Skin Of Your Teeth, 1999 - ★½

REVIEWED

Skin Of Your Teeth, 1999 - ★½

I viewed this as part of the "Ultimate Zombie Feast - DVD Collection". A pair of backpackers find refuge in a rural farm, when a zombie invasion has made the cities no go areas.

Yet another routine zombie short, thats far too pedestrian for a 14 minute film.

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Savages, 2001 - ★½

Savages, 2001 - ★½
REVIEWED

I viewed this as part of the "Ultimate Zombie Feast - DVD Collection". Savages is a found footage zombie short from India. Starts with a man recieving a camcorder for his birthday, then typically goofing around playing pranks his firends. For some unknown reason he decides it'd be fun to spend his big day roaming around a village in a forbidden zone, thats near to a mility base. As night begins to close in, one of the party gets attacked and slowly transforms into an undead killer.

Shoddy 40 minute zombie short, thats sole redeeming feature is the fact it comes from a country not known for zombie flicks.

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Zombeer, 2008 - ★★

Zombeer, 2008 - ★★
REVIEWED

I viewed this as part of the "Ultimate Zombie Feast - DVD Collection". An ill, drunken brewery worker falls into a vault of beer. He decays, corrupting its source, finally turning those who drink it into flesh eating zombies.

11 minute zombie short, pretty mediocre. Similair idea to Street Trash's viper, only causing zombies instead of body melting.

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Plagued, 2009 - ★★

Plagued, 2009 - ★★
REVIEWED

I viewed this as part of the "Ultimate Zombie Feast - DVD Collection". A man sits on a docks reminising on mankinds struggle with a zombie plague.

Routine 16 minute zombie short, thats a more serious modern '28 Days Later' urban feeling take on the genre.

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Not Even Death, 2009 - ★★

Not Even Death, 2009 - ★★
REVIEWED

I viewed this as part of the "Ultimate Zombie Feast - DVD Collection". A man keeps his zombified wife chained up in his cellar, while feeding her meat he mentions its their daughters birthday today and she longs to see her mother again.

Standard 5 minute zombie short, the shortest lengh film of the collection, nice enough makeup but nothing else really jumps out.

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KidZ, 2010 - ★★½

KidZ, 2010 - ★★½
REVIEWED

"People are slow and stupid when they're alive, they should be easier to handle when they're dead"

Max (Clive Holloway)

viewed this as part of the "Ultimate Zombie Feast - DVD Collection". Video game loving kidz are left to fend for themselves, when their parents die in a zombie invasion.

9 minute zombie short, that was no doubt heaps of fun for those involved. Cool garage guitar music, a simple enough short that packed a great faux ending.

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Fear Of The Living Dead, 2009 - ★★

Fear Of The Living Dead, 2009 - ★★
REVIEWED

I viewed this as part of the "Ultimate Zombie Feast - DVD Collection". A video zombie survival diary. Following our heroine over several days after the worlds gone to shit due to a zombie virus.

Below average 16 minute zombie short. I was bored shitless during this entry.

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Dead Hungry, 2009 - ★★★

Dead Hungry, 2009 - ★★★
REVIEWED

I viewed this as part of the "Ultimate Zombie Feast - DVD Collection". Campers flee to a cabin in the woods, when the locals start to crave brains.

Fun 9 minute zombie slapstick short, with the central zombie doing more harm to himself than the vacationers. Entertaining simple tale.

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The Book of Zombie, 2010 - ★★★

The Book of Zombie, 2010 - ★★★
REVIEWED

"Ok I'll do it for the beer..."

David (Brian Ibsen)

I viewed this as part of the "Ultimate Zombie Feast - DVD Collection". Zombie fans will be in heaven (not that theres any room left of course) with "The Book Of Zombie", its a low budget hour long zomcom, following a Utah couples attempts to survive a Mormon strained zombie outbreak during Halloween night.
Entertaining, lively paced troma like splatter horror comedy. I enjoyed it but it failed to really deliver anything I've not seen countless times before (though, thats pretty much par for course with the whole zombie genre). Characters and actors are likable enough, the lead was pretty Ash like. Most the gags are terrible, yet the odd line made me chuckle. Really amused me that it seemed to have a recurring agenda against Mormons. Featured heaps of film centric gags, including a cute little 'Shaun of the Dead' homage, having them hang out in an English sounding name bar.

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Bitten, 2008 - ★★½

Bitten, 2008 - ★★½
REVIEWED

I viewed this as part of the "Ultimate Zombie Feast - DVD Collection". A woman held hostage in her home slowly turns zombie, whilst she relives the nightmare of having earlier killed her husband and children.

Not bad 6 minute English zombie short, managed to cover enough story and tension in its brief duration.

Originally taken from Letterboxd

Zombie Apocalypse (2011)

Zombie Apocalypse (2011)
Director: Nick Lyon
Writers: Brooks Peck, Craig Engler
Country: USA Runtime: ● Soundtrack: Chris Ridenhour
Cast: Ving Rhames, Taryn Manning, Johnny Pacar
Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.

Review Coming Soon...

Themes Included: ___ ● ___ ● ___
___ ● ___ ● ___ ● ___ ● ___

Cultdb Totals
[Rated _ out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount _]
[Gorequota _/10]
[Boobquota _/10]

Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)

Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)
aka: La rebelión de las muertas
Director: León Klimovsky
Writer: Paul Naschy
Country: Spain Runtime: 89 min Soundtrack: Juan Carlos Calderón
Cast: Paul Naschy, Romy, Mirta Miller, María Kosty, Aurora de Alba
An Indian mystic uses magical chants to raise women from the dead, then sends them out to perform revenge killings for him.

A creepy masked man uses black magic to raise women from the dead, which he sends out to kill for him. The first attack happens randomly against a pair of grave robbers, then the masked voodoo killer focuses his attention on the followers of an Indian mystic guru named Krishna, who is based in London. After more murders a detective starts to suspect its occult black magic, and it slowly unfolds that its Krishna disfigured brother Kantaka, whose behind the crimes.

Fun Spanish occult drama from the great León Klimovsky, it was penned by legendary horror actor Paul Naschy under his real name Jacinto Molina. The plot its self is pretty loose making the film feel sloppy at times. Some of the murders seem way too random, the killer changes his look and method almost every murder, theres even a segment he looks a little like V from V for Vendetta. Sometimes the killer uses wax figures to conjure up the undead, other times he uses the figures to take control of living people, he even uses them directly to force people to commit suicide. Naschy has three roles, one as the central character Krishna (which he olive skins up well for), he's also Kantaka the disfigured brother, and during a dream sequence he plays an horned satan. The films got a cool atmosphere with the zombies usually slowed down to add impact, the bloods bright red and the visuals in general are glossy. I wouldn't say its Naschy's best or an essential must own Euro horror, but its entertaining and well worth a view.

Themes Included: Voodoo ● Indian Mystic ● Zombies
Chicken Head Chop ● Black Magic

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 12]
[Gorequota 4/10]
[Boobquota 3/10]

See No Evil (1999)

See No Evil (1999)
aka: Hasfalmetszök
Director: Zsolt Bernáth
Writer: Mark Kis-Szabo
Country: Hungary Runtime: 51 min Soundtrack: Zoltan Vegh
Cast: István Bartók, Bela Bene, Zsolt Benke
For their first job, two young hitmen have to kill the wife of a rich businessman at her Grandfather's house. Grandpa turns out to be a serial killer and the house is where he hides the bodies.

While on a stake out, two hit men tell each other tales to relieve the boredom. When they eventually find the location of their contract things get out of hand, because the dead start rising.

Hungarian amateur zombie nonsense, that from what I could make out, was trying to go for a Pulp Fiction meets Night of the Living Dead vibe. The film started extremely slow and was very wordy, I didn't have subtitles so not sure if the dialog was good or not. Some of the low rent gore towards the final was fun enough. At just under an hour it doesn't have enough action, shame the director didn't just release it as a 20 min short.

Themes Included: Fat Guy Shower ● Blooded Bath ● Graves
Old Man Zombie ● Hit Men ● Knife In Neck

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 3½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 3]
[Gorequota 4/10]
[Boobquota ½/10]

Die-ner (Get It?) (2010)

Die-ner (Get It?) (2010)
Director: Patrick Horvath
Cast: Joshua Grote, Parker Quinn, Liesel Kopp
Ken is a wandering and unassuming serial killer who enters a forsaken and empty diner during the graveyard shift. After a long conversation with the diner's lone waitress Rose, Ken kills her and promptly delivers the same fate to the diner's cook Fred. As Ken cleans up the bloody mess and deposits Rose and Fred in the walk-in freezer, company arrives. A young, unhappy married couple Rob and Kathy stop by the diner only to be followed by the arrival of Sheriff Duke Purdett. Ken now finds himself in the middle of a rousing game of cat and mouse which he manages well until the unthinkable happens. Back from the dead, Rose and Fred emerge from the freezer and start walking around! Once an unflappable serial killer, Ken now holds the young couple and wounded sheriff captive, trying frantically to escape the zombie predators.

A lone wandering young killer walks into a truckstop diner during its graveyard shift and kills the waitress and cook. Before he can dispose of the bodies the diner gets two new customers, a couple who are on the brink of separating. So the killer pretends he's running the place, which seems to work until a local sheriff whose familiar with the food joint turns up asking where everybody is, its then that they notice the once dead cook and waitress have risen from the dead and acting peculiar.

Running in at little over an hour this seems more in keeping with an episode of Amazing Stories than a typical modern horror movie. The characters are quirky enough and well enough acted but its just too tame a zombie romp that's squarely played for comic value (than say for action or chills) which for me at least, it failed to achieve as it wasn't actually funny. Not the worst zomcom out there, but there's many many more worth checking out before this.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 4½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 4]
[Gorequota 4/10]

Themes Included: Truckstop Diner ● Zombie Chef ● Zombie Waitress

The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)

The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)
aka: World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2
Directors: Michael Bartlett, Kevin Gates
Cast: Philip Brodie, Alix Wilton Regan, Rob Oldfield
Three months have passed since a viral outbreak wiped out 99.9% of the world's population, turning its victims into flesh-eating living dead. In the UK, a surviving band of soldiers and civilians have taken refuge at a rural military barracks. Life in this new world is tough and brutal, but hope appears when a high level communication is received from a military base on the coast, telling of sanctuary elsewhere in Europe... But just as salvation appears to be in reach, the base suffers an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the living dead! The surviving handful of troops and civilians must now make their way to the coast to uncover the truth behind the message. Their perilous journey takes them across a now treacherous, death-ravaged landscape, where the living dead are vast in number and wandering bandits impose their own malicious sense of law and order. What follows is a journey into hell and a desperate battle against all odds for the very survival of the human race.

Picking up around the same period as the first Zombies Diaries, this time just following one group of survivors a small set of terrortial army recruits. Even though they're armed they still face the same hazards as any survivor which is primery the undead masses, but also with dwindling food, clean water and medical supplys they also need to fight off a gang of backwards rural survivors.

With having watched both parts 1 and 2 back to back, I came into this one fearing the worse, but I'm glad to say I was proven wrong. Its still no '28 Days/Weeks Later' but its a massive improvement over the first film, clearly due to its improved budget, which in turn as been spent on real actors, helps also that they actually spent a little time on the plot and dialogue. Also unlike its predecessor Zombie Diaries 2 has even got a decent ammount of undead (they don't actually call them zombies within the film itself). Downside again for me at least was how serious it takes itself, a little bit of humour once in while wouldn't have gone a miss, the rape scene seemed tacked on more than being essential to the plot, but who knows by the 3rd outing they could have a breakthrough like Dog Soldiers on their hands.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount NA]
[Gorequota 6/10]

Themes Included: Zombies ● Rape ● Army
Medical Team

The Zombie Diaries (2006)

The Zombie Diaries (2006)
Directors: Michael Bartlett, Kevin Gates
Cast: Russell Jones, Craig Stovin, Jonnie Hurn
Brace yourself... This time it's for real.

The film compiles various video diaries, following groups of survivors in the aftermath of a bird flu like virus that has hit the UK. Causing the dead rise and kill. The undead arn't the only problem as some of the survivors are going mad, doing as they please and taking what they want by any means necessary.

I'm watching this direct to video low budget English zombie yarn pretty late, having passed on the chance of viewing it years earlier due to lack of interest, I'm only seeing it now due to recently receiving a sequel. Interesting idea having you follow multiple camera weilding groups, its just a shame the locations they use are all the same bland farmyards and their surounding areas. Instead of say more populated up built places like the supermarket in Dawn Of The Dead. Zombie Diaries just hasn't the same style or substance as the similiar found footage themed zombie film [rec] or Romero's Diary Of The Dead, that said I've seen far worse zombie movies in my life (its a busy sub-genre), it was just too dull for my tastes, so would have to say Zombie Diaries is only suitable for the more undemanding zombie fans.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 3 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount NA]
[Gorequota 5/10]

Themes Included: Found Footage ● Zombies ● Army

Quarantine 2 Terminal (2011)

Quarantine 2 Terminal (2011)
Director: John Pogue
Cast: Mercedes Masöhn, Josh Cooke and Mattie Liptak
A follow up to 2008’s Quarantine, this entry was directed by John Pogue and “picks up later that night at LAX, as passengers board a flight to Nashville. When a passenger becomes violently ill with a mysterious rabies-like virus, the plane makes an emergency landing at a large metropolitan airport. Jenny (Mercedes Masohn), a heroic yet inexperienced flight attendant, takes charge of the safety of her passengers. Relieved when a swarm of heavily equipped emergency vehicles, police units and the CDC arrive, Jenny and the passengers soon discover that they have been quarantined and are now trapped. Desperate to escape, Jenny enlists the help of one of the surviving passengers, a kindergarten teacher, Henry (Josh Cooke), to devise a plan to survive.

The story centers around the original tenant from the previous films appartment bringing contaminated rats onboard a plane. Of course the rats manage to infect a passanger and its not long before they need to make an unschedualed stop at an airport. Its not long before the infected passanger spreads the plague to others from the plane, which ends up with the terminal being locked down to curb a greater spread. Its left to the remaining uninfected to try to survive and escape.

Trite sequel to Quarantine which was in turn a remake of the fantastic Spanish zombie film [rec]. Quarantine 2 bares next to no resemblence to [rec] or its sequel, and almost none to Quarantine. The zombies are now more like sweaty plague victims than risen undead brain chompers (I guess to save on make-up fx). The action is painfully pedestrian and the plot is laughably bad for most the duration you're under the impression it was started by school hamsters. Started with an interesting setup not unlike a typical disaster movie, but rapidly spirals to pure crap. The actors seem ashamed at being involved in such a dire film yet for most part manage to do their jobs well. Really poor, I'd avoid it like the plague.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 3 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount 11]
[Gorequota 3/10]

Themes Included: Air Hostesses ● Biting ● Shooting
Rats ● Eyeball Injection ● Doomsday Cult ● Thermal Vision