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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Good concept, poorly executed.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This film has one of those misleading titles, kind of like the Italian film Zombie Holocaust. Both titles lead one to assume that there is going to be hordes of the living dead terrorizing a community or something and generally doing zombie stuff. In that film, you got very few zombies and they didn't really do anything much. In this one, you get like one or two zombies, but at least they do some terrorizing. However, this comes in the form of revenge rather than the living dead wanting to feast upon the flesh of the living. I saw this film on Mystery Science Theater 3000, but I am sure it has probably made the rounds on cable stations back in the day. One of those films that have one or two actors of note and a really cheap budget that mostly went to the one or two actors.The story has a man killed while protecting a young girl from two hoodlums. Flash years later and the son of that man is playing baseball and doing okay. Unfortunately, after stopping a robbery he is ran over by a gang of preppy teens that really know how to break the rules! Well, the mother has already lost her husband so she is understandably upset now that her son too, has passed away. She gets the woman that her husband helped so long ago and is a voodoo priestess to resurrect her son so that he may get his revenge on his killers! Meanwhile, a young cop struggles with the case of the teens being killed while his captain seems to know more than he is letting on! This made for a rather funny episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. When this episode first appeared, Adam West, who was in the movie, actually hosted a marathon of MST3K episodes that led up to the premier of this film on Comedy Central. Back in the day, MST3K literally put Comedy Central on the map and they used the show often to keep its viewership, kind of makes no sense that they canned it. The episode though was funny, my favorite joke being when the bat wielding zombie was chasing the blond and Servo goes, "George Romero's, Casey's at bat!" So, in the end a bad film that was notable because of Adam West's appearance and I guess Tia Carrere. Though she was kind of famous mainly because Michael Myer's was apparently obsessed with her. She was not really all that good at acting, your basic horror level talent and she was an absolutely dreadful singer. She probably would have done good in adult films though. The zombie effects, what little there were, were done okay as they did manage a good effect at the end with the zombie melting. And despite what Mike and the bots thought, Motorhead's Ace of Spades is an awesome song and one hell of a way to kick off a movie. It was my favorite part!

When "Tony Washington" (Jon Mikl Thor) is accidentally killed in an auto accident his mother goes to a voodoo priestess named "Molly Mokembe" (Manuska Rigaud) to avenge his death. Molly turns Tony into a zombie and he is given a mission to kill the five teenagers who were joy-riding in the car that night. So much for the plot. Now, initially I figured that with Adam West (as "Captain Tom Churchman") and Tia Carrere ("Amy") in this movie that they would lend some credibility to this picture. And while they did okay, the rest of the cast was awful. Additionally, the action scenes were terrible, the sets looked cheap and the special effects were just plain silly. Likewise, the music of "Motorhead" and the other bands featured in the soundtrack wasn't good enough to radically improve this film either. In short, this film is pretty bad. That said, I have rated it accordingly. Definitely below average.

And here we have yet another eighties 'zombie' movie, which despite a title that brings to mind illusions of Lucio Fulci-type walking-dead mayhem, it owes a damn site more to slasher flicks such as Friday the 13th and The Prowler et al. Inexplicably, there was a high number of horror attempts during the eighties that incorporated the living dead into their titles, but cinematically delivered stalk and slash plot lines that were prominent since Halloween categorised the genre. Fulci's House by the cemetery was a prime example of a slasher film cloaked under the guise of a Romero style zombie-thon, whilst Zombie Island Massacre, The Dead Pitt and Ruben Galindo's Cementerio del Terror and Ladrones De Tumbas all mixed re-animated corpses with the plot trappings of the slasher craze that swept the eighties.It opens on a high school baseball field sometime during the 1960s. An amicable coach named Bill Washington is watched playing catch with some youngsters by his wife and son. Also in the stands are a Haitian school girl and two troublesome youngsters who let their intentions be known by plotting a nasty surprise for the African spectator. As the young family head home across the streets of the idyllic neighbourhood, they come across the two hoodlums from earlier attempting to rape the passive Haitian. Bill Washington immediately intervenes, much to his downfall, because whilst his back is turned he is stabbed in the chest by one of the rampant thugs. The screen fades with a shot of the young boy watching his father struggle for life on the cold concrete sidewalk.Fast forward twenty years and Tony Washington - the child from the prologue - has grown into a helpful and polite young man. Whilst out shopping for his mum's groceries, he underlines his impressive community status by courageously battering two armed thugs that were attempting to rob the local shop keeper. Things takes a turn for the worse for the vigilante, when he is savagely run down and killed by a gang of drunken teenagers in a scene that pre-dates I know what you did last Summer by at least twelve years. The gang of drunkards speed off into the night, showing no remorse for their victim. Despite being visually devastated, Tony's mum decides not to inform the police of the murder and instead she calls upon the favour owed by the Haitian from the pre-credits sequence. Somewhat fortunately (albeit stereotypically) Molly Mokembe is now a voodoo priestess and so with a dust of black magic, Tony Washington rises from the dead to avenge his ruthless murder....If you were looking for a possible pre-cursor to Kevin Williamson's I know what you did last summer, then look no further than this inexcusably poor mid-eighties entry to the slasher cycle. The plot is familiar to each and all, as the victim of a horrendous accident returns to avenge his death, systematically slaughtering the culprits one by one in gruesome fashion. Although the film never reaches the heights of slasher-classic status, it does boast a few credible benefits that lift it from the irreversible depths of movie obscurity. The soundtrack is awesomely impressive, with songs provided by Motorhead, Girlschool and Thor and I must admit that I was pleasantly shocked as 'The Ace of Spades' confidently adorned the credit sequence. As is the case with so many eighties slasher entries, Zombie Nightmare plays host to one young and fresh-faced 'soon to be superstar'. Yep, you don't need to clean those spectacles; that chubby faced youngster unconvincingly warbling is none other than Tia Carrera, most memorable for her characteristic performances in Wayne's World and True Lies.Unfortunately, it seems the budget spent on the soundtrack pretty much drained the finances from the rest of the feature, because Zombie Nightmare seems to take an unprecedented slope into mediocrity very quickly. Despite an excellent debut performance from Frank Dietz as the protagonist, the dramatics are really scraping along the lines of putrid slop. Watch out for the hilarious Manuska Rigaud, who seems to believe that 'acting' amounts to squawking her voice like she's constantly suffering from an epileptic fit. Zombie Nightmare is famous for thrash legend Jon Mikl Thor's lengthy cameo in the opening half of the film. Despite proving that rock stars certainly shouldn't walk the path to Hollywood, he also manages to pull off the admirable feat of adjusting his body shape and height unrecognisably post death!There's no gore or suspense worth mentioning and the whole feature is weakly directed to the excess of point and shoot mediocrity. Originality is a wayward concept in the eyes of Jack Bravman, so basically, what you see is what you get - and you get very little. Zombie Nightmare is far from being the worst slasher movie released during the peak period, but I really could only find very little to recommend. The hulking lone killer proves that this is pure slasher trash and those searching for a dose of zombie gore will be thoroughly disappointed

After writing back-to-back negative reviews for Werewolf (1996) and Track of the Moon Beast (1976), I almost hate to make it three in a row with Zombie Nightmare. I've thought about raising one of the ratings because I really hate to seem so negative. But if you've seen this trifecta of cinematic crap, you'll understand that I really have no choice. Zombie Nightmare deserves the 1/10 – just like Werewolf and Track of the Moon Beast. It's pretty much bad in every way a movie can be. It's got it all – bad acting, poor special effects, ridiculous plot, weak technical aspects, and unlikable characters. I've used this expression several times recently, but Gawd awful also applies to Zombie Nightmare.Actually, I do have one positive thing to write about the movie. Somehow, the makers of this garbage were able to secure the rights to (or possibly just had the good sense to use) Motörhead's "Ace of Spades" for the opening credits. Lemmy rocks!