ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE

Zombie Nightmare Movie Review

Tony (Jon Mikl Thor), a guy who looks like he should be challenging Ric Flair for the NWA World Title, dies after being struck by a car. Distraught, his mother contacts a voodoo priestess to bring her boy back. Now looking more like somebody The Sandman would cane, Tony returns from the dead to seek revenge on the teens responsible for his death. This 1987 film starts off hot, with Motörhead's "Ace of Spades" playing with the opening credits. Unfortunately, it's all down hill from there. Everything in this movie is just so slow, from the killer in his pursuit of the teens to actual slow motion shots, something I cannot stand in horror movies. Surprisingly, there are some recognizable names here. Adam West of "Batman" fame stars as a police captain. Shawn Levy, who plays lead bad guy Jim, would go on to direct Night at the Museum and become producer of a little show called Stranger Things. Finally, in her film debut, we have pre-Wayne's World Tia Carrere.

"She's a babe!"

As we know, just because a movie has a few people we recognize, it doesn't mean the acting will be good, and in this flick, it's far from it--in fact, the performances are horrendous from top to bottom. The action isn't much better--the kills are especially lame, but if you've ever wanted to see somebody impaled with a baseball bat, it does offer that. When our friend Tony is hit by the car, it's in slow motion, and seeing the body change places after is hilarious. The voodoo priestess will remind you of many similar characters straight out of a 1950's film--this is not a compliment. At one point, we see somebody reading Fangoria magazine--on the cover is Maximum Overdrive, a movie that looks like a Hitchcockian masterpiece compared to Zombie Nightmare. If you're a fan of 1980's heavy metal music, you may enjoy the soundtrack--while not a fan of the music myself, it did fit this movie quite well--this is also not a compliment. They throw in a little twist at the end, but you'll see it coming a mile away. Zombie Nightmare is not a good movie--it was once featured on "Mystery Science Theater 3000", and rightfully so; still, there's just enough charm and unintentional hilarity to keep you sticking around until the end, which is so bad it's awesome. 

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 4

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