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Rish's Reviews
Five minutes in, I knew this was going to be a great movie.
I was wrong. It was a very crappy movie. But Zombie Nightmare is the kind of film everybody needs to see . . . once. It's so bad it makes other movies look good in comparison. At the same time, it's so bad it's also entertaining.
This isn't the Romero variety of zombies here, but the old fashioned reanimated dead guy kind. Basically, when a local Neanderthalesque good guy is killed by a gaggle of evil teens, a witch doctor summons him back from the dead to seek vengeance.
This was 1980's as hell, and released by New World Video. Adam West! Tia Carrere! I love it!
It had no budget, no scares, it was badly shot and badly edited, it has TV level language, sex, and violence. It featured a booming Eighties metal soundtrack (with a bunch of nobodies and Motorhead) that overshadowed the dialogue and dates every other scene. There were thoroughly repugnant Eighties 'Waver characters who hang around the local burger joint. Very dangerous.
On the positive side, Tia Carrere has always been shockingly attractive. And a Cure poster hangs on her wall in one scene. Say what you will about Adam West, but the man has a great deal of charm, and comes across like a semi-talented actor in this. Oddly, there was a nice twist at one point. It actually had a pretty good ending too. I hate to admit it, but it has a fairly good premise and script. For shlock, anyway.
But that being said, at one point, a retarded cop gets a statement that the janitor heard screaming, then tells the medical examiners that the janitor "was sleeping like a baby, never heard a thing." Hmm. Said medical examiner is a silly-voiced attempted at comic relief, which, big surprise, doesn't work. I haven't figured out how the zombie goes from having Glam Rock-length hair to a Moe Howard haircut, but I'm not sure how this whole black magic resurrection thing works.
Okay, I don't know why I am looking for more things to say about this. The ending was the best part. That and Tia's cleavage.
I'd Recommend It To: Anyone who dares.
Note: I think I saw part of this on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" once. Is that possible?
Posted: October 11, 2004

Total Skulls: 18

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears		Tia Carrere
Former celebrity appears		Adam West
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
Hallucination/Vision
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Warning goes unheeded
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes
x years before/later
Flashback sequence
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc.
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?