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Zombie Nightmare

1986, Movie, R, 89 mins

Zombie Nightmare: Review

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One of those rare films whose title is the review. Originally planned for theatrical release by Filmworld Distributors but sent straight-to-video in 1987, this sludgy and ineptly shot horror feature reached its widest audience as the object of scorn on TV's Mystery Science Theater 3000. In flashback, a young boy sees his father (filmmaker John Fasano) try to break up an assault on a young black woman; instead, dad is killed by a pair of juvenile delinquents. The boy grows up into long-haired, muscle-bound good-guy Tony Washington (Jon Mikl Thor, frontman of the heavy-metal band Thor), who is himself run over and killed by five obnoxious, joyriding party-teens in clashing New Wave clothes. The particularly obnoxious driver, Jim (Shawn Levy), finds he gets off on killing; his cohorts Bob (Allan Fisher), Peter (Hamish McEwan), Susie (Manon E. Turbide) and Amy (Tia Carrere) are a little more freaked, but, like, so what, nobody saw them. They weren't counting on Tony's mother (Francesca Bonacorsa) having local Canadian voodoo priestess Molly Mokembe (Manuska Rigaud) bring her son back from the dead as a vengeful zombie. Idealistic young detective Frank Sorrell (Frank Dietz) investigates the string of murders that ensues. He gets suspiciously little help from Captain Churchman (one-time Batman star Adam West, at the nadir of his career), who, along with his thuggish pal Fred (James Rae) and Mokebe have a connection to Tony Washington's past. Strolling occasionally through this muddle is longtime Montreal DJ and occasional character actor Dean Hagopian, playing a medical examiner with a ridiculous, sub-Jack Nicholson nasal growl. Thor co-produced the score and co-wrote the film's incidental music; metal-band aficionados will want to know that the soundtrack's songs are by Battalion, Death Mask, Fist, Girlschool, Knighthawk, Motorhead, Pantera, The Things, Thor and Virgin Steel. Copyrighted 1986 by Gold-Gems Ltd. and shot in the city of Ste. Anne de Vellevue, this moronic dreck was the second and last film directed by 60-year-old Jack Bravman, a co-producer of the notorious 1976 hoax film Snuff, who was old enough to know better. leave a comment --Frank Lovece
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