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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie - An agricultural experiment in bug extermination raises the hungry dead! Slow build up, but the gore is decent and includes the classic breast-ripping scene. I did want to scream at the characters, especially when confronted by the living dead in the graveyard: why the hell didn't they just run to their car and drive away instead of locking themselves in a mortuary and letting themselves get surrounded? Duh.

*** out of ****

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

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Well, yeah, but I'm just sayin'!

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Bone Sickness - Yet another in the endless stream of low budget, amateur zombie flicks, this one at least was supposed to feature an impressive onslaught of gore. Well, it is pretty damn gory (even if the constantly spurting blood looks like cherry Kool-Aid) but alas, the plot: a guy is suffering from a rare bone disease. His wife seeks the aid of his best friend, a morgue attendant and alternative medicine practitioner. The friend concocts a mixture of meat and bone marrow taken from, you guessed it, human cadavers! This eventually turns bone disease guy into a murderous "necro-junkie." It also raises the dead from a nearby graveyard (I'm guessing it was the fluid from a leaky corpse that we see running down a drain). The zombies go on a rampage, eventually wolfing down most of the main cast as well as a bunch of SWAT dudes. This is all fine and dandy but about midway through the story ceases to make sense with nightmare sequences and goblins (yes, there are goblins in this movie) being thrown into the mix. This wouldn't be so bad if the film weren't so damn dark. I know darkness is an important ingredient in many horror films, but it takes skill to use it effectively. Here it's just annoying and novice directors should really stay away from it (or at least spring for some lights). So what we have here is an overly dark, messily-plotted zombie flick with an impressive (and rather lengthy) zombie chowdown sequence. Your call.

If it helps, there is also some pretty good t & a.

** out of ****

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

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The Grapes of Death - Jean Rollin's answer to George Romero's The Crazies finds a rural French community turned into decomposing homicidal maniacs after drinking pesticide-tainted wine. Okay, they're not really the living dead, but whatever. Ya got naked hot chicks, some decent gore (including a grisly crucifixion/beheading) and gorgeous location shooting. Check it out!

*** out of ****

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

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Homecoming - Joe Dante's entry in the Masters of Horror series is a zombie movie of a different sort: dead American soldiers have risen from their graves, but they're not hungry for warm human flesh - no, they want to vote! Spurred by political chicanery over an unpopular war, these zombies just want their voices heard. Did they die for their country or some politician's spurious gamble? Homecoming is a fairly effective political satire that works despite some unnecessary plot contrivances towards the end. How much you enjoy this will depend on your political leanings, though the message here transcends politics.

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

*** out of ****

Goreometer rating: ** out out ****

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Actually I've never gotten around to seeing that. I'll get to it one of these days.

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Saw the trailer for NOTLD3D a while back. Doesn't look too horrible so I'm keepin' my fingers crossed.


Zombiegeddon - Troma does Buffy the Vampire Slayer with zombies! Here the Chosen One is a dirty cop who can redeem himself only by defeating Satan's army of zombies. Succeeds mainly by focusing on the dirty cop and his malignant partner who keep things rolling - the other characters are pretty much superfluous. On the downside, there isn't nearly as much zombie gut-munching action as you'd suppose given the title. If you dig Troma, give it a whirl, others beware.

** out of ****

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

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Or better yet, a tv series (c'mon HBO!)!

Anyone else check out the Marvel Zombies series?

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Redneck Zombies - Dumb and cheesy Troma classic finds the world menaced by flesh-eating zombie yokels after they imbibe a cocktail of moonshine and toxic waste. A bit draggy in places - the elephant man and hallucination scenes slow the pace - but capped by an admirably gooey zombie chowdown.

**1/2 out of ****

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

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Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Revisited George Romero's zombie classic.

***1/2 out of ****

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

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Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things - A group of obnoxious actors raise the dead after performing a satanistic ritual at an island graveyard. Bob Clark's low budget zombie shocker is amateurish on just about every level but still manages a tense, creepy ambience. A remake is on the way, but supposedly will include rapping zombies. Take your pick.

**1/2 out of ****

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

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Street Zombies (aka Ozone) - Craptastic "zombie" flick from the director of the The Dead Next Door. A cop investigates a new drug that's hit the streets (the vials are conveniently labled with the brand name Ozone!), a crack-like substance that turns its users into zombies. The lead actor pretty much carries the whole show, otherwise this is a lazily scripted time-waster that doesn't even have the goofy cheesiness of Troma's offerings. Some decent gore here and there, but no chow-downs.

* out of ****

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

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I've compiled the following list of zombie flicks I've reviewed for this thread. Some ratings have been revised.

This list can also be seen in my first post in this thread and that one will be kept updated for your reference.

Bone Sickness *
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things **
Dead Meat ***
The Grapes of Death ***
Homecoming ***
I Was a Zombie for the FBI **
King of the Zombies **
Land of the Dead ***
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie ***
The Living Dead Girl **
The Mad Ghoul **
The Night of the Hunted ***
Night of the Living Dead (1968) ***
The Plague of the Zombies ***
Redneck Zombies **
The Reincarnation of Isabel *
Return of the Living Dead Part II **
Shock Waves **
The Stink of Flesh **
Street Zombies *
They Came Back ***
Uncle Sam **
Undead **
Zombiegeddon *
Zombie Honeymoon ***
Zombie Night *

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Versus - Disappointing yakuza/zombie flick pits an escaped con/reincarnated warrior against a yakuza boss/immortal badguy who is scheming to open a portal to the "other side" in a mysterious forest. Something like that anyway. The zombies here are not really central to the story - they show up, get their asses kicked and that's it. Follow that with interminable fights between the hero and villain and....ah, screw it.

** out of ****

Goreometer rating: ** out of ****

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Night of the Living Dead (1990) - Revisited the Tom Savini-directed/George Romero-scripted remake of Romero's horror classic. In retrospect, this is one of the better remakes from the last couple of decades. Sure it lacks the disturbing nihilism and suspense of the original, but it still bests much of the competition.

*** out of ****

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