It has occured to me that I have been watching mostly modern (1995+) Zombie flicks recently, so i’m working back through the years, and for the 2nd time in a row have gone for some mid 80’s comedy zombie fare, with Night Of The Creeps.
Night of the Creeps revolves around a Ginger loser kid, and his dribbly friend (well, he’s crutches-bound, but that counts as dribbly in my book). This annoying ginger nerd is so scared to chat to the girl of his lustings dreams that he would rather break into a medical research company and steal a corpse than simply go up and chat to her. Sheesh.
Surprisingly, this all goes wrong and the corpse they steal happens to be a frozen cryogenic zombie with a head full of toxic slugs. So, off trots the Zombie, his head explodes with all these slugs, the slugs feed themselves to regular humans, who turn slug filled zombies themselves… and so on. There is still plenty of time for the odd Shower scene (naturally), unexplained 50 year old dead murderer ressurections, and zombie cats and dogs. Also, to top it off there are some chubby E.T. aliens.
As with almost all Zombie films, this is ace. Gore, Norks and Laughs. What more do you want from this sort of film, eh?
Gore Score : 3\5
Norks Score : 3\5
Overall Score : 4\5. Works best with Alcohol, for sure. No scares, but plenty of nonsense.
Right. That’s the comedy film out of my system for now. I have an urging for some proper 70’s Italian Gore! So, what to choose, what to choose…
Stone. Cold. Classic.
What can I say? One film that I can watch over and over again, and never get sick of it. Everything is just so right here – classic looking Zombies (Tarman!), a fantastic naked graveyard dance, awesome quotes (“Send…More…Paramedics”). This ace movie should be mailed out to everyone at birth, to get them into classic Zombie films from an early age. What else can I say?
Best Bits.
- Obviously, the topless dancing on a gravestone
- Everything with the amazing Tarman “Live Brainssss”
- Humans slowly turning Zombie after inhaling TRIOXIN gas.
- The scenes from minute 1 to minute 91.
Yes, everything.
I was going to update my rating system for films, to make it more mature and shit, but will use the old rating here.
Gore 4\5
Norks 4\5
Overall 6\5 Hell yeah.
Bio-Zombie
Ah, zombies in a shopping mall. What a great idea!
Hong-Kong horror\comedy with zombies, mostly following 2 guys, Woody Invincible and Crazy-Bee. (Oh yes, i’m giving my kids these names!), as they work, go on the rob, drink and kill zombies.
Carrying around biological warfare chemicals in Lucozade bottles is probably not a good idea. Also, having it poured down your throat and then getting locked in a car boot in a shopping centre car-park after almost being run over probably isn’t going to make for your ideal day. This is probably why the guy Woody and Crazy-Bee left in said car-park goes ‘a bit mental’ and turns Zombie, and starts eating all the people in the Mall.
Cue lots of terrible makeup effects, fantastically bad English translations, and rampaging Shopping Mall Zombies, with some Computer Gaming references thrown in for good measure.
Certainly the best Zombie film from the East that I know of. Actually, it’s the only one. It’s pretty funny in places, and once the action ramps up after the 1st 45 minutes it’s actually a pretty decent zombie film. Pity the Gore isn’t that exciting, but then it does look like it had a budget of only a few hundred quid.
Gore Score 2\5
Nork Score 0\5
Overall Score 3\5
