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Nudist Colony of the Dead [VHS]

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A must see! No wonder this flick got an honorable mention at Sundance

'Nudist Colony of the Dead' is one of the funniest low-budget movies I've seen that was intended to be funny. Solidly in the B-movie range, it nonetheless features a number of A-list laughs!

The film is at once a parody of slasher-movies, zombie movies, musicals, and preachy After School Special-type programmes. It opens with one of the funniest courtroom scenes I've seen... the final battle between a group of nudists and a group of Christians who want their nudist colony shut down. The nudists lose the battle... and rather than put on clothes and move elsewhere they choose to commit ritual suicide. Years later, the Christians have turned the camp into a Bible retreat for troubled youth, but "accidents" keep happening there, as the dead nudists rise to take gory revenge with each visit. And all the killing and maiming is framed by pithy little songs! The "twist-ending" required from this kind of horror film is also pretty cute, all things considered.

There isn't any particularly noteworthy singing or acting talent on display by any of the performers in the film, but the lyrics are so hilarious that it doesn't really matter. (The theme song is dippy but still very funny and it sets the tone for the film that follows.) Some of the zombie antics are also pretty darn funny, such as the scene where they kill a girl by pouring cement down her throat... after putting ear muffs on her sleeping companion so as to not wake her. However, there are some pacing problems--the film sags in the middle (nearly as bad as those on the crusty old nudist who casts the curse that causes the deceased to rise), and they're bad enough to make me knock off a Star.

All in all, a worthwhile film, but somewhat lacking. If you're not seeing anything else that interests you and you believe you have a bizarre sense of humour, check this film out.

The church wins a judge's ruling over the nudists on how the land will be used in the future.They are nude before the judge.The nudists make a pact to haunt the land and commit suicide.47 coincidental deaths happen on the land in the following years.A van load of church goers come to camp out and to discover God.The singing dancing dead nudists refuse to have their land occupied by others.They rise from the grave to add to the 47.The crew sings their plan for survival.The very naive church goers who came to camp out soon lay in pieces all over the place. If you liked THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW this is along the same lines, One to watch inebriated with friends. I found it quite amusing.

If your looking for a fun "B" movie this is it! Loads of laughs a few breasts and a fun musical score! "B" fans will love it!

Nudist Colony of the Dead (Mark Pirro, 1991)

In my rulebook for movies, it says "you can't go wrong with a movie called Nudist Colony of the Dead". Yes, it does. Right there, scribbled in the margin of page 3,557. Not surprisingly, the rulebook is right. While this is an amateur production at best, with awful acting, fumbling direction, inconsistent sound and lighting, and every other defect you'd expect a no-budget piece of junk like this to have, I'm not sure it's possible to screw up a premise like this badly enough to make it entirely unwatchable. Simply by its very nature, it's going to be a hoot.

In the opening scene, a judge orders the Sunny Buttocks nudist colony closed down. While most of the members leave, a central group of hardcore nudists decided to drink the Kool-Aid(TM) in protest. (Yes, it's purple.) Fast forward ten years, and the head of the church who were behind the effort to get the place closed down is now using the land as a place to hold retreats for troubled teens. Problem is, the dead rest uneasy, and are apt to pop up whenever evangelicals come round-- though whether they intend to eat the victims or just subject them to bad song and dance is never certain. Because yes, Nudist Colony of the Dead is, among the many other things it is, a musical.

Many of the film's funniest scenes come from Pirro (who also wrote the script) skewering musical conventions here, and the songs themselves are witty, and clever in a way (if you have a really twisted sense of humor, anyway). The jokes are awful through and through, and very politically incorrect in a way few people would dare to do now, but as long as you're not easily offended by, say, redneck jokes, there's a good deal of fun to be had with this flick. Don't go into it expecting Orson Welles, of course. ***

If you're looking for tons of skin and gore, you shouldn't have any problem in your journey and I wish you well. Peace be to ye. If you're looking for bad 80's rap, bad 80's synth music, jr high humor, blatant but not too harsh stereotypes, if you ever wanted to know what kind of things the people who made ABC After School Specials worked on after they snapped...why not? You should be able to find a few clips on youtube to give you an idea.

Again, not much skin or gore in this. I've seen it listed as 'grindhouse.' Not true. Strictly Comedy/Musical with small amounts of skin and blood done in attempts at humor.

It was torture to watch this movie.The cast and crew deserve congratulations for doing a lot with very little,but the result is not so bad that its good-it is simply bad.The charectors are all maddening-I've never been so happy to see people die.The songs are better than you'd expect but they can't save this.There's a galaxy of difference between an unintentially bad movie like "Glen or Glenda" and a calculated,deliberately awful movie like this.Luckily for Amazon I'm too embarrassed about buying this tape to demand my money back.

well i went to the video shop and didn't know what else to get,so i decided to get this out,when i watched it i full on laughed,neally peed my pants......kiddin,check this movie out.

As a good aficionado to horror movies, I bought this movie since the title called my attention. It was a real torture to watch it. Movie is an art and this film is simply disgusting, vulgar, confectioned with a particularly refined bad taste, a waste of time and money.

One of my friends brought this video over and we had a ball watching it! It's such a great movie... the songs are great as well as the production I'd reccomend it to anyone