Every time I think that the pop-cultural fascination with zombies might be slowing down, there’s another release from Brain Damage that renews my faith in the staying power of the living dead.
When the last soul enters heaven and the first sinner is shut out of hell life as we know it will cease to exist. Geller, played by Ashley Gallo (Dread, Bloodlock), runs for her life from the bloodthirsty zombies that seem to have over run her small town. For help during end times she turns to Mack (a criminal), two shady brothers and a faithless Reverend played by David Crawford (Dawn of the Dead 78). Geller and her new friends are on the run from roving hoards of zombies, shadow demons and the Grim Reaper!
Fresh out from Heretic Films, the latest entry in the rapidly burdgeoning “slackers vs. zombies” subgenre:
Hopeless romantic Benny throws a party with the help of his friend Smalls. The goal: to help woo his crush Stephanie, who is fresh out of a bad relationship with the town sexual conquistador, Andrew.
But, their party is soon crashed when Andrew shows up, only to be killed by a bloodthirsty group of zombies created by a virus being developed at a nearby medical testing facility. When Andrew returns to life, Benny and Smalls find themselves fighting for their lives, trying to escape, all while trying to make sense of teenage social life!
Since Night of the Creeps (1986) has been out of print almost since the day of its original VHS release, I’ll forgive you if you don’t immediately recognize the conceptual similarities to The Greatest Movie Ever Made.
Includes cast and crew commentary, 40 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage, outtakes, deleted scenes, and footage from the world premiere. $17.99 at Amazon.com.
Once again, zombie films prove that it’s the execution, not the premise, that makes a good example of the genre. At least, it better be the execution.
A small town is infected by a deadly virus, and a frantic cover up is taking place…Three days after the initial contamination several special forces units are sent in on a recognizance mission, their objective; To measure the effects of the the virus and locate any survivors unaffected by the plague. The story follows the exploits of S.A.S Beta team who discover upon entering the town that not all the inhabitants have died from the disease, those that survived the plague have become rabid and wander the streets attacking those unaffected by the virus. Beta team are forced to abandon the streets and seek refuge in a house, their sanctuary quickly becomes a prison as the walking dead surround the building and the battle for survival begins…
The DVD from Brain Damage Films also includes outtakes and deleted scenes. A running time of 150 minutes makes it one of the longer zombie movies around. On the plus side, it’s getting pretty good reviews.
On the minus side, Brain Damage decided to use images taken right from the packaging of Halloween zombie costumes on the cover. Compare and contrast!
Do you know what’s missing around ZombieMart? More heartwarming romance, that’s what. So it’s with some gleeful giggles that I point out the special edition DVD release of a cult classic horror-comedy.
The Frankenstein legend gets stitched up by the makers of “BASKET CASE” and “BRAIN DAMAGE” in this outrageous horror comedy. When his pretty fiancee “goes to pieces” under the blades of a runaway lawnmower, aspiring mad scientist Jeffrey Franken hatches an unorthodox scheme to bring his beloved back to life. He reassembles his girlfriend from the body parts of New York prostitutes. But his dreamgirl runs amok on 42nd Street, turning tricks that literally make people’s head spin. Can Jeffrey still find true love? Or has he created a monster?
If you need more info, well, a certain someone has a review of it (from the old VHS release, natch) right here.
The special edition from Unearthed Films includes a commentary by director Franke Henenlotter, retrospective remembrances from two of the cast, a make-up effects mini-feature, and production photos. (It does not, alas, include the talking video box from the VHS release.) $14.99 at Amazon.com.
Remember: In niche subgenres, it’s not the concept so much as the execution.
A comet comes barreling into the planet after looming over the Earth for days. This comet is not just rock and ice - it’s a mass of parasitic dust spawning countless zombies, hungry for human flesh, who are devouring anyone they can find. Hidden in a remote complex are the last survivors. Some are wounded, some have gone mad, but all of them must join together to fend off the grisly attacks by the man-eating creatures. With more zombies surrounding and infiltrating the hide-out by the minute, their chances for survival are just about up. It’s horror to the max in what may be the ultimate cinematic tale of gore and chaos.
It’s garnering a fair amount of praise, relative to its low budget.
The biggest zombie release of the last few weeks has been the third chapter in the based-on-videogames-like-you-couldn’t-tell big budget movie series, starring Milla Jovovich, the used-to-actress so skinny she’s practically translucent.
Milla Jovovich is back in the third chapter of the hugely successful Resident Evil franchise! This action-packed horror film is set in the Nevada desert and filled with intense special effects and more zombie terror! Las Vegas means fun in the sun. Well, at least the sun is still there. Except for a few rusting landmarks, it looks pretty much like the rest of the desert - or the whole country, for that matter. The crowds are now flesh-eating zombies: the mass undead, the oozing, terrifying sludge of what remains. Here, the newly upgraded Alice, along with her crew (Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ali Larter, Ashanti) will make a final stand against evil - with one goal: to turn the undead dead again.
I gotta tell you: The Resident Evil movies irritate me like a soda cracker in my boxer briefs. But somebody must like ‘em; this installment made back its $45-million budget at the box office, and it’ll probably do gangbusters business on DVD.
And if you’re going to get the DVD, you might as well get the Special Edition, which includes a commentary by producer/writer Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt (director Russell Mulcahy is oddly absent), eleven deleted scenes, a making-of featurette, a sneak peak at the upcoming Resident Evil: Degeneration videogame, and what the heck — the full Devil May Cry 4 game.
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Every time I think that the pop-cultural fascination with zombies might be slowing down, there’s another release from Brain Damage that renews my faith in the staying power of the living dead.
Fresh out from Heretic Films, the latest entry in the rapidly burdgeoning “slackers vs. zombies” subgenre:
Once again, zombie films prove that it’s the execution, not the premise, that makes a good example of the genre. At least, it better be the execution.
Do you know what’s missing around ZombieMart? More heartwarming romance, that’s what. So it’s with some gleeful giggles that I point out the special edition DVD release of a cult classic horror-comedy.
Remember: In niche subgenres, it’s not the concept so much as the execution.
The biggest zombie release of the last few weeks has been the third chapter in the based-on-videogames-like-you-couldn’t-tell big budget movie series, starring Milla Jovovich, the used-to-actress so skinny she’s practically translucent.
