Waning Solstice - Occult thriller has a centuries-old Inquisitor and a band of contemporary young adults battling a she-demon whose legion of zombies threatens humanity. Potentially interesting premise is ruined by slapdash execution and an overbearing rock sountrack.
* out of ****
Splatometer rating: **1/2 out of ****
Apache Point: Zombies Gone Wild - Jokey, super cheap short about a group of friends who go on a camping trip and run into flesh-eating zombies. Not much to it and just when you think there might be, it's over. No relation to
Zombies Gone Wild, unless sucking can be counted as a degree of familiarity.
* out of ****
Splatometer rating: ** out of ****
Ouanga - Obscure, old school zombie flick was the second film after
White Zombie to feature the living dead. A mulatto woman loves a white plantation owner on tropical Paradise Island (alas, no Wonder Woman here). Unfortunately he spurns her on account of her black blood so she has his appropriately white fiancee kidnapped by zombies with the intent of using her in a voodoo sacrificial ceremony! Fun little chiller if you can stomach the inherent racism.
**1/2 out of ****
Splatometer rating: zero out of ****
The Dead Next Door - Revisited J.R. Bookwalter's 8mm zombie epic that has a squad of soldiers battling not only the undead, but a religious cult that wishes to preserve them! Cheesy but pretty entertaining. Bruce Campbell dubs the lead actor's voice.
*** out of ****
Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
The Ghouls - Grimy thriller about a news photographer who specializes in filming urban carnage. Secretly he gets off on recording bloodshed, but even he isn't prepared when he runs across "the ghouls," a ravenous horde of sewer-dwelling mutants (shades of
C.H.U.D.). Surprisingly decent low budgeter.
*** out of ****
Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
Zombie Genocide - Homegrown zombie outing was Ireland's first ever undead feature. Four friends return from a camping trip to discover their town has been overrun by the living dead. Technically no different than its cheapo American cousins, but tense and exciting. The Irish accents give it an added novelty value.
*** out of ****
Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
Corpses of Doom - Cheeky Scots short has four pals returning from a camping trip (again!) only to find themselves in the middle of a zombie outbreak. What's worse, there's no food in the house!
Watch it here!
*** out of ****
Splatometer rating: ** out of ****
Zombie Town - Parasites turn the inhabitants of a small Vermont town into slavering zombies and only an inept mechanic, his brainy girlfriend and their public servant pal stand a chance of stopping them. Entertaining if rote; the male leads' monotonous delivery is a debit.
**1/2 out of ****
Splatometer rating: *** out of ****
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