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The Val Lewton Horror Collection (Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People / I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Bedlam / The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship / The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark)

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The Val Lewton Horror Collection
The Val Lewton Horror Collection
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Note recycled Lewton props.

The Val Lewton Horror Collection (Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People / I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Bedlam / The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship / The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark)
Starring: Simone Simon , Kent Smith , Tom Conway , Jane Randolph , and Jack Holt
Director: Jacques Tourneur , Robert Wise , and Gunther von Fritsch
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Release Date: 2005-10-04

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Val Lewton's name is synonymous with the subtlest, most mysterious brand of horror filmmaking in Hollywood's golden age, and the nine horror classics he produced at RKO between 1942 and 1946 constitute the most remarkable cycle of creativity in B-movie history. (For the record, the Lewton/RKO legacy also includes two non-horror entries, Youth Runs Wild and Mademoiselle Fifi.)

Before becoming a film producer, the Russian-born Lewton was a prolific writer of pulp fiction, nonfiction, and a couple of pornographic novels. He also worked for years as assistant to David O. Selznick, a legendary producer with a distinctive personal signature--and a flair for grandiosity Lewton himself never emulated. It's ever so revealing that, on Selznick's Gone With the Wind, it was Lewton who came up with the idea for the famous rising shot of the Atlanta railyard filled with Southern wounded, with the Confederate flag streaming above--only he idly proposed it as a joke, never imagining that anyone would actually film such a spectacularly ambitious scene.

In 1942 Lewton left Selznick to undertake a series of horror films for RKO Radio Pictures. The studio would give him a budget around $200,000 per picture and a title RKO deemed to be grabby; Lewton would have a free hand as long as he stayed on budget, used the title, and gave the studio a salable movie of second-feature length (around 70 minutes). Over time, Lewton would increasingly have trouble with studio supervisors, but RKO was the right place for him. Although low in the pecking order among Hollywood majors, the studio made up for its lack of MGM-style glamour and Warner Bros. grit-and-gusto by working in a finely filigreed, almost miniaturist style. The art department under Van Nest Polglase and Albert S. D'Agostino was capable of exquisite artisanry, and in Nicholas Musuraca, a master of low-key cinematography and supple camerawork, Lewton found an invaluable collaborator in creating moody shadow-worlds where what you couldn't see was more disquieting than what you could.

He was also fortunate in having Jacques Tourneur to direct his first three efforts (they had teamed years earlier on the Bastille-storming sequence for Selznick's A Tale of Two Cities). They scored first time out of the gate with both a popular hit and a masterpiece: Cat People (1942). The story involves a pretty young Serbian woman in Manhattan (Simone Simon) convinced that her ancestors had practiced animal worship during the Middle Ages--and that she herself might shape-change into a lithe, ravening panther if her passions were aroused. The film is uncannily successful in keeping the viewer guessing whether this is a phobia borne of morbid obsession and sexual repression, or a genuine, horrific possibility. There are two sequences of matchless artistry and almost unbearable suspense--a lonely, echoing walk through pools of lamplight alongside Central Park, and a late-night swim in a deserted indoor pool--that build to throat-grabbing climaxes and remain milestones in the history of screen horror.

Many critics feel that the second Lewton-Tourneur endeavor, I Walked With a Zombie (1943), is both men's finest work. The title is so lurid that the heroine-narrator (Frances Dee) must shrug it off with her very first words, yet the movie is an amazingly delicate and poetic piece of spellbinding--nothing less than a reworking of Jane Eyre on a voodoo island in the Caribbean. Other horror aficionados prefer the more mainline ferocity of The Leopard Man (1943), an adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich story about a serial killer strewing corpses along the U.S.-Mexican border. Although on one level this is the Lewton film that veers closest to conventional mystery-suspense, there's no end of unsettling ambiguity (another black panther on the loose!) and hints of occultism and religious mania.

RKO promoted Tourneur to A-movies after this; Lewton would never again have so masterly a directorial partner. Yet in a weird sense (which is only appropriate), this underscores how much Lewton--with his wealth of arcane historical lore and storytelling archetypes, his quiet, patient attention to detail, and his taste for oblique narrative--was the essential auteur of all his films. Promoting first Mark Robson and then Robert Wise from the editing table, Lewton went on to make the deeply mysterious The Seventh Victim (1943) and The Ghost Ship (1943), two films in which such grotesque elements as Satan worship and murderous psychopathology are folded away inside eerily drifty, almost becalmed sleepwalks into eternal night. The Seventh Victim--a movie populated with more walking dead than Lewton's out-and-out zombie picture--is one of the cinema's supreme meditations on the ways lives brush against one another in the spaces of a great, impersonal city. And The Ghost Ship (the rarest of Lewton's films, owing to a ruinous copyright suit) is like a fever dream from which the viewer never awakens.

That's enough for a legacy, surely. Yet there remain The Curse of the Cat People (1944), a sequel that is not quite a sequel, a pretend-horror movie that's really a contemplation of the fragility of childhood; Isle of the Dead (1945), a doomed reverie about travelers who escape the Goya-esque chaos of a 19th-century war only to be beset with plague on a miasma-shrouded island; The Body Snatcher (1945), an atmospheric Robert Louis Stevenson adaptation that invokes the grisly history of graverobbers Burke and Hare, and supplies a together-again-for-the-last-time occasion for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi; and Bedlam (1946), the Hogarth painting come to life to portray the real-life horrors of an 18th-century insane asylum. Bedlam's critical and box-office failure ended Lewton's quasi-independent status at RKO; he would live to make only three other, unsuccessful films.

James Agee, the premier American film critic of the 1940s, reckoned that Val Lewton was one of the three foremost creative figures in Hollywood--an assessment yet more impressive when we consider that the other two were Charles Chaplin and Walt Disney. His greatest films--Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, The Seventh Victim--are towering achievements, and even his half-realized projects are haunting experiences, the products of an utterly distinctive sensibility. This is an extraordinary collection. --Richard T. Jameson

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Val Lewton, a famous RKO Radio Pictures producer, redefined the horror genre with low-budget, high-box office films. Now available are nine of these horror classics on DVD in the all new Val Lewton Horror Collection. Exclusive to the collection are a new documentary on the producer and 3 of the 9 films.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Greg Mank with Simone Simon on Cat People and Curse of the Cat People, Kim Newman and Steve Jones on I Walked With a Zombie, Steve Haberman with Robert Wise on The Body Snatcher, Tom Weaver on Bedlam, and Steve Haberman on The Seventh Victim.
Documentaries:Shadows In The Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

The Val Lewton Horror Collection.......2007-06-25

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"Cat People"
What you can't see "will" hurt you

A man marries a strange woman with a European accent. She seems shy, but she actually carries a secret. Seems she knows she came from a line of "Cat People" and passion can bring out her claws. This is reinforced in a scene at a restaurant where another one of her kind recognizes her. She also suspects her new hubby's female friend has designs on him. So we get a spooky scene at a swimming pool at night alone in the gym.

There was not enough money or sufficient technology to show scary cat people. They tried people in cat suits, but they just looked cutesy. So they decided to just show shadows and sounds. The rest was up to your imagination. It is a psychological movie with a touch of film noir. ---------------------------------------------
"The Curse of the Cat People"
In many ways superior to the original

The Curse of the Cat People (1944) is not really sequel to Cat People (1942) as much as a stand alone physiological thriller that just happens to be an extension of the original characters. We have seen the formula before but you may not have seen such a presentation; a lonely child Amy Reed (Ann Carter) seeks a playmate that understands her. Who best but the spirit of Oliver's dead wife, Irena (Simone Simon) one of the cat people. Naturally this upsets the parents. Toss in Amy's new relation to reclusive neighbor Julia Farren (Julia Dean). Julia has problems of her own relating to her daughter. The story just gets complex from there.

The question is, is it dangerous to fantasize that much and what will become of the characters in the end.
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"I Walked with a Zombie"
A classic Val Lewton production

We are treated to exotic titles and expectations with titles such as "I walked With a Zombie." My only encounters with Zombies are those that process in an UNIX operating system that can not be killed. I also watched "Weekend at Bernie's II."

As with other Lewton productions he got a way with a psychological thriller in the guise of a monster movie. In the days of sailing ships a nurse (Frances Dee) is employed to go to San Sebastian to look after a plantation owner's wife (Christine Gordon.) She fined that her charge is more than just a victim of a disease that heft her without will. Turns out if you cut the wife she does not bleed. We all know what that means.

The true story is the relationship to man and wife, man and nurse, nurse and wife, brother and brother, brother and wife, need I say more? Could it mean that there is nothing supernatural or is love moving in mysterious natural.

Can this all be straightened out or is Jessica Holland the wife destined to be zomiated for ever and the nurse must learn to love from afar?

Yeah Lord pity them who are dead and give peace and happiness to the living.
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"The Body Snatcher"
Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is through error that a man tries and rises. It is through tragedy he learns. All the roads of learning begin in darkness and go out into the light." Hippocrates of Gos

This film has the psychological complexity of a Val Lewton production but is a lot more graphic than most of his productions where he just implies violence. He even takes it out on innocent dogs. I feel that some one was pushing Lewton from behind to be more vicious with this film.

A young student (Russell Wade) wants to become a doctor like the great Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane (Henry Daniell.) Little does he know what it will entail?

The DVD has a voiceover commentary from the late Director Robert Wise who directed "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music." Surprisingly he said that the original basic script was written by Philip MacDonald.
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"Isle of the Dead"
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE / Hamlet Act 1. Scene V abt. 1601

`Under conquest and oppression the people of Greece allowed their legends to degenerate into superstition; the Goddess Aphrodite giving way to the `Vorvolaka.' This nightmare figure was very much alive in the mines of the peasants when Greece fought the victorious war of 1912."

Gen. Nikolas Pherides (Boris Karloff) is an experienced watcher. That is he must watch over his troops to be sure the do what they are supposed to and survive to win the day.

Finding some time take a war correspondent (Marc Cramer) to visit the grave yard island where his wife is buried. There he meats a strange collection of people and an unseen enemy that is much deadlier than any bullet. Will he be able to fight it logically and scientifically? Or will his cultural fears lead him to see the truth?

Once again we see that Boris Karloff can act and that Val Lewton can take a scary title and turn it from a cheap horror movie into a classic Psychological Thriller.
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"Bedlam"
Story suggested by The William Hogarth painting Bedlam plate 8 "The Rake's Progress

Once again Val Lewton takes what would have been a second rate horror story and turns it into a sit on the edge of your seat psychological thriller. The basic question of the story is the same as the one in his movie "Ghost Ship"; that is, is man fundamentally good and helpful of others or is he so self centered that he will act even to his own ultimate demise? An added element is that of not quite being granted all mental faculties.

The year is 1791 Lord Mortimer (Billy House) is just one of the upper class (Wiggs) that gets his kicks from watching the loonies of Bedlam loon. His protégé (Anna Lee) is discussed at the treatment of the "guests" by the head apothecary, Master George Sims (Boris Karloff who can actually act). She attempts to correct this to the detriment of Lord Mortimer. So Lord Mortimer and Sims invite her as a guest to Bedlam.

Will she ever get out or just go crazy. While there she applies a theory supplied by a Quaker (Richard Fraser), one of the Society of Friends if this works the tables may turn on Sims. What can Sims say in his defense?
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"The Leopard Man"
All or our lives are like the ball bouncing at the top of the fountain

Rival entertainers meet in a club in New Mexico Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) brings in a leopard to upstage Clo-Clo (Margo). But Clo-Clo gets the last laugh when she chases the leopard off with her castanets.

All is fun rivalry until people start dying. Naturally the local authorities think it is the leopard. But Jerry Manning (Dennis O'Keefe) who rented the leopard has a theory that this is the work of a demented person. This theory is sort of supported by Dr. Galbraith (James Bell) the local museum curator. To make matters worse the leopard's owner, Charlie How-Come (Abner Biberman) does not remember where he was at the time.

As with the cat people it is what you don't see that can harm you. And the simile turning of a card can mark you for death.

You may recognize Dynamite the leopard that was also used in the movie "Cat People".

Produced by Val Lewton (7 May 1904, Yalta, Crimea, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) ) whose story telling device is unique in that this is more of a psychological film that does not focus on any one person as they are all pawns in a much larger story. Some time it verges on the surreal.

Now that you have seen the film read the book "Black Alibi" by Cornell Woolrich.
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"The Ghost Ship"
A new third mate on his first long sea voyage in introduced to captain and crew. Before he steps on bard he is warned by a blond man. He runs into a mute. And before they even leave port Jensen is found dead, just a heat attack. "With his death the waters of the sea are open to us. But there will be other deaths and the agony of dieing."

Don't go looking for anything supernatural as this is a Val Lewton movie. I would pay close attention to the characters. One of them may be a bit unhinged. The big question in this story is man's nature to help or ignore their fellow man.
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"Shadows in the Dark"
This is more of a Val Lewton biography with more emphasis on his producer years.

The Val Lewton Horror Collection.......2007-06-25

While the plots alone are enough to distinguish Lewton's brand of horror from other practitioners--a mysterious Serbian beauty might or might not have the ability to transform herself into a panther in "Cat People," a death-haunted New York woman is pursued by a cabal of satanists in "The Seventh Victim"--these films are also masterpieces of noir atmospherics. Karloff, an intellectual bored by ghoulish makeup, emerged from semi-retirement to make three pictures with Lewton: "Bedlam," "The Body Snatcher," and "The Isle of the Dead," with Bela Lugosi. It was a fruitful relationship. And this omnibus collection amply demonstrates Lewton's pulpy, lurid genius.

Quintessential Lewton..........2006-10-31

I've read the other reviews, and agree with most. Still, my favorite is "Curse of the Cat People". I've always been fascinated by (good) films that see life through the eyes of a child.Next to "To Kill a Mockingbird", I can't think of another film that brought me back to those simple, sweet times that adults just didn't get! (Except for Atticus, of course). I was also annoyed that the collection was in a tall box that would never fit on my shelf; I hate to separate them to fit on my shelf, alphabetically. Lewton had that wonderful idea, realized by Tourneur, with the glorious black & white photography, crisp and clear as a bell, and much appreciated by those of us who love outstanding film-making. I enjoy this collection a lot, but wish I could put it on the shelf with my other "collections", in a nice box.

Elegant horror.......2006-10-30

Steven Spielberg and Brian DePalma should be locked in a closet with a projection screen and forced to watch these films repeatedly until they swear an oath to imitate them. Made on what Tom Cruises' cleaning bill for one day's shoot would be adjusted for 1940 dollars, and infinitely superior to anything they have done. "Curse of the Cat People" and "The Seventh Victim" are largely unknown but the best and most subtle of these works. Less is more, I only wish there were more of them.

Note recycled Lewton props........2006-08-31

Val Lewton's productions have long been treasured by cinematic aestheticians. This accrues not only from his singularly intelligent treatment and subtle presentation of macabre themes, but from his recurring Lewton "stock company" of players. How we Lewton devotees savor the return of Jane Randolph, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Russell Wade, Sir Lancelot, Tom Conway, Ottola Nesmith ! etc. etc.

Less noted perhaps, are the recurring props to be spotted in Lewton films. Thus, Ottola Nesmith's tufted Victorian sofa from "The Leopard Man," later becomes the property of Miss Julia Dean in "Curse of the Cat People." Likewise, Miss Nesmith's daughter in the same film, ("Teresa") sleeps in the same curly maple bed destined to later belong to little Ann Carter in "Curse...".

Many other Lewton props follow this same recycling pattern, i.e., Kim Hunter in "Seventh Victim," turns up in that film's cocktail party sequence sporting Jane Randolph's fur trimmed topcoat from "Cat People"; the exterior double doors to Simone Simon's "Cat People" brownstone apartment building do double duty as the entrance to a hotel in "Seventh Victim," as well as serving as portals to the museum in "Leopard Man."

These delightful economies, however, may have more to do with RKO than Mr. Lewton, since Julia Dean's Victorian chairs may also be spotted in the non Lewton productions, "Beware My Lovely" and "Experiment Perilous."

I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher

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Lewton Double Feature
I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher
"There was a family that lived on the isle of St. Sebastian a long, long while..."
Great double feature
Body Snatcher Excellent; Zombie Okay

I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher
Starring: James Ellison , Frances Dee , Tom Conway , Edith Barrett , and James Bell
Director: Jacques Tourneur , and Robert Wise
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Release Date: 2005-10-04

Description

Literary classics become screen horror classics when given the Lewton touch. Take the gothic romance of Jane Eyre, reset it in the West Indies, add the direction of Jacques Tourneur (Cat People) and the overriding terror of the living dead and you have I Walked with a Zombie. Frances Dee plays the nurse who witnesses the strange power of voodoo. Boris Karloff plays the title role in the Lewton adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher, directed with subtle calculation by versatile Robert Wise. A doctor (Henry Daniell) needs cadavers for medical studies and Karloff is willing to provide them one way or another. Don't miss his scene with fellow horror icon Bela Lugosi.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:I Walked With A Zombie - Kim Newman and Steve Jones. The Body Snatcher - Steve Haberman with Robert Wise
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

Lewton Double Feature.......2007-06-25

These titles are two of Lewton's best, with "Zombie" a stand-out, due to its sublimely creepy atmosphere, a literate script (reputedly based on "Jane Eyre"!), and charismatic turns by both Dee and Conway. Exploration of voodoo practices adds spice as well. "The Body Snatcher" is also a grabber, with excellent character actor Daniell in top form, and Karloff riveting as the sneering, cold-blooded Gray, a role that displays the star's impressive acting chops without all the Frankenstein make-up. "Snatcher" also includes a secondary role for Bela Lugosi as MacFarlaine's servant Joseph. Sadly, Bela's career was on the wane at this point, and this would mark Karloff and Lugosi's last screen outing together.

I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher.......2007-05-13

"I Walked with a Zombie"

We are treated to exotic titles and expectations with titles such as "I walked With a Zombie." My only encounters with Zombies are those that process in an UNIX operating system that can not be killed. I also watched "Weekend at Bernie's II."

As with other Lewton productions he got a way with a psychological thriller in the guise of a monster movie. In the days of sailing ships a nurse (Frances Dee) is employed to go to San Sebastian to look after a plantation owner's wife (Christine Gordon.) She fined that her charge is more than just a victim of a disease that heft her without will. Turns out if you cut the wife she does not bleed. We all know what that means.

The true story is the relationship to man and wife, man and nurse, nurse and wife, brother and brother, brother and wife, need I say more? Could it mean that there is nothing supernatural or is love moving in mysterious natural.

Can this all be straightened out or is Jessica Holland the wife destined to be zomiated for ever and the nurse must learn to love from afar?

Yeah Lord pity them who are dead and give peace and happiness to the living.

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"The Body Snature"
Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is through error that a man tries and rises. It is through tragedy he learns. All the roads of learning begin in darkness and go out into the light." Hippocrates of Gos

This film has the psychological complexity of a Val Lewton production but is a lot more graphic than most of his productions where he just implies violence. He even takes it out on innocent dogs. I feel that some one was pushing Lewton from behind to be more vicious with this film.

A young student (Russell Wade) wants to become a doctor like the great Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane (Henry Daniell.) Little does he know what it will entail?

The DVD has a voiceover commentary from the late Director Robert Wise who directed "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music." Surprisingly he said that the original basic script was written by Philip MacDonald.

"There was a family that lived on the isle of St. Sebastian a long, long while...".......2007-02-02

Excellent, somewhat campy, often genuinely creepy film from the fine French director Jacques Tourneur, I Walked with a Zombie is less well-known than his famous Cat People but perhaps even more accomplished. Something of a Jane Eyre story recast in the West Indies, the film features an added treat in watching the calypso great Sir Lancelot act as a kind of Greek chorus, narrating the action.

Great double feature.......2006-07-20

I rented this for I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE because I was intrigued that it is supposedly "inspired" by Jane Eyre, perhaps my favorite book. Well, like Jane Eyre it has a young woman in love with a man she works for who has a "mad" wife and both mad women had spent some time on tropical islands but the similarities pretty much end there. The story told in ZOMBIE is compelling and though not pure horror is quite spooky at times. The nurse taking the mad woman through the sugar canes to get to the voodoo ceremony was suspenseful and chilling and there are some other creepy touches throughout the movie. The atmosphere of the island is deftly created by a soundtrack of songs and mysterious drumbeats as well as decent acting and believable sets. The romance between the nurse and the "zombie's" husband was of secondary importance to the voodoo tale.
I wasn't even going to watch THE BODYSNATCHER but when I saw it had both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in it I thought it deserved a look. The movie was well plotted and paced and the secondary story of the crippled little girl fit in well with the main plot line. I don't know enough about 19th century Scotland to say the setting of the story is historically accurate but the movie sure gave the feeling and mood of that time and place. And like "Zombie" this is a well told story that makes sense in it's context. Karloff's acting as "the bodysnatcher" is great and Lugosi has a fairly minor part as a doctor's servant who tries to blackmail Karloff and is killed in a rather chilling scene. The ending is a little over the top but I have to admit I liked it. Both movies are just a little over an hour a piece so they make a great double feature.

Body Snatcher Excellent; Zombie Okay.......2006-05-02

BODY SNATCHER - Everybody has their favorites of the Val Lewton DVD Horror Collection films and this was mine.
Henry Daniell, Boris Karloff, Edith Atwater,Russell Wade, Sharyn Moffet and Bela Lugosi all acted well. I had forgotten that Karloff was a decent actor, not just some Frankenstein monster who couldn't deliver a line. He had a creepy voice, too, which lent itself nicely to horror films. I just found him fascinating here.

In addition, this movie had a well-known director, Robert Wise, and the story was adaption of a Robert Louis Steevenson. So, you see, this film had good bloodlines, pun intended. This was not some schlocky Ed Wood B-film. This movie is a high class affair.

I found it more of a crime story than anything else as a doctor (Daniell), trying to further his knowledge and needing human specimens (dead) to continue his research, has his graveyard supply cut off to him and then has to have his helper (Karloff) kill people to provide him the bodies. Meanwhile, a young and more moral student of the doctor, gets wind of what's happening and doesn't share his mentor's view that the "ends justify the means."

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE - Well, this was nothing like I thought it might be, which means good news and bad news.

Bad news - very little action, almost none. Mostly talk, talk and more talk. This was much more of melodrama with the only skeletons were the ones in the closet that are revealed near the end, uncovering past sins in a family. With the title of this film, I can't expecting something dramatic, something to happen....but it didn't.

Good news - The black-and-white film offered some great visuals, wonderful contrasts and,"atmospheric" cinematography. That, and the strange-looking anorexic voodoo man, are my main good memories of this film, which was transfered nicely on DVD.

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NOT ENOUGH FOOTAGE OF THE VERY GROSS ZOMBIE
the hum-bie mind
Steal for under 5 bucks
awesome concept, slow pace
I, Zombie: A Chronical Of Pain

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Starring: Giles Aspen , Mia Fothergill , Claire Griffin , Peter Hackett (III) , and Paul Hyett
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NOT ENOUGH FOOTAGE OF THE VERY GROSS ZOMBIE.......2006-11-25

Near the end of the movie is when the main charactor turns 100% into a VERY GROSS and realistic looking zombie which to me was not enough.This movie would of been better if they showed this dead guy looking VERY GROSS starting at about 20 minutes into the movie,but they didnt.

the hum-bie mind.......2006-11-10

this movie is unlike any other zombie film ive come into contact with, its a psycholgical movie that the lead character happens to be turning zombie.the effects a understandable for low budget but this movie deserves a look for other reasons. The story leaves you with not alot of closure but you feel satisfied because you know its best that way. The beginning,middle & end are all done well. Charcter building was just right. The zombie film is unique and this kind of story would be best if not ever attempted by anyone again.

Steal for under 5 bucks.......2006-09-26

This is an Interesting film. It's sad in a lot of ways and humanizes the zombie state by moving you to feel for the main characters past as a human, and future as a zombie. This movie is an absolute STEAL for under $5 (most used DVD's of this title are under $5)

awesome concept, slow pace.......2006-08-11

i had this on VHS and finally decided to watch it again after a few years of sitting in a box in my basement. i loved the basic idea. the movie even went so far as to show what happens to a zombie when he tries to pleasure himself with a little jerk action (it would probably be the worst thing out of the entire ordeal).

i didn't have much expectations, but i was somewhat surprised at the acting. i'm not talking about the victims, they were bad. i'm talking about the main character. he actually put on quite a good performance. i was impressed how he accurately portrayed the suffering of a man who is dying but cannot die.

the only problem i really had was the pace was just too damn slow. i understand it takes some time to show the character's suffering, but this movie was bordering on tedium. that is the only reason i had to drop this movie a couple of stars.

I, Zombie: A Chronical Of Pain.......2005-10-05

Basic Plot: The main character is hiking in an unknown area when he is bitten by a strange and obviously very ill young woman. He is forced into the lifestyle of a hermit when physical and mental decay sets in, as well as a strong urge to kill others and eat their bodies.

With a decent amount of gore (including a few scenes that'll definitely make you squirm), above-average acting for a low-budget B-movie, and an undeniably original and fresh concept for a zombie flick, "I Zombie" certainly deserves a rental. A purchase, on the other hand, you should think twice about. I found the storyline to be a bit tedious and the overall feel of the film to be very amature (which I suppose could be a good thing for some B-fans, but this was almost student-film level). It's irresistible to any zombie fan such as myself, and I'm glad I saw it. Originality is very intriguing to any viewer, and this certainly has that. But it doesn't have much more to separate from any other straight-to-DVD horror flick. And who says that's a bad thing?

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Good makeup, but everything else is bad.
Very Bizarre little B-Movie
It's horrible, but not in the way you might think
Sorry, No Skin Eating Here!
Get This One On DVD

I Eat Your Skin
Starring: William Joyce , Heather Hewitt , Betty Hyatt Linton , Dan Stapleton , and Walter Coy
Director: Del Tenney
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I Drink Your Blood
I Drink Your Blood
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ASIN: B00008AOV1
Release Date: 2003-02-18

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Good makeup, but everything else is bad........2005-02-16

I Eat Your Skin (Del Tenney, 1964)

To call I Eat Your Skin a bad film is sort of like calling a beagle a dog. You should know simply from the title that you're dealing with a sixties exploitation flick. The problem is, there's not enough exploitation. You've got some very attractive women, none of whom ever actually gets naked, and a bunch of zombies running around who never actually get to eat anyone. (No, despite the name, no skin is actually consumed during the film.) The script is horrible, the fight scenes are hysterical, and the acting is atrocious. About the only thing that kept me watching (and I'll admit, I hit the fast forward button more than once and skimmed) was that the zombie makeup, which was nothing but face makeup and, at times, a little on the chest, was creepily effective for no reason I can put my finger on. Unfortunately, special effects do not a film make, and are certainly not enough to have me recommend this film to unsuspecting movie renters. **

Very Bizarre little B-Movie.......2003-04-02

Well, I would have never seen this little flick if not for two of my friends. They were at a mall, shopping for DVDs and they saw the title... Instantly they thought of me, which really worries me...

But, not one to waste a free DVD, I watched this immediately. It's entertaining, to be sure, but it is really BAD. The acting, the writing, those good ol' "Special" effects. Awful, all of them, which, I think, is the reason it's so entertaining.

The zombies are great. They look as if they're covered in scrambled eggs.

But the best thing, of course, is the score. Why did they give it a "James Bond"-ish score? I don't know but it works!

My only problem is a story point: It's not a musical. If it had been, it would've been a five, easily. Alas, it's not, so it's only a three...

It's horrible, but not in the way you might think.......2003-03-03

Oh, brother. We'd better start with the title of this movie. There is in fact no skin eaten by anyone at any time in this movie; in other words, the title makes no sense whatsoever. Some people seem to like the title; while it certainly gets your attention, I don't think it necessarily makes you want to pick this title up. Even I, a self-proclaimed epicure in the terrible, put off watching this monstrosity of a movie for some time because of the title; now, I Eat Your Heart or even I Eat Your Liver would make me eager to experience a movie; I Eat Your Skin just puts me off. So what's the story here? Well, for no reason I can figure out, Harris, a playboy author of adventure books that read more like trashy romance novels, is invited to accompany his agent to Voodoo Island in the Caribbean-it would make a great setting for his next novel, he is told. The place sounds less than glorious to me: poisonous snakes all over the place, natives practicing voodoo and human sacrifice, so-called zombies running amuck. When Harris' agent gets to the part about a female to male ratio of five to one, though, our hero is all gangbusters to go. After a harrowing beach landing, Harris is attacked by a zombie and watches him slice the head off of a fisherman (there's one good thing about the movie, at least). The gang eventually makes it to the home of a doctor working on a cure for cancer using snake venom. Harris immediately puts the move on the guy's daughter, but then zombies try to run off with his new girl. From that point on, it's man versus zombie.

The ending of this movie, like the rest of it, is quite ridiculous. The sound of airplane tires squealing on sand and the fact that Harris' thoroughly drenched gun fires perfectly well are early clues to an utter disrespect for logic in this script. There are also far too many minutes of natives jerking spasmodically around doing the voodoo that they do so well. The zombies are rather impressive, though (although the transformations from human to zombie we have to watch a couple of times leave something to be desired). Their faces are all scabrous with skin peeling away all over the place, and they really do have bugged-out eyes, looking as if they each have two boiled eggs slapped across their faces.

I'm sure that zombie lovers will find some enjoyment here, but I wasn't overly impressed. All I got out of this movie was some unintended comedy. For instance, with a horde of zombies close on their heels, the men tell the women to stay there at the edge of the jungle while they go down and get the plane ready. Guess what happens to the women? Then there is the inexplicable yet very fortuitous appearance of a boat on the island just when it is most needed; even one of the characters asks "Where'd that boat come from?" Can you say deus ex machina? Between the loopy story and Harris' frequent attempts to woo the ladies with atrocious pick-up lines, I wanted this movie to end before it really even got started.

Sorry, No Skin Eating Here!.......2003-03-02

This is without a doubt, my favorite bug-eyed zombie movie! Del Tenney has done it again! If you are a shlock horror fanatic like me, you'll love this voodoo cheeselog! Plot?? Ok, a pulp fiction writer crash-lands on the beach of voodoo island. He's accompanied by his snobby friend and his annoying, bubble headed wife (who quite astonishingly survives to the end). While going through the jungle, he witnesess a decapitation at the hands of a mysterious zombie who looks like someone stapled his eyelids open.Turns out, there's a mad scientist on the island, who tried curing cancer with radiated snake venom, but ended up with an army of zombies instead. Wait, it gets better! There's a voodoo priest who uses the zombies to murder anyone who gets in his way. The hero of the film is a tough, macho, sex maniac, who smirks his way through the perils around him. I especially enjoyed his "stories by the pool", told to legions of fawning, bikini-clad fem-bots! I won't spoil this classic by giving away the ending. If you like ultra-cheese, this one's for you! Highly recommended...

Get This One On DVD.......2003-01-27

This is a great film. You can get it on DVD as the second feature on the DVD of a Something Weird Video called The Child.
Check it out!!!

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2 gore fests for the price of 1
Awful, Awful Movie.
If zombies took over, I didn't think this would be it
Bad....very, very bad. But you just can't look away.
...Rating applies to ZOMBIE 90' ONLY!!!

Zombie Doom
Starring: Steve Aquilina , Beate Brüggmann , Uwe Grüntjes , Winni Holl , and Mirco Hölling
Director: Andreas Schnaas
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Oasis of the Zombies
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Nightmare City

ASIN: B00006G8GJ
Release Date: 2002-07-30

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2 gore fests for the price of 1.......2007-06-03

this dvd of zombie doom also features another movie by the same director called zombie 90. i'm going to reveiw both.

zombie doom 5/5- zombie doom is about a cult of killers who live on an island. the basic story goes like this. 3 friends end up stranded on the island. they get killed. some asian, kung fu guys who were banished from the cult get revenge on the cult and its masters. theres also some ninjas and zombies. i wont go any deeper than that. zombie doom isnt trying to be original or oscar winning. its just an entertaining, gory action/horror film. the film really isnt as gory as its said to be. theres still plenty of gore, but its mostly decapitations and blood squirting. the special effects are pretty good for a low budget film. the zombie make up is cool and the gore scenes are over the top and graphic. there are also some ninjas which is always cool and the end scene where the asians attack the camp is filled with explosions and action. if your a fan of b movies, zombies, kung fu and gore then pick this up and enjoy.

zombie 90 4/5- zombie 90 is the bonus film on the dvd. the plot is one of the most un-original ever. a plane carrying a chemical crashes and people become zombies. this movie iosnt as good as zombie doom. its probably one of the worst films ive ever seen. the editing is BAD, the dubbing is ridiculous, like some teenager high on shrooms trying to be funny and the special effects are extremely cheap. even though the special effects are fake looking, gore hounds like me will enjoy how graphic and disgusting they look and trusat me the gore in this movie is graphic. a baby is torn to peices, theres about a dozen decapitations, tons of gut munching and even some sexual mutilation in the form of a breast being cut off and a woman being cut open at her vagina. all of these scenes feature kill bill style blood spray. the films goreiest scene is when a tour group is attacked by the living dead. the group is killed and eaten in graphic, un flinching detail and the scene lasts for like 7 minutes. while zombie 90 is gory, its also very badly made.

overall, zombie doom is a great buy. you get 2 very gory films for the price of 1. go buy it if it sounds good.

Awful, Awful Movie. .......2006-01-10

Another dollar bargain rack comedy. I would suggest getting this movie ONLY if you find it for less than a few dollars. I found it at tower records for seven bucks. Man I got ripped off. And how does something this terrible get inside a store anyways? Its only worth it to laugh your tail off at how bad this film really is. No budget, same voice on almost ALL the characters, no direction, lame pointless story, TOTALLY misleading title. I warn you, DO NOT buy this for more than a dollar or two. That really is all it is worth.

If zombies took over, I didn't think this would be it.......2005-07-01

First of all: EW!
Second of all: EW!
Third of all: The ninjas are the ONE reason this movie gets a star.
It starts out as three guys arrive on this island where a psychopathic maniac has this cultish like religion, which involves a LOT of torture and death. In his religion group thing he has this insane doctor that likes to work on brains...
Oh, have I given the plot away?
This movie has more gore in it that I've ever seen in my life. If you thought movies from the 80's were bloodiest, you were wrong.
And most of it was completely senseless and looked incredibly fake.
Zombies had THE most minor role in this movie and seriously, "Zombie Doom" was the wrong name for this movie.
Most of the music was bad, and I know, I DO soundtracks for movies. The music needs to somewhat go with the movie!
And seriously! The amount of skin showed on the psycho leader guy is scary enough!
The only thing that saved this movie from being a total waste had to be the ninjas.
But zombies and ninjas?!
Maybe if there were zombie ninjas it would have been okay.
But there weren't.
Seriously, unless you need to purposely be bored, don't waste your time.

Bad....very, very bad. But you just can't look away........2005-03-27

Ok....I won't rehash the plot. Other reviewers have already done that to death. I won't tell you how cheaply this movie was produced. I wont tell you how awful the acting was either. What I will say is this. This movie has a grain of genius rarely seen these days. I've seen plenty of movies that are so bad they're good. I happen to think that the phrase has become cliche', but its true. I've seen movies that should have been good, could have been good, but just weren't. I've seen movies that were so bad they made you violently ill. (Anything by Uwe Boll...and not because the gore was realistic but because you feel sick that you've wasted precious hours of your life watching his crap)And I've seen movies that I forget 10 minutes later. Zombie Doom is definatly not the last one...but a bizzare combination of all the rest. The story, the setting, the acting, the dubbing, and the complete lack of sense in this film contribute to the reasons not to watch it. The splatter effects are quite good though. Now here's the thing... Take any of the faults I listed in this film, on its own, and you have a reason to pass on Zombie Doom. But because of ALL these faults I think it may be your duty as a member of the human race to see this monstrousity. Inexplicable ninjas...(Played by Asian actors with no apparent martial arts or even gymnastic skills), the death of the principle characters mid way through the film, and the lack of exposition where its needed combined with the exposition you don't need. (Asian guys backstory)

I can't imagine what the filmakers were thinking when they did this. If I had to guess, I'd say they invented a bunch of fairly decent kill gags and made a movie around them.

...Rating applies to ZOMBIE 90' ONLY!!!.......2004-09-10

I'm a Schnass fan, but this (ZOMBIE DOOM :Violent Sh*t 3) sucked! He has yet to rival the greatness of Violent Sh*t 2! This rating applies soley to ZOMBIE 90", a classic by all standards, which appears on this disk as a supplement. Above all, the dubbing is a work of brilliance, masterfully done by two people, but the selection was bold and perfect. The acting, and camerawork is the stuff dreams are made of. Where did they find these lords of the silver screen?! And of course, Schnass' direction can only be rivaled by Bergman. A pure glorious cinematic achievement, shot on video. Unlike that piece of trash for losers, Casablanca. This is the real deal, people! Buy this now, or forever may God damn your soul! ZOMBIE DOOM is mediocre, unlike that ZOMBIE 90', which I plan on naming my first born after. fuc

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True Camp - Lots of Fun
Not even bad enough to be cheesy.
THIS REALLY SUCKS!!!!!
What the Hell?
DVD Buyers Beware

I Was a Zombie for the F.B.I.
Starring: Larry Raspberry , John Gillick , James Raspberry , Richard Ranta , and Richard Crowe
Director: Marius Penczner
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ASIN: B000AA4F8I
Release Date: 2005-08-30

Description

THE TRUTH CAN NOW BE TOLD! I WAS A ZOMBIE FOR THE FBI The legendary aliens and the undead vs. g-men classic is now available for the first time on DVD in this very special edition.

Hard-Boiled G-Men. Shape-Shifting Aliens. Mind-Altering Cola. America's Most Bizarre Invasion Has Begun!

In the stormy night skies over 1950s America, their diabolical plan begins: a UFO invasion that will turn the world's population into zombies using deranged escaped convicts The Brazzo Brothers, a flying alien `ZomBall,' and the secret formula to our country's favorite soft drink. Now the FBI's toughest team of agents must infiltrate the alien army, destroy its body-snatching leaders and restore good-tasting carbonated beverages to a thirsty nation. Welcome to the ultimate combination of hair-trigger crime drama, sci-fi monster thriller, and old-fashioned, red-blooded American justice: This is I WAS A ZOMBIE FOR THE FBI!

Extras: Featurette on the making of I Was A Zombie for The FBI (in color) Featurette of the creation of the Z Beast (in color) Featurette of Bringing The Sound of Zombie to life (in color) Two previously deleted scenes

Special Features: Newly re-mastered soundtrack in Dolby Surround 5.1 and original 2.0 stereo Audio commentary with director, Marius Penczner

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True Camp - Lots of Fun.......2007-07-01

Having watched this film many times on late night TV back in the 1980s and having even made a videotape of one of the broadcasts (which I still have), I was thrilled to be able to order it on DVD. I love this film!! Filmed in B&W, it was made in the 80s to mimic sci-fi movies of the 50s. If you pay attention to the film, there are lots of funny, tongue in cheek dialogue and items (background signs, etc.). I love the "jack-a-lope" trophy mounted on the CEO's office wall. In one scene, a security guard is arguing with someone on the phone, saying that if they think they can do a better job than he's doing to come on down and try it -- when the FBI agent enters the room, the guard quickly ends the phone conversation with, "Honey, I gotta go now ..." Interestingly, most of the movie crew were MSU film students who did a remarkable job on an extremely limited budget. This movie is among my favorite "campy" films, right up there with Reefer Madness, Sex Madness, Lust in the Dust, etc. And even with some of the DVD's "upgrades" and "changes" to the original film, I was not disappointed. If you love camp, you'll love this film.

Not even bad enough to be cheesy........2007-05-27

I Was a Zombie for the F. B. I. (Marius Penczner, 1982)

I get the feeling that music video director Penczner here set out to make a deliberately cheesy movie. If so, he missed the mark, while I Was a Zombie for the F.B.I. Has the requisite badness in spades, it never really maages to achieve the cheese factor that would make it a bona fide cult hit. This is kind of unfortunate, as there was great potential for cheesiness to be had here. I mean, consider: aliens invade Earth and decide to enslave the human race through developing a secret formula for soda pop. They are discovered by a pair of criminal brothers whose plane is brought down by the aliens, and the criminals have to walk a fine line between their investigation of alien activity and fleeing from the F.B.I., who are also, of course, investigating the alien activity. It sounds like something out of a Ed Wood movie. And, had it been a little more gloriously awful, it might well have been. The problem is, it never gets there; it just remains at the level of mediocre throughout. Not really worth going out of your way to find. **

THIS REALLY SUCKS!!!!!.......2006-05-05

I loved the original version from the 80s and I still have my tape from summer 1986, when this film aired on USA Nightflight (boy, do I miss that show). This new version lacks all the charm of the original and the new digital effects are completely inappropriate in a film that is supposed to be an homage to the 50s. Track down the tape from the eighties. Break this DVD in half and mail it to the director.

What the Hell?.......2006-03-16

When I was in college, I was a big fan of this movie, which was a staple of 80's late night tv. Even though I'd read all of the horrible reviews of the dvd,I planned on buying it anyway. I figured, what's a little tweaking? It was good enough for George Lucas. Folks,this is not the same movie - not even close. It's been turned into this lame "serial" with burned in video credits, a very nice orchestral score replaced by electronic nonsense that wobbles between bad techno and wannabe electronica, and added computer effects that not only adds cheese, but putrifies it. What was once an affectionate, and knowing nod to a beloved genre is now the equivalent of an old man buying a Ludacris cd - a lame attemmpt to be hip.
I bought this dvd used, and I still feel ripped off. I won't even sit it on the shelf with my other dvds. Easily the worst dvd I've ever purchased. I can't get rid of this soon enough. Do yourself a favor, and track down the original tape, and burn your own dvd.
Did I mention that this is a bad dvd?

DVD Buyers Beware.......2006-02-12

I am probably like most everyone else who will buy the DVD version of this movie. We all saw it broadcast several times on USA Network's Night Flight program back in the mid-eighties. It was a wonderful low-budget homage to 50's style monster movies with a bunch of no name actors who I haven't seen since. The only person of note was Larry Raspberry who played the second lead. He was from what I can gather something of a sensation in the music industry for a short time in the mid-sixties. I have a taped copy of the movie that I have had for more than twenty years now and still pull it out periodically.

I started out by watching the extra features that spoke about the making of the film, the stop action procedures used in the film and so forth. I was pretty excited about watching a crisp new DVD copy of this wonderful memory of mine.

Unfortunately, whom ever decided to get this released on DVD decided it needed a complete makeover. The most obvious and most annoying part of the makeover is the inclusion of a complete new soundtrack that not only adds more sound effects but also a brain pounding musical score that will drive you nuts. In the audio setup you have the choice between a version 2.0 or 5.1 soundtrack. I thought the 2.0 might be the original but no such luck. In the small documentary a sound engineer was commenting that he knows he did a good job on sound and music when the audience doesn't know he's there. He failed miserably this time.

I was seeing a whole lot of extra stock footage that I didn't remember from the eighties version. At first I thought maybe this may have just been trimmed out to reduce the film to a better time format for TV. That is until we got to the airplane crash scene. When the two agents pulled up a piece of the damaged aircraft, what should have been the dismembered hand was a new shot of a full corpse either burnt or eaten to the bone. It was obvious this is a recently shot piece and added in. There were also added cloud and fog effects that were not in the original. And I thought the view of the UFO was more of a ball of light effect instead of an obvious flying saucer. Then there were added scene cards detailing each chapter of the film.

I was very dis-satisfied with how this DVD turned out. So much so that I have decided to keep my twenty year old recorded copy of this film. I think this company should re-release the original film on DVD and send me a free copy for having wasted my money on this one. I still love this film, but not the DVD version.

Splat Pak: Zombie Doom/Zombie '90/The Possession of Nurse Sherri/Rock & Roll Frankenstein

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A waster of my $30... *sigh*

Splat Pak: Zombie Doom/Zombie '90/The Possession of Nurse Sherri/Rock & Roll Frankenstein
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Zombie Doom: Karl the Butcher (Andreas Schnaas) is back and hungry for more. Known as "The Meister" - tyrannical leader of a barbaric legion of metal- masked madmen called the "Infantry of Doom" - Karl has been biding his time for world domination. Now the notorious Dr. Senius has mastered Karl's plans of creating an army of bloodthirsty, zombified monsters, and mankind will soon tremble in fear! As these reanimated creatures are set loose to hunt down and obliterate unfortunate intruders, misfits and traitors, three shipwrecked victims must battle to stay alive - and in one piece - while avenging ninjas seek to destroy Karl and his army of mindless murderers. All shall pay in the most gruesome and unspeakable ways - especially those condemned and punished by The Meister himself. In the heinous world of Karl the Butcher, survival is not an option! Zombie '90: A military machine carrying untested lethal chemicals crashes into a forest, a dead patient comes back to life in the operation room and mutilated bodies are being found all over the country. A new epidemic has broken out, the "Extreme Pestilence". Two doctors discover the epidemic and take on the hopeless fight against the living dead. Rock & Roll Frankenstein: A greedy music agent and his mad scientist nephew build a rock 'n' roll superstar from the body parts of dead legendary rockers, but the monstrous creation revolts . . . and people must die. A vicious horror black comedy! The Possession of Nurse Sherri: An evil necromancer has just died, and his restless demon spirit possesses the body of sexy, voluptuous nurse Sherri. Transformed into a maniacal killing machine, Sherri stalks the hospital corridors, turning them blood red with terror and madness. Yet she has no recollection of her gruesome murder sprees, not even when in the arms of her lover, surgeon Peter Desmond …

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A waster of my $30... *sigh*.......2005-01-10

I can't believe I bought this. What was I thinking? What did I ever egt myself into...? A big loada horrible movies is what it was. Where can I start with the negative comments?-

The Possession of Nurse Sherri: I ahve to admit that it is a bit original of a story, in which a pyromancer is killed, and its soul is resurrected in the body of a Nurse. Blah, blah, blah... An original story, but horrible movie. Bad effects and not very good acting cap it all off. I give it a 4/10, though altogether I could only watch about 30 minutes of it (skipping and fast forwarding a lot). That mainly was spent while I was drumming and not paying attention to it. But it was still to boring to have playing on the TV.

Rock N Roll Frankenstein: the only real decent film in the bunch of 3 DVDs. It's just about a music label owner that lost his big hit star, and needs a new replacement to keep sales up. *yawn* Anyways, he goes to his nephew to try to get help. His nephew has been working with an experimental procedure to resurrect the dead using electricity (stolen from the classic Frankenstein movies) and immature embryos (not blood or something from some stupid little preteens, but baby DNA). Well to shorten things a bit more, he gets his nephew's hemp-smokin' druggie assistant and his friends to go collect body parts from dead rockstars; including the hands of Jimi Hendrix, pieces of Sid Vicious, Elvis Presley's skull (how they ever got it, I will never know), Liberace's *cough* nether region *cough* (which the filmakers probably thought was gonna make the movie funny, but didn't) and so on. When they finally get the monster assembled, he evolves into a fat, singing, rocking homosexual (because of the part he got from Liberace). Well, "King" (as they call him), goes through miscellaneous encounters with groupies, gerbils, and confusing end scenes. To end this, the company Shoc-O-Rama cinema thought they were gonna be cool and gory, but ended up making a "So Bad It's Almost Good" movie. Though they include strange things such as King questioning his identity, and stupidly "gory" scenes with gerbils. Capping this off, I give it a 6/10- cause I actually enjoyed this other than the rancid stuff Shock gave us in the other 2 (3 counting the extra Full-Length movie "Zombie 90': Extreme Pestilence" on the Zombie Doom DVD). Also, the DVD comes with some extras that show this was the highest budgetted of the 3, inlcuding 2 music videos and the making of featurette. And to add a bit more, if you're a fan of pointless cussing in dialogue, and corpse fetishes, than you'll love this!

Zombie Doom: Oh, what was I thinking trying to watch this. I heard from a horror site that they gave this a 4/10, but I'd say it aint even worthy of that. It was boring from beginning to end (the parts I watched of it), with inclusions of such random characters as ninjas, and (for no real reason) Zombies. This movie was under-titled Violent Sh*t III: Zombie Doom, so it was ment to revolve around Karl the Butcher. Not having seen the previous installments, this didn't make me even want to think about seeing the others. The basic plot is that 3 guys land on an island, and get kidnapped by Karl's "malicious" gang of cardboard clad fighters. Andreas Schnaas tried to make the guys look cool by getting them to carry machetes and fight each other, but ultimately, makes them look like complete idiots. Which, like I said, I think they actually had cardboard covering there faces, which was painted to look like metal. I want tell anymore of the movie, cause there's little I can say without spoiling it, because the basic plot makes up most of the movie. And to make you not want to see this anymore than I ever do [again], the dubbing is so horrible, it makes the movie funny-like.

Zombie 90': Extreme Pestilence: Oh, woa is me for wanting to see this movie. The stupidest and least budgeted of them all, here comes Zombie 90' falling (to bad to say flying) at ya! Watch out! Cause this movie was horrible! Where I can start, because there's so much to whine about. The dubbing was by far worse than Zombie Doom, with one man doing at elast 3 or 4 people's dubbed voice. The effects- moronic, stupid, overall sucky, don't even touch the surface of the amount they tried to make them look real enough. Though, the bad effect were enough to make you want to puke. Anyways, the first effect used in the movie was a group of doctors cutting open a dead patient's/zombie's stomach. It's easy to tell that the stomach outside was clay, and the blood was fake; and to top it, the "intestine" were easily noticeable as sausage links. The plot, was just ignorant, with a military plane crashing outside a city, and spilling radioactive stuff everwhere, making people into zombies (wow that's really new). That's all, nothing else to say about it except the boring ending dream sequence. Totally pointless. AVOID THIS AT ALL COST!!!!!!!!
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Average customer rating:

Heck of a good job!
Dont be fooled...GREAT B MOVIE!!!
Be afraid, be very afraid....
Missed opportunity!
When zombie files and radio dials conspire to dance again

Feeding the Masses
Starring: Billy Garberina , Rachael Morris , Patrick Cohen (III) , Michael Propster , and William DeCoff
Director: Richard Griffin (II)
Manufacturer: E.I. Independent
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ASIN: B0009NCQBE
Release Date: 2006-02-21

Description

Sinking its teeth into the rotting flesh of our paranoid times, Feeding the Masses is a biting social commentary and a vicious, brutal and apocalyptic zombie film directed by Richard Griffin and written by Trent Haaga (American Nightmare, Citizen Toxie IV).

In a nation dominated by mass media manipulation, rampant consumerism and a brainwashing government, a zombie epidemic known as the Lazarus Virus is bringing the recently deceased back to life. As the dead feed upon the living, Channel 5 TV News feeds its audience a false picture of the danger, death and doom that is close at hand. The station's lead anchorwoman learns of a government-mandated broadcast blackout of all walking dead news and live footage, so she enlists the help of her trusted cameraman and a demented military guard to spread the word any way they can. With the truth on their side and flesh-hungry monsters gathering in numbers and strength, the trio must warn unsuspecting citizens about the nightmare at their doorsteps…before it's too late. News at 11…

DVD CONTENTS AT-A-GLANCE:
- FEEDING THE MASSES(2005) Feature
- COMMENTARY by Director Richard Griffin and Actor Billy Garberina
- BEHIND-THE-SCENES Documentary
- SHORT FILMS "Voltagen" and "Hypostatic Union" by Duane Graves and Justin Meeks
- SHOCK-O-RAMA Trailer Vault

Customer Reviews:

Heck of a good job!.......2006-12-30

Ok, yes this is not the "BEST" zombie movie ever..but I gotta give them applause because they did something never done before. The stort line was original as much as it could be with zombies. It made me laugh, it has these commericals in the movie that are great. If your looking for scary this may not be it, but if your looking for new and fun this is a good choice. Great job all who worked on this film, take more risks!

Dont be fooled...GREAT B MOVIE!!!.......2006-03-21

This one I really enjoyed. It takes a new perspective on zombie horror, not seen before. What if zombie invasion started in a small US state...say Rhode Island? Would the individual state's government try to cover it up? I was shocked at how much thought went into such a low budget film. DONT BE FOOLED BY THE LOW RATING....THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST B MOVIES IVE SEEN. By far the best B Zombie movie out there, but only for fans of the living-dead genre. Do yourself a favor and pick this up.

Be afraid, be very afraid...........2006-03-07

I have never written a review before (and probably won't again) but I was so appalled by this waste of a perfectly good camcorder, that I had to warn others who might be sucked in by the sacrilegious "testimonial" on the box comparing this to Romero's flicks. As a zombie-phile, I'll sit through almost any zombie flick....within reason. However, I tried to sit through dog several times but never made it past the first hour. This trash smacks of being written by a couple of twelve year olds who got into their parents liquor cabinet. The "actors" appear to have been involved in dinner theater....as waiters, and the dialogue is more hackneyed than a Michael Bolton love song. The only horror here is that you'll never get back the 90 minutes of your life that you wasted watching this. The social commentary on the media is as subtle as a Doc Maarten to the groin. If you have sinned greatly and need to do penance, watch this film or if you have really sinned greatly, do what I unfortunately did and buy this film.

Missed opportunity!.......2006-02-28

This is just about the lowest budgeted movie I have ever seen. Bad acting, mostly dull dialogue and terrible sfx. The soundtrack was not too bad in comparison and it was used fairly within the context of the movie. However the message delivered by this film is very real and a serious issue in today's media controlled society. I really would like to see a serious higher budget remake of this movie and I believe that it would be a hit. Overall: MEDIOCRE!

When zombie files and radio dials conspire to dance again.......2005-12-13

I can not believe the reviews I am reading for `Feeding the Masses'. Apparently, people feel that as long as they bill themselves as fans of the `Zombie' genre, they can blast low budget films out of the water. Keep in mind the production cost of the original Dawn of the Dead was $1.5M in 1977. The cost of music for the original Night of the Living Dead was $1500, and that was 1966 dollars. While I was not able to find the production cost of `Feeding the Masses', I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it was a whole lot closer to $1500.

The point is the crew had an idea, and a very good one. If you can look past the poorly done gore and lackluster (but far from terrible) acting, `Feeding the Masses' makes for not only a very entertaining 90 minutes, but a scathing piece of social commentary. News features about the best way to cube a steak while zombies work toward ending the world punctuate what should go down as a noteworthy film.

This movie was not designed to be a horror movie per se. Not intended to scare. It was not intended to appeal to the masses. It will not make its viewer question how they made a certain special effect look so good. What it will do is make its viewer think a bit more closely about the six-o'clock news and reports that the war is being won and the economy is recovering.

I can not recommend this movie highly enough. Plenty of laughs, decent gore, a creative take on the zombie genre make it one to watch time and time again. And to the reviewers who insist on steering traffic away from movies like `Feeding the Masses', please go buy the widescreen edition of `The Fantastic Four' and review it. If everybody listened to your ideas, there would be no more zombies. Just Paris Hilton horror.

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NOT ENOUGH FOOTAGE OF THE VERY GROSS ZOMBIE
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Customer Reviews:

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Average customer rating:

barely but it deserves it's 4 stars
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barely but it deserves it's 4 stars.......2006-03-27

So most people do not know a whole lot about Billy Chong. Somebody who is more popular, though not too well known, alexander Lo rei is a good person to compare him with. he has starred in such films as shaolin vs. lama, shaolin against lama(seriously, these are different movies, and one is better than the other), and NIN