Zombie Nightmare
Zombie Nightmare
Before ROCK ‘N’ ROLL NIGHTMARE, there was ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE! ADAM WEST (of TV’s BATMAN) joins TIA CARRERE (WAYNE’S WORLD), FRANK DIETZ (BLACK ROSES) and The Legendary Rock Warrior JOHN MIKL “THOR” (ROCK ‘N’ ROLL NIGHTMARE) in this macabre tale of voodoo and violence, terror and suspense, and revenge from beyond the grave!
Tony Washington (Thor) foils a robbery at a local grocery store only to be run over and killed by a group of savage suburban teens. But the horror has only just begun, for in the darkest recesses of Tony’s backyard, a voodoo ceremony takes place which resurrects Tony into a superhuman zombie avenger. One by one, Tony’s ruthless killers are graphically and brutally murdered as the undead Tony takes his gory revenge!
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Adam West’s finest work since he took office in the city of Quahog,
One of the horror world’s most loved creatures have have been knocked down to a new level of B with the 1986 straight to video gem known as Zombie Nightmare. Naturally this 5 star rating would be puzzling to the other reviewers since the film on it’s own must be horrendous. See we’re smart (unlike someone we know) and choose to take the guaranteed enjoyment route with our beloved Mystery Science Theater crew…assuring us a great time. Not only having the comfort of MST laughs was the highlight here though. The real story was the Super Sid Brothers getting to see Adam West as one of the films main characters. We’re guessing this was before the fact West realized he was more of a walking punchline then actual actor because he acted his life out in this one. He even took things to a new level sporting a sweet mustache catapulting himself to a DMF times 10!
Zombie Nightmare opens up with a voodoo priestess resurrecting a dead meat-head followed by the full playing of Ace of Spades by Motorhead. Yeah Yeah Fire Fire! From there we’re introduced to a car packed with street toughs led by Joey Lawrence’s cousin and Eddie Haskle’s brother…yeah that sounds like one tough crew huh? Eddie’s brothers main squeeze just happens to be a young poorly acted Tia Carrere long before Wayne Campbell met her in a little sweet shop at the edge of town. The crew winds up doing a little hit and run action giving us our main zombie of the evening. Once he’s brought back to like he exacts revenge, very laughably, snapping 2 necks and racking up a body count of 5 including the mustached Adam West.
What a beauty the MST3K version of Zombie Nightmare was. They added so much charm to the already hilarious acting, awful fight scenes, zombie murders, and all around terribly written plot. For the true Zombie fans out there this would be a complete nightmare, which is probably why they titled it what they did, but for us it was absolutely perfect. In no way does the movie have any sense of direction or purpose but delivers on all B cylinders with more then a handful of laughs. It will leave you in tears and sheer disillusion which just happens to be a perfect combo platter. It even has to be closed out the only classic way we know…yeah Drive In Totals, you got that straight!
Hilarious soundtrack
Meat head hit and run
Food throwing league infraction…with a huge fine coming
awful 7-11 fight with thug that looks like Don Mattingly after Burns made him cut his sideburns
Mom pegged in face with handful of cold angel hair pasta
Chubby guy fight and stabbing…possible Knights of the Round table shirt in big boy size
Completely out of place tennis scene 38 minutes in…very trippy
2 Zombie Neck snaps
Mullet Count of 6
DMF of 7
Detective Columbo’s brother
hot tub scene with wet tidy whitties
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|Long awaited for a DVD release – a Zombie Nightmare has come true,
Zombie Nightmare is basically about a Zombie (John Milk Thor) who gets revenge on a group of young party happy teenagers( including Tia Carrere) who run him over while going grocery shopping for his mother.
There is actually a whole lot more to this story where it includes a cop Capt. Tom Churchman (Adam West of all people) his Lt. Frank Sorrell (Frank Dietz) Molly Mokembe (Manuska Rigaud) with a past history some 20+ years earlier.
Im not going to play spoiler but the Zombie goes out to get revenge on the teenagers and some other lucky victims as well. Molly Mokembe is a voodoo woman who creates the Zombie.
What does Adam West have to do with this ? Watch it and see !
It is not too terribly gory, save for one scene and no real nudity. I would call it a PG-13 type of movie.
This movie used to play on USA pretty frequently back in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It has a great metal soundtrack (Motorhead, Fist,etc)
This movie is no classic, but it has a decent script, pretty crummy acting but the Zombie was pretty neat and Adam West brings his name value & talent to the movie.
I cant really recommend it to everyone since its not a classic, but if you liked movies such as the Gate, Night of the Creeps, Octaman, Forbidden World, Incredible Melting Man , Slithis or well, even worse or even more obscure cult films than that Id give it a try.
Yes it might be schlock to some, gold to others..
Personally speaking I love this film and is one of my guilty pleasures..
Code Red was supposed to have released this on DVD some 18 months ago & there was a long silence until a few of us started emailing them, asking them whats up with Zombie Nightmare. They replied saying it would be out by Halloween, and it is, but not from Code Red.
So now, the owner of Code Red, went to the owner of Scorpion releasing (they are brothers from what I just heard) and now Zombie Nightmare is coming out.
So far the DVD specs from what I was told is that Scorpion will be porting over the audio commentary Code Red did with John Fasano, Frank Dietz and John Mikl Thor And it will also include a featurette with all three plus director Jack Bravman.
Also it will be anamorphic widescreen..
All in all this will be a probably the one and only definitive release (unless you count the MST3K version) for Zombie Nightmare..
Finally its time to get rid of those VHS tapes of it ! The DVD is finally coming !
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|Zombie Nightmare PERSPECTIVE is the key,
This movie is all about perspective. What do I mean? Well…
as a horror movie this movie is CRAP! But as a comedy! IT ROCKS!!!!
Think about it man! The “hero” gets hit by a car and NO ONE!!! NO ONE!!! even thinks to call 911! Whats up with that? Not even his mom calls for an ambulance! SHE CALLS A VOODOO WITCHDOCTOR!!! Thanks mom! You win parent of the year!
This movie is one of the BEST B-movies I’ve seen! This is a rare gem! It proves that you can polish sh…. :>
What one should do is get a bunch of friends together and watch it MST3K style! Mock the horrible acting, editing, lack of plot, lack of anything that makes this film remotely horrific or engaging as anything other than a comedy.
Where comedies have failed (to make me laugh) this film has made me laugh so hard I cried and my gut hurt! The thwarted robbery of “Mr. Peterson” the Italian grocer had me in stitches for 15 minutes alone!
Ok…I gotta stop. I’m cracking up again! Watch the film! Laugh! Enjoy yourself!
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