The preoccupation with munching brains has become one of a zombies most defining features and the blame for this falls squarely at the feet of Dan O'Bannon's (Total Recall, Lifeforce- also reviewed) 1985 punk comedy horror.
Plot: In a bid to impress the new kid, the foreman of a medical supply warehouse inadvertently releases toxic zombie gas (from a military container, not a cheeky trump). This awakens the buried occupants of neighbouring Resurrection Cemetery (call a graveyard that and you're asking for trouble-especially in the 80's) and the indestructible zombies go about terrorizing a gang of punks and chowing down on brains (to be pronounced-bbbrrrraaaiiinnnzzzzz!!!) by using cop car radios like ordering law enforcement take-away. The naked tombstone dancing of B-movie nudist Linnea Quigley (Silent Night, Deadly Night- also reviewed) lives on in the minds of fans to this day.
Can't be missed if you're an aficionado of DIY cremation, zombie butterflies and seeing how far into a film you can get before realising it is NOT based on a true story.
Line of the film: "Send...More...Paramedics!"
Budget: $4,000,000
Gross: $14,237,000
Fun Fact: Leslie Nielsen (Naked Gun- Legend) was offered the part of Burt, but the film makers decided on Clu Gulanger when Det. Frank Drebin demanded too much cash. Just think what could have been...
review by Callum Stockdale.
Plot: In a bid to impress the new kid, the foreman of a medical supply warehouse inadvertently releases toxic zombie gas (from a military container, not a cheeky trump). This awakens the buried occupants of neighbouring Resurrection Cemetery (call a graveyard that and you're asking for trouble-especially in the 80's) and the indestructible zombies go about terrorizing a gang of punks and chowing down on brains (to be pronounced-bbbrrrraaaiiinnnzzzzz!!!) by using cop car radios like ordering law enforcement take-away. The naked tombstone dancing of B-movie nudist Linnea Quigley (Silent Night, Deadly Night- also reviewed) lives on in the minds of fans to this day.
Can't be missed if you're an aficionado of DIY cremation, zombie butterflies and seeing how far into a film you can get before realising it is NOT based on a true story.
Line of the film: "Send...More...Paramedics!"
Budget: $4,000,000
Gross: $14,237,000
Fun Fact: Leslie Nielsen (Naked Gun- Legend) was offered the part of Burt, but the film makers decided on Clu Gulanger when Det. Frank Drebin demanded too much cash. Just think what could have been...
review by Callum Stockdale.
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