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The WORST Zombie Flick? WORST?


I think not.

Maybe it's ME who is the weird one, but Nightmare City, Oasis Of The Zombies, and Zombie 4/5 are what I deem "total crap". So bad they're... bad. Unwatchable.

True, VIRUS has bad stock footage. It ripped off Dawn of the Dead (the story AND the music). It has bad voice-overs. But it's fun! It's entertaining. Awesome gore (The Eyeball Scene... yes). Awesome corpses.

It's no "Zombi II" or "Carnival Of Souls" but it's a pretty *beeping* good way to spend a boring night after working late. Yes, I like it, have seen it about 4 or 5 times, and will so again. And probably again.



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The original music score is done by the Italian pop band, Goblin, both on this and Dawn of--. So I cannot really blame on Goblin to use the same score, but I wanted to see it changed with leaving the Goblin taste in. Lucio Fulci's score man Fabio Frizzi did the same scheme on "Zombie" and "City of the Living Dead".

Speaking of Goblin, it's just my personal comment, but I thought it was funny to find "a clip of" Dawn of the Dead soundtrack in the zombie comedy, Shaun of the Dead.

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The original music score is done by the Italian pop band, Goblin, both on this and Dawn of--. So I cannot really call it "rip off", but I wanted to see it change with leaving the Goblin taste in. Lucio Fulci's score man Fabio Frizzi did the same scheme on "Zombie" and "City of the Living Dead".

Speaking of Goblin, it's just my personal comment, but I thought it was funny to find "a clip of" Dawn of the Dead soundtrack in the zombie comedy, Shaun of the Dead.

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House of the Dead.

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The Revolting Dead is possibly the worst I've seen, that or Zombie Chronicles. Both were unwatchable for me. Day of the Dead 2: Contagium is extremely bad as well. It's easier to watch a film like Virus as it has a vague nostalgic charm being so old, the ones I've mentioned were made in the 2000's and just look like they were thrown together by a couple of stoned 17 year olds with a DV Camera.

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i really like this flick. it makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.
as for the worst...well nightmare city is up there (that ending made me want to kick my tv screen in) but i've got to give that dubious distinction to Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (the whole thing made me want to kick my tv screen in). awful, just awful.

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The worst movie zombie movie ever made would might be quite a feat if you're including all the recent shot-in-the-backyard-with-Dad's-digital-camacorder-and-sold-to-suckers-on-the-internet epics of recent years. Most of those are just plain unwatchable. This, or perhaps "City of the Walking Dead" or the aforementioned "Incredibly Strange Creatures" might be called "the worst zombie movie, that is still unintentionally entertaining".

Also, don't forget about the (mostly Italian) "zombie porn" films like "Erotic Nights of the Living Dead" or "Porno Holocaust" or my personal favorite English-language title "Erotic Orgasm" (is there another kind of orgasm?). The idea of trying to combine undead zombies and flesh-eating with softcore (or sometimes hardcore) porn is every bit as ridiculous as anything in this movie.

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Not even close to the worst. Any tool that says that has not sat through Return of the Living Dead 2,4 and 5 or the *beep* Dawn of the Dead 2: Contagium or Zombie Lake (and it takes a LOT for me to pan a Euro Trash zombie movie)

Or watch Les Revenants... I dare you.

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I'd like to think that I know a lot about crap movies. Hell of the Living Dead is by all means a total crap movie. But it's the right kind of crap movie. It's totally absurd, the dubbing is amazingly bad, the wildlife footage spliced into it is hysterical, everything is a total *beep* in a good way. I totally don't understand how people who call themselves zombie movie fans can say that this movie is the worst zombie movie ever. I mean, it's got blood, guts, bad dubbing, and boobs, which to me sounds like the perfect formula for this kind of movie. I also can't see how people say that this is the worst zombie flick considering that there are movies like Zombie Lake, Oasis of the Zombies, and Alien Dead out there. Again, these are still crappy, crappy, crappy movies, and they still have that certain so-bad-it's-good kind of charm to them, but they do totally suck. Especially Oasis of the Zombies. What a turd of a movie that was. I'd also like to point out that nobody has nominated Alien Dead for worst zombie movie of all time. I don't know if too many people know about it, but if you love bad movies, then it's totally one to check out. It pretty much has no redeeming value to it at all. But it's still better then Oasis of the Zombies.

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Garden of the Dead! I thought I was the only one that saw this!

Zombie Death House is a stinker, and if Vampires vs Zombies qualify, then I absolutely loathe that movie.


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