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I Was a Teenage Zombie

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This movie empitomizes cheezy horror! Mooselini's character was hilarious. Nothing beats the heads flying! 2 points for this movie!! It's right up there next to Return to Horror High. Anyone who was a teenager should buy this movie NOW!

This movie looks like it was filmed with a camcorder! I didn't realize, when I purchased this DVD, that it was going to be a total amateurish delight! I mean the editing is even horrible, the sound doesn't match up! The acting is atrocious! The storyline is pathetic! I LOVE IT! There's a scene where the Hispanic, zombie, drug-dealer rapes a hapless teenage girl to death! He breaks her body in half and all she says is "You can't do thaaaaaaaaaat!" In another hilarious scene a cop, who is hot on the trial of the zombie drug peddler, gets punched in the forehead and sort of has a 2 second delayed reaction to the pain. Then he falls backward and screams like a dying duck! Oh, I'm telling you buy this movie! If you love watching horrible actors not totally devoted to their parts, this one is for you!

I Was a Teenage Zombie is a really funny spoof of those 1950s monster films and zombie films. A drug dealer is accidentally killed by teens and then the teens throw him in the river where a nuclear liquid brings him back as a zombie and then he starts revenge. The video release is poor because the movie skips a lot even if you clean the VCR. Please release this one on a new DVD with special features(Commentaries,deleted scenes) because the VHS/DVD versions are horrendous. This one deserves a Special Edition DVD for fans of this spoof.

I was young reckless and in love, then I was dead, young reckless and in love-I was a teenage Zombie. The film has a killer new wave soundtrack but it wasn't filmed that well or recorded that well but actually is pretty funny if you let it. As hard as it is to believe the film was distributed by Janus Films who have the Criterion Collection. Unfortunately the soundtrack album is out of print.

I was a teenage zombie...when i purchased this movie i didn't know what to expect...I was EXTREMELY IMPRESSED, the movie is funny and it has mild gore (due to image entertainment's editing crew). I would highly recommend buying this movie if you have some extra cash, if u like movies like Evil Dead 2, Bad Taste, or Evil Ed this is definatly one to put in your collection. Anyways to let you know all horror films i've bought that image entertainment has released has cut out a lot of the gore scenes. I probably would next expect to see this movie re-released by a different company due to lack of popularity and peoples lack of humor.

There are valuable lessons to be learned here, all you wannabe future hollywood directors/writers:
The dumb blonde girl who is always walking into trees- a must. Students who can carry on a five minute conversation during class without the teacher realizing- you know it.
The fact that one of the characters has glasses on in one shot, and then from the other camera angle, the glasses are missing- hilarious.
heads flying off- gotta have it.
actors straight out of some high school film club- smart move.

The point is, these movies make us laugh and cost a bare minimal to the producers/investors. Keep em coming, I hope that this review will inspire future directors who are considering tackeling the horror field. My advice, forget the Scream and Final Destination glossy [stuff], and bring back the cheese!

THE YEAR IS 2006 AND IT'S TURNING 18-OLD-YEARS THIS YEAR SINCE IT WAS MADE IN 1987 AND IT DESERVES TO BE RE-RELEASED ON DVD WITH TONS OF SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDING COMMENTARIES(ESP.A DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY SINCE HE QUIT DIRECTING AND BECAME A MONK AFTERWARDS),DELETED SCENES,INTERVIEWS WITH MAINLY EVERY SINGLE ACTOR THAT APPEARED IN THE MOVIE,TRAILERS,MAKING OF FEATURETTE,AND TONS OF OTHER GREAT STUFF. THE MOVIE IS AN ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC INDIE FLICK THAT WAS VERY FUNNY AND MADE THE WAY IT WANTED IT TO BE MADE,EVEN IF THE BUDGET WAS LOW AND THE ACTING STUNK. PLEASE CRITERION,ANCHOR BAY,OR SYNAPSE RELEASE A GOOD DVD OF THIS CLASSIC MOVIE. ITS ONE OF MY FAVORITES AND I WATCHED AND RECORDED IT EVERYTIME IT WAS ON IFC AND RENTED IT AT SOME VIDEO STORE.

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DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THE BUDGET WAS FOR THIS MOVIE AND WHERE IT WAS FILMED,I THINK IT WAS FILMED IN SAN FRANCISCO OR HOUSTON.

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IS THERE A WAY WE CAN RE-RELEASE THE OLD CD OR CASSETTE OF THE SONGS IN THE MOVIE. I LOVED THE SONGS IN THIS FILM AND IT WOULD BE COOL TO HEAR THEM AGAIN. MY FAVORITE SONG WAS THE ONE SUNG BY THE FLESHTONES THAT WENT "I WAS A TEENAGE ZOMBIE".

The minute this movie starts with a long shot of a lake and the hilariously bad rockabilly/swingin' song "I Was a Teenage Zombie" (by the Fleshtones), you know you're in for a treat. There is a Mexican pimp selling some bad weed, and he is just amazing. In one scene, he rips a guy's face off and says, "Yeah, I'm the weedman! I got some WEED!" I was rolling on the floor laughing. One of the characters changes into a baseball uniform JUST to hit another character in the head with a baseball bat and then changes back in the next shot. It's all very humorous. I'm guessing the people who gave this a bad rating were expecting a Fulci classic or something.

I was a Teenage Zombie is a humorous, extremely low budget 80s horror comedy film. Don't expect amazing cinematography or oscar winning acting but do expect a good time. The actors and crew did the best with the money they had and all in all they made a enjoyable little film. It plays like a dopey 80s comedy mixed with a spoof of horror films from the 50s and 60s (with buckets of low budget gory special effects). The pricetag may be a bit expensive for this DVD but in my opinion its worth it. The quality of the picture on the DVD is a bit better than the VHS but it still could use another DVD release with some special features, and better picture quality.

If youre a fan of troma movies, mystery science theater, or cheesy low budget horror give this flick a watch, its good stuff.

I remember the first time I saw this when I was little I thought it was a good movie but of course I always loved those cheesy horror flicks and my mom would get so mad at me for watching it cause of some sexual activity going on and she thought I was too young for that.
So for years and years I never got to watch it again til it came on t.v. one night and I watched it and relived alot of good memories from watching it before and this time I didn't watch it around my mom and even though I am old enough to watch stuff like that she still gets a bit upset with me.