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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Retard Zombies, January 8, 2008
Got this as a goof, knowing it'd be a bad movie. I wasn't dissapointed.
Found it by accident by typing "retard" in Amazon's search and this came up. Decided to check it out.
The storyline is nothing unique, and the acting is expectedly bad, but you do get to see what would happen if a group of retards were attacked by zombies. Gotta say though, some of the actors DO pull off imatating a retard, complete with drool and twitches. Haven't seen anything that good since What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
The make-up effects were okay. The zombies looked like they had oatmeal explode in their faces. But the blood splattering was pretty good.
Overall, get this movie if you know any of the actors, or if you have a demented sense of humor like me. Rent it just to say you've seen the movie. But don't expect to be scared. This one has HBO-late-night written all over it.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Film Threat Review! , October 25, 2007
SPECIAL dEaD - Review - Film Threat
By Eric Campos (10/25/2007)
[...]Probably the most offensive zombie movie ever made, "Special Dead" is bound to p*** off a lot of people while giving others cause to cheer.
As if they didn't have enough problems, the inhabitants of a camp for mentally handicapped kids, Camp Special Dude, find themselves having to deal with a zombie infestation. When the s*** and the popsicle stick art projects hit the fan, a small group of counselors and camp members fight their way through the living dead to safety.
It's a nice, simple set-up, executed with a brash display of sex, gore and disrespect for the handicapped, or anyone else for that matter...living or dead. The tone of the film is in your face rude as the camp counselors are all over-sexed meatheads with actress Amy Wade providing the most entertaining performance as one such over-sexed meathead as she lusts after fellow counselor and hero of the film - uber-tough guy and cocksman supreme Machiavelli Stone, played by Jay Brubaker. Gia Natale and Anthony Rutowicz also turn in surprisingly lovable performances as a couple of handicampers struggling to survive the zombie invasion. See? So you can have something lovable in a movie as offensive as this one and these two actors prove that by playing their characters as more than just drooling goofballs.
It's a very basic run-hide-run-scream-run-die type of flick. The danger of monotony is always an issue with these movies, but for the most part "Special Dead" avoids boring its audience by loading it up with tons of attitude, gore and dark humor. All in all, it's a fun, trashy ride not for the easily offended, and not for the squeamish, and not for the sexually timid, and...basically, if you have a stick up you're a**, "Special Dead" is not for you. If you have a good sense of humor (especially one with a helluva mean streak) and you love zombies, then heaven awaits you at Camp Special Dude.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I'M JUST LIKE YOU!, July 18, 2008
Special Dead (Thomas L. Phillips and Sean Simmons, 2006)
It's official: I'm going straight to Hell. Why? Because once I started laughing at Special Dead, which took about thirty seconds, I just couldn't stop. Yes, I know it's wrong of me, and I know it's brutally hard-hearted, and all those other wonderful things. But let's face it, political correctness aside, Special Dead is just about the funniest horror spoof I've seen since Return of the Living Dead.
Camp Special Dude is, as one might suspect from the name, a dude ranch for the mentally challenged. Due to a mixup, a prisoner, Eriq Eldorado (Jah Shams), has gotten shipped there by accident. But hey, it's better than jail, right? Only problem is, zombies are rising from the dead to attack campers and counselors alike. Eriq, head counselor Mac (Jason Brubaker), and Mac's sister Dale (Gia Franzia), one of the campers, head up a band of the living trying to survive a journey back to civilization.
Yes, this is a basement-budget, badly-made film that's about as politically incorrect as they come, but it's hysterical from front to back. I case I haven't alluded to it enough, I'll say it again: if you are easily offended, this is not the movie for you. But if you're willing to ride it out, under the surface humor there's a surprisingly tender human drama to be found here, and for all the film's offensiveness, the differently-abled are portrayed here in no different a light than folks in most other horror films of this stripe; they can deliver snappy one-liners just as well as anyone else can, and they do. The scriptwriter uses both the challenges and strengths of his challenged characters well, and they end up being just as well-drawn (if not more so) than the rest of the cast. Sure, there are a few plot holes here and there and some stupidity that exists solely for the sake of its comedic value, but as with most comedy, the important thing is that it works, and it does here.
The more I think about this movie, the more impressed I am with it. A comedy with heart, even if it never fails to rip that heart out of a chest whenever it can. *** ½
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