This film is terrible. As a matter of fact it's so terrible that you absolutely must watch it! This will have you laughing for the duration of the movie, though it is not supposed to be funny. But I guess that's part of what makes you laugh so hard. The "acting" is almost non-existent and the dialogue delivered without any real conviction. Some of the lines are just the corniest things you will ever hear. The main antagonist, zombie "king" Abbott Hayes, walks like a 70's pimp daddy and mutters guttural sounds and half-hearted shrieks as he comically wiggles his tongue. One may come to the conclusion that the actor portraying him is "special", which may be the case, since this whole "film" could be considered "special". But if that's the case, I guess it would be rude to laugh and point...screw it!! That's all you can do with this movie. It is horrible, but WELL worth watching. Be sure to watch, just don't expect it to be good, expect it to be "good".

Lame-brained zombie film, with film-making duties by various participants of "Night of the Living Dead". This particular flick concerns teenagers who died in a vehicle crash over a cliff thanks to a zombie, Abbott Hayes(A Barrett Worland), who wasn't killed in a small town extermination. Hayes resurrects their corpses by biting them, and as a group they pursue live human victims as a major car dealership development is underway. The film centers of the blossoming relationship between Matthew Michaels(Damien Luvara), whose father is the head honcho behind the dealership, and Laurie Danesi(Jamie McCoy),the small town waitress. Sheriff Randolph(Marty Schiff)is in cahoots with the developers in pulling up the caskets and headstones from a cemetery burying the loved ones in a mass grave to save money. Abbott Hayes will lead his zombie troops on a raid on the diner as Michael, Laurie & Randolph hole up awaiting help from the development workers.I think many might wish to check this one out for the opening fifteen or so minutes where make-up effects legend Tom Savini goes bad ass as a survivalist town deputy who takes out zombies singlehanded. The opening of the film resembles the close of "Night of the Living Dead" as townspeople work as an organized hunting party eradicating the walking dead with guns and rifles. Once Abbott Hayes is introduced(..first looking like a corpse, and when the film moves fourteen years later, resembles a monstrous ghoul)the film sours immediately. The screenplay is uninvolving never remaining focused with the film becoming an uneven and tedious exercise where boredom sets in like gangrene rotting away the viewer's patience..well, that's what this film felt like to me, gangrene rotting away my patience. I kept hoping that something would come from this film, but when you have dialogue this putrid with a cast equally as painful, there's no hope at all. I am not sure this will even work for the most enthusiastic zombie fan. The final showdown at the end has workers, with plenty of weapons and ammunition toiling with the zombies in hand-to-hand combat! While the fighting occurs, Abbott Hayes is shown delighting as the carnage ensues. Hayes seems to be merely in the film to wickedly grin as his minions attack pea-brained human clowns. What a travesty. Actor Bill Hinzman tries to put some energy into the photography, but that shot in the arm can do little to inject life into a film where quality whithers minute to minute. This film would've done better to follow Savini throughout the film wasting zombies rather than focus on a car dealership development and the dull relations of a would-be couple.Savini and some minor moments of zombie gore lift this to 2 stars instead of 1.

Children of the Living Dead (2001) BOMB (out of 4) The film starts off in the late 80s when a serial killer comes back from the dead during a zombie outbreak. The zombies are eventually killed off but flash forward fourteen years and the cemetery is about to be turned into a mall so the serial killer zombie comes back with some of his "children". John Russo produced this film and it's yet another attempt at him to milk his Night of the Living Dead for all its worth. He acted in and produced that film but his career and his partner Romero's career have certainly gone down different paths. This film here contains some of the worst zombie attacks I've ever seen and even the zombies themselves are quite bland and boring. The acting is beyond bad to the point where I was really wanting to claw my eyes out. The legendary Tom Savini appears at the start of the film and he's the only worthy thing going on here so it's a shame he gets so little screen time. The story itself is beyond stupid and at times doesn't make any sense at all but I guess you should expect that from this type of film.

This film is absolutely terrible! I have a great affection for zombie films, but this one was a real stinker, it's only real value is as an example of terrible writing and acting. The plot isn't clearly thought or carried out,and the actors are rather wooden. I think the best part of the whole film is actually the five minutes or so at the beginning of the film, where Tom Savini does a small role and is then quickly killed by the main zombie.It's really unclear here just how Abbot came to be a zombie and why it takes so long for his zombie army to unite for the final battle at the end of the film. I was able to laugh my way through half the film, but after a while losing track of the drifting storyline and tiring of it's lack of quick momentum I grew bored of even that.