A friend of mine lent me this on DVD but before I watched it, being the collector that I am, I decided instead to fork out £7 and buy my own copy. Big mistake! I only hope that part 2 is better because I bought that at the same time, though for half the price of the original. What we have here is an incredibly amateur, shot on video zombie flick with some female vampires, a masked Mexican wrestler & some very unsexy sex scenes thrown in. The lighting & sound is very poor, the plot is just yet another weak story about a military experiment going wrong. The British DVD cover states it is the uncut version, and yes there is plenty of (cheap) gore but nothing compared to many other zombie movies, so don't been lured in by that. Probably my favourite scene came near the end when the dead rise out of the ground, something lacking in many zombie movies.

First of all you will laugh. I don't think the movie is meant to be funny but it's so awful that you can't keep yourself from laughing.Suddenly people start eating each other in the streets. Of course no one can understand what's going on. And we meet our crew.. A swat team of only 3 members, 2 stupid former employees of the company which caused all the "zombie thing", 3 self-proclaimed female vampires, 1 Mexican wrestler who is allegedly "The Devil" himself, and 3 or 4 zombies (One of the zombies is the director himself). You will see the same zombies throughout the whole movie. Even the ones that have already been killed.My favorite character was El Diablo. His sound was edited later on. So I guess the director told him to move a bit and pretend that he's speaking. But he's so overacting that he looks like a mad, mute guy who's trying to tell something big he has just seen, but can't. (these scenes are the funniest ones) Vampires were as funny as El Diablo. It's so obvious that the fake vampire teeth are uncomfortable to wear and speak at the same time so they're always trying to fit the teeth better. And they have laser guns!! And they are fat!! And they are lesbians!! Cool, eh? Too many unnecessary breast and sex scenes, amateur actors (most probably the friends of the director), exaggerated sound editing in the "eating" scenes, ridiculous story, boring conversations..BUT, it's worth watching, to see how ridiculous a movie can be.Cheers.

Shot on video, Meat Market is a living dead offering that goes further with a miniscule budget than most studio offerings can even scratch at. Not to say Meat Market doesn't have its weaknesses, mostly budgetary and first time actors, but it's better than many offerings we've seen in the living dead genre since the 90's. The film could have improved with tightening up of the script, the exclusion of the vampires armed with laser weaponry could have been dropped to make the film more in line with survival horror rather than camp. Played as camp Meat Market is an excellent independent film, if it had been tightened into a straight story it could have been even better. As an independent horror film it excels over other studio jobs namely Resident Evil, House of the Dead, and The Dead Hate the Living! (the latter being slightly indie but weaker than water) and is crafted by director with an eye on horror.

I got my hands on a copy of this film a little while back. I knew it wasn't going to be a big budget blockbuster. I also knew it would not come close to Dawn of the Dead, or even Return of the Living Dead for that matter. it's shot on video, and looks for the most part, like s**t. But, put that behind you and let the good times roll. There are many scenes that pay homage to the classics. It is like a mix of Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil(the game), and Zombie 3. The main characters are two mercenaries trying to stave off the zombies who are quickly taking over. In their adventures they come across many unique and unusual characters. Including three lesbian vampires. That's right, lesbian vampires. They tote laser weapons and have sex a bunch of times. Their is also the hillarious El Diablo Azul. he's a dubbed Mexican luchadore. He takes every chance he has to use his wresting techniques on the undead. He accounts for several very funny moments within this film. There is also a wounded soldier who does absolutely nothing of note. There is also a scientist who tries to explain that the zombies are cyborg, but that never comes up again so just forget it. the zombies for the most part, look decent. For a low budget film, it's a motherf*cking masterpiece(excuse my language). If this were big budget, it would be the best zombie movie ever. It would be perfect, if it wasn't for the cop-out ending. The ending feels like they ran out of money. I wish i could meet the people who made this film, just so i could shake their hands. They made a terrific movie, that i plan on purchasing very soon. Now i'm just waiting for the sequel to come out, it should be interesting..............