Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide by Glenn Kay

Author:Glenn Kay [Kay, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, History and criticism, Performing Arts, History & Criticism, Film & Video, Zombie films - History and criticism, Zombie films, Guides & Reviews
ISBN: 9781556527708
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2008-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

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was recorded well after shooting. Cult movie star

Bruce Campbell actually provided the voice of one

of the leads, and his friend Sam Raimi (director of

The Evil Dead [1981] and Spider-Man [2002])

helped fund the film, though understandably, no

credit appears on-screen. This movie’s director, J. R.

Bookwalter, would make two more no-budget

zombie opuses, Zombie Cop (1991)—guess he

missed Dead Heat (1988)—and Ozone (1993). The Dead Next Door, as weak as it was, remains his most

noteworthy effort.

FleshEater (1988)

Star/writer/director/editor Bill Hinzman was the

first zombie to appear in Night of the Living Dead

(1968), and he used that clout to make this Pitts-

burgh-shot monstrosity, which is also known as

Zombie Nosh. Hinzman’s pancake-white zombie

makeup makes him look like an undead mime, and

he ends up being the film’s silent lead, since all the

living characters are simply eaten minutes after

they’re introduced. Even more disturbing and dis-

tasteful is the propensity of the director (now

clearly an older gentleman) to rip the clothes off

his twenty-year-old female costars and occasionally

Here’s silly poster art for the silly Curse of the Blue Lights.

© New Concorde Home Entertainment

cop a feel on camera as he is biting them. Hinzman

also steals classic camera compositions from the

original Night of the Living Dead, which would be

The Dead Next Door (1988)

more offensive if the shots were actually in focus. If

This $75,000 Troma-esque feature from Michigan

the filmmakers didn’t care about what they were

follows a bumbling anti-zombie task force (played

creating, why should horror fans?

by local actors who do not look like they would

qualify for employment as security guards at Wal-

Ghost Town (1988)

Mart) as they attempt to control a statewide zom-

In a film that could have been called “Zombies in

bie outbreak and stop a freakish pro-zombie cult.

Chaps,” Franc Luz stars as a man who becomes the

Zombie effects are plentiful but plasticky and

sheriff of a ghost town after the rotting corpse of

phony looking, and the badly delivered dialogue

the previous lawman (who was crucified on a wind-

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