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Posted on 07.30.07 by Nathan Shumate @ 9:27 am
Zombie movies include: Catholic Ghoulgirls (2005) - When the undead rise from the grave and invade their small town, a group of catholic schoolgirls must team up with a local gang in an effort to escape from the dead. They are pursued by a pair of lesbian nuns and Death himself - who happens to be gay. Catholic Ghoulgirls is an action-packed, hair-raising thrill ride. Dead is Dead (1992) - Eric is attacked and partially dismembered by a mutant creature and left for dead. A woman named Laura finds him and uses an experimental drug on him known as Doxital. Eric uses his supply of the drug to pay off a debt, but the Doxital he gives away is a bad batch! Can he get it back in time? The Dead Live (2004) - WHAT YOU ARE WATCHING IS REAL, OR IT WOULDN’T BE ON THE SIX O’CLOCK NEWS!! It is the beginning of the end of the world as we know it - for some reason the dead are beginning to walk. Survivors must not only battle the rising undead, but each other in a deadly and gruesome game of cat and mouse! Demon Slaughter (2004) - Jimmy wanted out of his mob family, but getting out wasn’t that easy. With a bag of stolen money, Jimmy heads to a cabin to hide out from his mob buddies. Things seem to be going as planned until the dead start coming back to life. It’s a battle to the death as Jimmy tries to stay alive. (Reviewed here.) Hellbound: Book of the Dead (2003) - While living in a small costal town, Lane and Diane are about to have their lives torn apart by an ancient book of magic that was originally created to bring the dead back to life. In her desperate attempt to resurrect her dead sister, Diane accidentally kills a man. When Lane decides to dismember the victim with the intention of tossing his pieces into the bay, the spell begins to kick in. (Reviewed here.) Zombie Rampage (1991) - A young man is caught in a web of terror when he tries to meet his friends at the train station for a reunion. Unfortunately, he never makes it. What he does do, however, is stumble into a nightmare world full of zombies, inner-city gangs and serial killers. Plus: Before I Die (2003). The Bewitching (2006), Blood Sucking Babes from Burbank (2007), Burning Dead (2004), A Candle In The Dark (2002), The Crate (2005), The Crawlspace (2006), Dead 7 (2002) (reviewed here), Dead Body Man (2004), Dominion (1992), Edgar Allan Poe’s Madhouse (1991), Goblin (1993), Goth (2003) (reviewed here), Hell’s Highway (2002), High Desert (1993), Hip Hop Locos (2001), Hollywood Vampyr (2002) (reviewed here), I Dream of Dracula (2003), I Hate You (2004), Invitation (2003), Las Vegas Blood Bath (1989), Matthew (1973), Mayhem Motel (2001), Nightmare Asylum (1992), Off The Beaten Path (2004), Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City (1991) The River: Legend Of La Llorona (2006), Scarlet Fry’s Junkfood Horrorfest (?), Serial Killer (2002) (reviewed here), The Shunned House (2003) (reviewed here), Slasher (1985) (aka Blood Cult, reviewed here), Suburban Sasquatch (2004), The Summer of the Massacre (2006), Tales of Terror (2003) (reviewed here), Terror Toons (2002) (reviewed here), Thirteen (1986), This Darkness (2003), Toe Tags (2003), Up For Rent (2006), Vampire Hunter (2004), The Veil (2005), When Heaven Comes Down (2002), Wishbone (?), and The Witching (1993). The whole set’s available for $26.99 at Amazon.com. Filed under: DVD Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.27.07 by Nathan Shumate @ 9:06 am
Dead Men Walk (1943) - “The marvelously theatrical George Zucco plays a dual role as the dysfunctional Clayton twins who also happen to be doctors. Predictably one twin is good, and the other evil. Dr. Lloyd Clayton is forced to kill his brother Elwyn in self-defense. Elwyn, who happens to be well versed in the dark arts, returns from the grave to exact his revenge. Lloyd viciously slays Elwyn’s colleagues, leaving a mounting trail of evidence that point to the surviving sibling. Lloyd is aided in his evil acts by a hunchbacked assistant played by Dwight Frye.” King of the Zombies (1941) - “During World War II, an American agent, his butler and a pilot are searching for a missing admiral when their plane crash lands on a Caribbean island. Taken in by a German doctor and his strange wife, the trio discovers the island inhabited by zombies under the control of Dr. Sangre. The doctor is attempting to use the zombies to extract information from the missing admiral to help his country’s war efforts. Through the efforts of the butler, the heroes are able to turn the tables on Dr. Sangre and set his zombies against him.” (Reviewed here.) Oasis of the Zombies (1983) - “During World War II, a platoon of German soldiers is transporting a large shipment of gold across the African desert when they’re attacked by Allied forces who force them to hide the treasure in a remote desert oasis. Fifty years later, the son of the only surviving Allied attacker decides to lead an expedition to track down the hidden gold. Facing numerous perils along the way, the adventurers find the hidden oasis only to discover it is guarded by horrifying Nazi zombies.” Revolt of the Zombies (1936) - “After World War I, an expedition representing the Allied countries is sent to Cambodia to stop the efforts of Count Mazovia (Roy D’Arcy) in creating a zombie army of soldiers and laborers. Hoping to prevent a possible outbreak of war due to Mazovia’s actions, the group presses through the jungle to Angkor Wat in spite of the perils. The group includes Armand (Dean Jagger) who has his own agenda contrary to the group’s wishes.” (Reviewed here.) Teenage Zombies (1959) - “A group of teenagers becomes stranded upon an island, through the manipulations of a foreign scientist conducting experiments on the remote isle. It seems the scientist is trying to develop a nerve gas, which will change its victims into easily controlled zombies. Our teens hope of surviving rests with their friends and the sheriff, who have come to the island in search of the missing youths.” Plus a bunch of other public domain compilation standards: The Beast Of The Yellow Night (1971) The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), Cathy’s Curse (1977), Crypt Of The Living Dead (1973 — and that’s vampires, not zombies), The Ghost (1963), The Head (1959), House Of The Dead, aka Alien Zone (1978), House Of The Living Dead (1973), I Bury The Living (1958), The Long Hair Of Death (1964), The Man With Two Lives (1942), The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (1971), The She-Beast (1966), and Terror Creatures From the Grave (1965). Amazon.com has it for $13.49, which, if you know what to expect from these multi-packs, isn’t too bad at all. Filed under: DVD Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.25.07 by Nathan Shumate @ 10:19 am
- Deleted scenes I mean, how often does a DVD release of a twenty-year-old flick merit its own promo site? Check out the trailer while you’re there. You can get the whole shebang for $14.99 at Amazon.com. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled zombie fare. Filed under: DVD Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.13.07 by Nathan Shumate @ 2:18 pm
Good lord, it’s like they put my entire DVD collection into a blender. Reviews seem to indicate that, yes, it’s as funny as it thinks it is (never a given). Here’s the trailer: You can find out more at ZombieFarmMovie.com. Filed under: DVD Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.10.07 by Nathan Shumate @ 3:31 pm
All of which means that we need to relax our standards for zombie fare if we want to see anything new at all. And Nailed fits juuuuust inside those expanded borders:
Directed by Gabriel Dowrick (who?), starring Tashi Martel, Glenn Ruehland, and Frank Hurby (who?). No word on extras, but for $13.49 from Amazon.com, don’t expect too much. Filed under: DVD Comments: None |

If you liked the last multipack, well… you may or may not like this one. Unlike the mostly forgotten and public domain titles that populated Beyond the Grave, this 50 (!!) feature set on 12 DVDs from Mill Creek Entertainment/Pendulum Pictures is almost entirely recent indie shot-on-video horror flicks. Can’t say they’re worse. Can’t say they’re better. Just different.
Even with a label like that, you can’t assume that this multipack from Mill Creek Entertainment is chock-full of zombie goodness — there’s a lot more to “beyond the grave” than simply zombies — but there are a few shamblers to be had here:
This bends the rules on my normal subject matter, but I don’t care. The Monster Squad, the almost-but-not-quite-a-kid’s-flick from 1987 by Fred “Night of the Creeps” Dekker, has finally gotten a DVD release. And not just some bare-bones repackaging; demonstrating what a cult favorite this little sleeper has become, the new two-disc set includes:
If you live in the L.A. area, you can get in ahead of the rest of us on Zombie Farm, which isn’t hitting DVD until October. The film is screening at the New Beverly Cinema on Sat. July 14, at 1:00 PM. (Not exactly the time of day you usually watch the living dead, but still.)
For some reason, it seems like high summer isn’t exactly a glut time for zombie movie releases. I know; it puzzles me, too. I mean, what could heighten the zombie movie experience more than those July temperatures that make everyone you’re watching the movie smell dead already?



