I need to see this....I love good Horror movies but I also love bad ones so I can sit there and laugh at them and make snide comments.Ok. I'm going to describe some of the worst badness in Zombie Nation. It is truly the worst thing I have ever seen (and I have seen some BAD movies in my time!).
-Ropes people in with cool cover artwork and the title implication of many Zombies. But the artwork is not related to the movie in any way at all and there are only 5 "zombies" who aren't even really zombies! (I'll get to that.)
-Main antagonist is a muscular Austrian actor who can barely speak English. He somehow is an LA cop. Seriously, I can barely understand this guy!
-Main protagonist (if there is one) plays an idiot rookie who is confused on what he should do when he suspects his partner (aforementioned marble-mouthed bad guy) of murdering women. I mean that when they pull over women his partner arrests them for no reason, takes them to a deserted warehouse, tells the rook to wait in the car, and then reappears sometime later without the women but instead is carrying a duffel bag that he tosses in the trunk of their crappy non-police car looking police car, it is ok. But only later when the same women are reported missing does this knob start to think maybe something could be wrong! Ugh. This character mysteriously disappears with no explanation at some point. I have to assume that the actor realized what a shitshow this was and just stopped showing up to the shoots?
-Sets are bad. Police station looks like a partially painted warehouse with a couple of cubicle walls and a desk. Visible spotlights are in the background at times. It seems to also double for several other locations.
-Acting is horrible. I think these poor LA wannabes became aware rather quickly what a horrible mess they were in and gave up. But even proper direction and motivation wouldn't have helped this talentless lot.
-The "zombies" of the murdered women are awoken by some gypsy priestess with a snake. Even though they are buried and submerged they are not decomposed. In fact they somehow have very clean and stylish clothes on. They also converse lucidly. The only indication that they are "zombies" (a debatable point) is a ton of eyeliner that makes them look like raccoons. Pretty much EVERY Halloween costume I have ever had since I was a little kid was better than this dreck!
-Pretty "zombies" with designer clothing and black eyes drive around in convertible. They do kill a couple of guys. Eventually these undead raccoons somehow become police officers!
-Quick flash scenes of a old dude getting spanked. It has nothing to do with the story. A baffling addition.
-Schlock director Ulli Lommel appears in a "tribute" to Marathon Man, saying "Is it safe" over and over again for no reason.
-Bad directing, bad acting, bad dialog, bad fxs, bad editing and no cinematography to speak of, music that doesn't fit the mood. Just general badness.
The only movie I have ever given a 0 out of 10! Again, I DARE anyone to watch this all the way through! I dare you!
Love Law and Order.....watching a marathon isn't unusual.
Don't like to read reviews, so only looked at the first and last and that's good enough to get added to the queue. Phillies seem to have things well in hand, just watched Dawk's HOF speech and piggybacking off his message to never settle, I think I'm good and ready to give Zombie Nation a whirl.
