never watch it again, but taken on its own (minus the baggage of the original and compared to most other low budget zombie films) it's passable (if, as I said, disposable).
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10/23/07 at 12:30pm
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Night of the Zombies - Don't ask me why I revisited this low grade Nazi zombie flick. (The things I do for the ZMA thread!) A U.S. secret agent searches for a strange chemical used in a WWII battle that took place in a remote alpine region of Germany. But little does he know that thanks to that chemical the soldiers who died in that fight are still hanging out as flesh-eating zombies! Porn star Jamie Gillis makes like a poor man's Elliot Gould in the lead and the chintzy production values are mostly laughable. Mein Gott!

"Must I be subjected to this insipid drivel? I'm a scientist!"

* out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


Zombie Nightmare - Good-natured jock is run over and killed by a gang of teens headed by a sadistic jerk. Jock's mom calls in her voodoo priestess friend who raises jock from the grave. Baseball bat-wielding zombie jock goes on a revenge spree. Batman, I mean Adam West, shows up just long enough to get dragged down to Hell. Cheapo time-killer.

** out of ****

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


Dawn of the Dead (1978 - European version) - Revisited Dario Argento's cut of George Romero's horrific masterpiece. Still a good film, but the least of the three major versions. The changes here seem rather arbitrary: dramatic scenes (mostly from the mall sequence) have been cut, with others added, there's a bit more gore and so on. Much choppier than the other two editions.

*** out of ****

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


The Dead Will Walk - Retrospective documentary on George Romero and Dawn of the Dead.

*** out of ****
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10/31/07 at 5:29pm
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Fido - A comet blankets the Earth with a strange radiation
that causes the dead to rise up and eat the living. So far so good.
The living then decide the best option is to make the undead their
servants! Retro zombie comedy about a little boy and his living dead
pal Fido isn't quite the laughfest I thought it would be, but it is a nifty
little satire that doesn't spare the gore.

*** out of ****

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



Special dEaD - Sometimes heroes ride the short bus. If you're offended
by the word "retard," or the sight of the mentally challenged killing and being killed by
zombies, well, don't even think about watching this flick. But if you've a twisted sense
of humor and a defiance of politically correct sensibilities, then by all means, dig in! When
an outbreak of zombies menaces Camp Special Dude, hard-loving, nunchuk-wielding hero
Machiavelli Stone must lead a ragtag band of special people, girlfriends and a lone black
gangsta ("I must have got on the wrong fuckin' bus!") to safety. Some overdone
moments aside, this is good, gory, not-so-clean fun.

"Does your plan include popsicle sticks and talking really loud?"

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
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11/5/07 at 1:28pm
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The Dead Have Risen - Z-grade schlock from Charles E. Cullen has a minister's radio rantings raising the dead. Among them is a CML (Country Music Legend) zombie who searches for whiskey and his still-living paramour Loretta Lynn! Can a laconic, raygun-toting government agent (whose vocabulary seems to consist only of the phrase "You bastard!") put a stop to the undead outbreak? Who cares? Cheap, incoherent and worst of all, deadly dull.

Not to be confused with Deadlands: The Rising, Rise of the Dead, Rise of the Undead or The Rising Dead.

BOMB!

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


The South Will Rise Again - Follow-up to The Dead Have Risen is just as bad. A law prohibiting the public display of the Confederate flag causes the Rebel dead to rise from their graves in search of cheap beer, sourmash whiskey and redneck women. Howlingly chintzy production is tedious to sit through.

BOMB!

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


Zombie Farm - Terrorists poison the water supply of a small California town, turning the residents into flesh-eating ghouls. Can a college student, a survivalist and two FBI agents stop the undead hordes? Typical (and
typically underlit), but not bad.

"You're going to kill me?"

"Yeah."

"But Jennifer and I were going to have lesbian sex with you tonight!"

*** out of ****

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


Brains - Humorous short about two pals who've trapped some zombies in a phone
booth. But these zombies have evidently seen Return of the Living Dead!

Watch it here.

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: zero out of ****
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11/5/07 at 1:44pm
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Don't know if you mentioned it, but I watched "Undead" on the recommendation of "Walking Dead" author Robert Kirkman. I lasted about 20 minutes. What a turd.

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Mansion of the Living Dead - Jess Franco silliness that should have been called Hotel of the Living Lesbians.

That title would have made it a must-see.
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11/5/07 at 2:08pm
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I've seen Undead and it could have been decent were it not for so many "stupid" moments.
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Dead Moon Rising - Fun little no-budgeter filmed in Louisville (that's Looahvull!), Kentucky. A worldwide zombie epidemic is turning people into crazed zombies. In Louisville a ragtag band of suvivors try to make it to safety - but where can a safe haven be found? Lots of cheap CGI gunplay and blood spraying, but the film doesn't take itself too seriously and the cast is better than average for this type of flick. The hero here comes across as Steve Buscemi by way of Clerks. Bonus points for the gratuitous lesbian kissing scene.

Not to be confused with Deadlands: The Rising, Rise of the Dead, Rise of the Undead, The Rising Dead or even Black Moon Rising.


**1/2 out of ****

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


Curse of the Maya - A troubled woman and her psychiatrist lover buy a cabin in the mountains near the Mexican border and find the grounds haunted by a zombie Indian family. Turns out these modern day Mayans were murdered and are now getting revenge on anyone who crosses their path! Not really awful, just....lifeless. Some good kills though, including a cool Joe Estevez head-ripping. Todd Bridges, in a role symbolic of his post-Different Strokes career, plays one of the living dead.

*1/2 out of ****

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


Zombie Prom - Entertaining musical short finds a girl from the right side of the tracks in love with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Naturally her parents object so she breaks up with him. Heartbroken he commits suicide by jumping into the reactor at the Francis Gary Powers Nuclear Power Plant. But it's not long before he returns as one of the living dead, ready to take his beloved to the prom! RuPaul has fun as the uptight, morally-conscious principal who wants zombie boy booted from the school!

"My parents didn't like you when you were alive, what makes you think they'll like you now that you're dead?"

Note: you can download this for free at iTunes (limited time only)

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: zero out of ****
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11/17/07 at 5:58am
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Horrors of War - It's The Dirty Dozen meets Weird Tales! A special squad of U.S. soldiers is sent into France to destroy a Nazi research facility and discover the place is turning out zombie supersoldiers (and apparently a few werewolves)! Not too badly done given it's budget constraints, but not particularly memorable either.

**1/2 out of ****

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


Cadaverella - Modern day beauty Cinder can't wait till her 21st birthday - that's when she comes into the money her dear father left her. But if her evil stepmother has anything to say about it, she won't live that long! Fortunately Cinder's fairy godmother is a voodoo priest skilled in raising the dead! Okay updating of the Cinderella tale features the hottest goth zombie since Return of the Living Dead III. Bonus points for a cool head-smooshing.

** out of ****

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


The Ruining - Four L.A. friends go on a camping trip to the mountains and discover the locals have been turned into flesh-crazed ghouls. Odd, near incomprehensible throwback to seventies horror features slavering yokel cannibals, psychedelic eggs and a paunchy Wings Hauser playing...himself?

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


Kiss Daddy Goodbye - Neat little chiller finds a man murdered by bikers. His telekinetic twin children then resurrect his body and send him on a revenge spree. Cheap but entertaining, the cast includes Fabian and Texas Chainsaw Massacre alumna Marilyn Burns!

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: *1/2 out of ****
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11/19/07 at 10:08pm
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Awaken the Dead - Interesting undead flick has a priest with a shady past being directed to the home of an old friend whose daughter has likewise been summoned. Unfortunately, while they're trying to figure out why they're there, there's an outbreak of zombies and they find themselves surrounded! But what has caused the dead to rise and what has the mysterious friend and father have to do with it all? I'm not too sure about the stylistic choices (some of which may have been used to cover for the low budget), but fortunately the film manages to overcome those.

*** out of ****

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


Garden of the Dead - Formaldehyde-sniffing convicts escape a work camp but are hunted down and killed by the warden and his men. Bad news! They come back from the dead as murderous fiends and descend upon the work camp, killing everyone in their path! Not bad little drive-in flick.

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****
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11/28/07 at 6:00am
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Motocross Zombies from Hell - Yes, I really watched a movie called Motocross Zombies from Hell. And yes, it sucked. Shoot me if they ever release NASCAR Zombies.

* out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


Deadscapes II - Second in the Deadscapes series of zombie shorts is a great improvement over the first installment. A woman arrives at home during an outbreak of the living dead to find her family murdered not by zombies but by a serial killer! How do the undead figure into the murderer's diabolical plans?

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
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11/28/07 at 11:41am
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Well, I searched and didn't see it mentioned so I will have to throw a new title out for your assessment:

Flight of The Living Dead:Outbreak On A Plane

Watched it last weekend - I thought it was good fun.

It takes 52 pounds of pressure to rupture an eyeball...

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11/29/07 at 6:00am
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Caught FOTLD when it was released on R3 DVD (listed under the title Plane Dead). You're right - it's a fun little flick.
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12/5/07 at 12:58pm
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Raiders of the Living Dead - Super cheap zombie film about a journalist who
is investigating the death of a terrorist - a fiend who's been revived and is now
commanding an army (well, more like a squad) of the undead. Mixed up in this is a
kid who's made a laser gun out of his grandpa's defunct laser disc player (so that's
what they do with them!) and the obligatory girlfriends. Choppy, cheesy and not
really worth this long of a synopsis.

* out of ****

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


Hey, You've Got Zombies in Your Backyard - A trio of bickering assassins
find themselves beseiged by the zombified corpses of their victims thanks to
a pissed-off fortuneteller. Not a bad little SOV effort, shot in black and white.

**1/2 out of ****

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


Undead Ted - Comic short finds a newly-zombiefied man ruminating on
his new "life" as one of the undead. A few chuckles hereand there, but it
offers nothing new and ends rather abruptly.

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: * out of ****
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12/5/07 at 9:44pm
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Awaken the Dead - Interesting undead flick has a priest with a shady past being directed to the home of an old friend whose daughter has likewise been summoned. Unfortunately, while they're trying to figure out why they're there, there's an outbreak of zombies and they find themselves surrounded! But what has caused the dead to rise and what has the mysterious friend and father have to do with it all? I'm not too sure about the stylistic choices (some of which may have been used to cover for the low budget), but fortunately the film manages to overcome those.

*** out of ****

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


Garden of the Dead - Formaldehyde-sniffing convicts escape a work camp but are hunted down and killed by the warden and his men. Bad news! They come back from the dead as murderous fiends and descend upon the work camp, killing everyone in their path! Not bad little drive-in flick.

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****
Garden of the Dead...nice one! I actually loved this film. A friend brought it over to watch, and he couldn't stand it. I love it. It's just completely off the wall, escapist, goofy fun. I want to pick it up on dvd, but there are now a few versions available. I want the copy with the horror show host(think it's The Ghoul) intro.

                          

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12/11/07 at 2:04pm
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Zombie Outbreak - No frills undead epic has a single mother, four teens and a couple of top secret government zombie hunters fighting for their lives after an outbreak of the living dead. Starts off like it might be sorta decent, but gets worse as it goes along. Save it for when you're really desperate for a zombie fix.

* out of ****

Splatometer rating: * out of ****


Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker! - Troma strikes again with this living dead crapfest. A homely, nerdish girl (who may quite possibly be the most annoying character ever committed to film) has her Halloween plans wrecked by wacky neighbors, bullies and zombies. Might have worked as a 30-minute short, but at 60 minutes it's padded with too much unfunny filler.

*1/2 out of ****

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


The Diary - Above average zombie short finds a couple menaced by zombies at their secluded forest cabin.

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
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12/12/07 at 2:18pm
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I'm trying to remember a show (movie?) that was a ripoff of COPS, but had to do with the zombie problem. I remember seeing clips of it and thought it looked like a fun show to watch, but I forgot about it and can't recall the name. Any ideas?
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12/12/07 at 5:18pm
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You might be thinking of War of the Dead.

Two episodes so far.
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12/14/07 at 8:39am
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Yeah, that's it. Why can't Direct-to-DVD films be like this series? It's a hellvalot better than most of the zombie crap out there.

- Colton
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12/20/07 at 6:57am
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Undead or Alive - Fun little western horror comedy has two cowboys and a beautiful Indian princess
fighting off an undead posse - victims of "Geronimo's Curse" who are spreading a plague of zombies.

*** out of ****

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


The Alien Dead - Fred Olen Ray's masterpiece of drive-in cinema has the denizens of a swamp battling
water-logged zombies thanks to a freaky meteorite. Not very good, but charming in its own, schlocky way.

** out of ****

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


Midnight Skater - A day in the life of a college campus finds a group of friends searching for the mysterious title character, a late night graffiti artist who they think is responsible the drugs circulating around school. Meanwhile a serial killer stalks the students and two Silent Bob and Jay knock-offs (the real drug pushers) are selling pills that create flesh-eating zombies! Busy SOV effort would have been better with a little self control and refinement.

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
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12/24/07 at 11:06am
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Dead at the Box Office - Pretty good little SOV (that's Shot
On Video) zombie flick has the staff of a rundown theater fighting
off a zombiefied movie audience. A blend of elements from Demons
and the Masters of Horror episode Cigarette Burns, with a special
nod to Night of the Living Dead. Movie buffs will get a bigger
kick out of it.

*** out of ****

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


Astro-Zombies - Deadly dull oddity has scientist John
Carradine creating solar-powered zombies. Meanwhile he's being
pursued by govenment agents and a deadly Asian villainess. Book-
ended by scenes of a toy tank battling toy robots. WTF? Co-written
by Trapper John himself, Wayne Rogers. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

* out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


Summer Cabin - Grainy, fairly effective short has a guy fighting
off a zombie in the titular dwelling. Too short to be of much consequence,
but has a nice vibe.

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****
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12/29/07 at 7:22pm
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Goremet Zombie Chef from Hell - Bottom of the barrel exploitation fare about a rogue high priest who is cursed by his peers to live through the ages as a flesh-eating zombie. Skip this buffet.

1/2* out of ****

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


The Earth Dies Screaming - Fairly effective Brit horror outing finds post-apocalypse alien invaders using robots and reanimated human corpses to ferret out England's surviving population. Not bad, but not much to it either.

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: zero out of ****


Zombie Aftermath - Two astronauts return to a post-apocalyptic earth and do battle with vicious gang leader Sid Haig and the (very) occasional zombie. Zombie Aftermath my ass. Chintzy affair does boast a rather grim finale.

** out of ****

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


Grave Misdemeanors - A put-upon teen thinks his days of being picked on are over when his tormentors die in a car crash. But not even death can keep these bullies down! Middling eighties teen horror is fun enough.

**1/2 out of ****

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


Night of the Creeps - Eighties fav finds a college overrun with alien slugs whose preferred method of reproduction is to enter the human head and well, you get the gooey picture. Hard to dislike a flick where the good girl has a gratuitous topless scene.

*** out of ****

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


Zombies? - Cute animated short has two undead pals trying to join the world of the living. But who are the real zombies?

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: * out of ****
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Zombie Toxin - Two prancing Nazis sell a homemade wine that turns people into flesh-eating zombies. Somehow torture, equine dismemberments, copious vomiting, graphic defecating, flying bottles and druggie nannies figure into the plot. Bizarro entry in the zombie canon wants to be another Bad Taste but comes up short. Still, it's so damn goofy, crudely audacious and filled with cheap splatter that you can't help but watch.

**1/2 out of ****

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


Raiders of the Damned - A squad of soldiers is sent into a post-apocalyptic enclave of intelligent zombies to rescue a captured scientist and blah, blah, blah. Tired tale is by turns murky and just plain stupid. Almost worth seeing for Richard Greico's hammy performance that makes him look like the bastard offspring of Johnny Depp and Brad Dourif. Not to be confused with the equally bad Raiders of the Living Dead.

*1/2 out of ****

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


A Guy's Guide to Zombies - Humorous short done in the style of a 1950s public awareness film. Stinking commies!

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: * out of ****
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Zombie Outbreak - No frills undead epic has a single mother, four teens and a couple of top secret government zombie hunters fighting for their lives after an outbreak of the living dead. Starts off like it might be sorta decent, but gets worse as it goes along. Save it for when you're really desperate for a zombie fix.

* out of ****

Splatometer rating: * out of ****


Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker! - Troma strikes again with this living dead crapfest. A homely, nerdish girl (who may quite possibly be the most annoying character ever committed to film) has her Halloween plans wrecked by wacky neighbors, bullies and zombies. Might have worked as a 30-minute short, but at 60 minutes it's padded with too much unfunny filler.

*1/2 out of ****

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


The Diary - Above average zombie short finds a couple menaced by zombies at their secluded forest cabin.

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
Where do you find stuff like "The Diary" ? I'd like to see it, buy where, or how?

                          

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A lot of these films are admittedly obscure but can be found by browsing the net (IMDB, eBay, various zombie sites). Most can be purchased online via the filmmakers' websites.

Here's some links for some recently-reviewed flicks:

The Diary.

Zombie Outbreak

Dead at the Box Office

Hey, You've Got Zombies In Your Backyard

Deadscapes II

Come Get Some!

Special dEaD

And of course, many shorts can be viewed online (YouTube, etc.).

Drop me a private message if you've questions about other zombie movies I've mentioned.

Good way to start off the New Year: I finally tracked down copies of Trepanator and The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay.
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Wiseguys Vs. Zombies - Cheapie has two hitmen transporting a cargo of illicit drugs and bodies from New York to Miami. After being stranded in a redneck South Carolina town they discover that the drugs have turned their victims into flesh-hungry and damn near unstoppable zombies! More entertaining than it ought to be, thanks to good chemistry between the leads - when they're not onscreen, things screech to a halt. At any rate, it'd be hard to completely disavow a movie that sports the line "I hope that goat pussy was worth it!" Bada-bing!

**1/2 out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


Trepanator - Rare French riff on Re-Animator has mad scientist Herbert East wading through gore as he perfects his reanimation serum. Chintzy production isn't anywhere near the trash classic that Re-Animator is, but it has its moments. For some odd reason, most of the action is set in New York where everyone speaks French! Eurohorror auteur Jean Rollin and Maniac Cop director William Lustig have small roles.

**1/2 out of ****

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


The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay - A meteorite splashes down in Tokyo Bay and unleashes a cloud of toxic gas that turns the citizenry into flesh-eating ghouls. But what the government is up to is even worse! Can an ass-kicking, leather-clad hottie put a stop to it all? Choppy blend of action and horror doesn't have quite the budget it needs, but still manages to entertain. Also known as Battle Girl.

**1/2 out of ****

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


Zombie Love - A centuries-old zombie falls in love with a mortal girl, but is that love powerful enough to overcome his craving for flesh? And will his undead pals allow this "unholy" union? Winning musical short throws in a Bollywood-style song and dance number for good measure!

"We saved you a kidney!"

DVD info

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
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Jesus H. Zombie - The big J.C. himself returns in contemporary times as a flesh-eating if somewhat befuddled zombie. Comic short isn't quite sure where it wants to go. Not to be confused with Zombie Christ.

DVD info

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


Corpses - A funeral home director raises the dead so they can perform his dirty deeds. Low rent horror thriller cops a bit too much from Re-Animator, but still manages to entertain.

**1/2 out of ****

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


Blue Sunshine - A group of college students who dropped the titular acid in school are years later turned into mindless, homicidal maniacs. Solid little cult chiller.

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


War of the Dead - X-Files knock-off follows a government agent and a highway patrolman as they track down a trio of Nazi zombies who are avenging themselves on the American vets who killed them during WWII. Entertaining, but a bit too sloppily written. Not to be confused with the ongoing online series of the same name.

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


Stoned Dead - Two private detectives travel to Panama in search of missing missionaries in this cheap but earnest little thriller. There they encounter voodoo cults, drug dealers and z-z-zombies! Oh no!

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****
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1/24/08 at 5:32pm
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Dawn of the Dead (1978) - Revisited the U.S. Theatrical Cut of George Romero's classic in anticipation of the release of his Diary of the Dead. The best of the three popular versions.

**** out of ****

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


Days of Darkness - A comet dusts the Earth with space parasites that turn humans into flesh-eating zombies. Decent little low-budgeter overdoes it a bit, but remains one of the better genre entries of late.

*** out of ****

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


Die and Let Live - Not a zombie Bond parody, but rather a low rent account of partygoers who find themselves surrounded by the hungry living dead. This one at least has an amiable cast and lots of bloodshed.

**1/2 out of ****

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


Oh, No! Zombies! - A group of friends fight off zombies in this micro cinema short. Eh, I've seen worse - at least this one didn't take itself too seriously. Cute how all the ghouls wear t-shirts with the word "zombie" written on them!

** out of ****

Splatometer rating: ** out of ****


28 Seconds Later - Short made to promote 28 Weeks Later has a soldier fighting the infected. Plays more like a deleted scene from the film, but still pretty good.

Watch it here.

*** out of ****

Splatometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
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1/25/08 at 9:42am
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Hey SteveGon. I'm Greg Hanson, the writer/director of Hey, You've Got Zombies in Your Backyard. I see the you've seen my movie and enjoyed it. I'd love to hear what you have to say about the movie, if you'd be so kind. May I ask where you saw it? Thanks. -Greg
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1/26/08 at 6:16am
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Nice to see you here, Greg! Yep, I thought you had a neat little film there - sort of a collision of Pulp Fiction and Night of the Living Dead. It's always cool to see someone tweaking the ol' zombie formula and succeeding.

I believe I bought the movie from the Monotone Pictures website, in fact, there should be a link to it in another post. Hopefully I drummed up a little bizness for ya! (If you'd like me to delete the link, just let me know.)

Here's to a sequel!
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