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Zombie Nation

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Zombie Nation: A literal description of the movie:

A renegade cop is targeting young women under the auspice of routine traffic stops; the women are then abducted by the cop and taken to a furniture warehouse. Once the women are handcuffed in the warehouse loft, the renegade cop performs the following steps:

(A) He checks their teeth with a miniature flashlight.

(B) He injects their buttocks with an unknown but presumably lethal substance.

(C) He watches some television.

(D) He tosses the women into an extra-wide shopping cart and conveys them to a queen-sized bed.

(E) He jots down the names of the women in a small notebook.

(F) He crams the women into giant-sized duffle bags, and transports them to diverse places of interment.

Eventually, a group of Voodoo women are shown performing an arcane ceremony over the sprawled body of a blonde girl in fishnet stockings. Voodoo Ritual Ingredients: (1) snake, (1) tarantula, (1) bleeding pig's head, and (1) set of preserved shark's jaws.

The girl in the fishnets is shortly thereafter kidnapped by the renegade cop, subjected to the aforementioned steps (A) through (F), and then buried at sea. However, thanks to the Voodoo Ritual, the girl in the fishnets returns from the dead; unexplainably all of the other non-Voodoo-treated women are resurrected as well. The undead status of the she-zombies is solely indicated by the black spray paint around their eyes, which causes them to look more like raccoons than zombies. (The she-zombies are shown to be mildly decayed in their mirror images; according to the Voodoo women, the she-zombies' physical appearance is based on their own perception, and since they apparently perceive themselves as raccoons rather than she-zombies, their default appearance is non-decayed.) The she-zombies emasculate and de-tongue a couple of male victims before working their way to the renegade cop. Cut and print!

Congratulations! You have just survived a summary of the plot of this movie. You have approximately 17 seconds before you begin to vomit and your head explodes.

There are lots of zombie movies out there, some of which are poorly directed, some are poorly written, some are poorly acted. Not only is this movie all those, it isn't one movie at all. Two or three separate movies are hacked together with all the grace of a blind surgeon to create what is not only the worst Zombie movie I have ever seen, but one of the worst movies I've ever watched period.

In a normal review, this is when I list the positive and negatives of the movie, but I'm trying my hardest to erase from my mind that I spend an hour and a half of my life on this junk. Honestly, it's too bad to be even campy. The zombies are just chicks with bad eye make-up and how they're created makes no sense (unfortunately, I tried). The plot, if you can call it that, is so disjointed and so many plot threads are left dangling it defies the imagination how anyone would want their name associated with it.

Look, I love campy horror movies, but there is campy and then there is unfinished and poorly made. This is the later. Don't judge a movie by the cover (the cover IS cool) and run far away. Get something else! Anything else! But don't waste your time or money on this D rate film school project.

I've ben watching horror movies for over 30 years. I've seen lots of "b" movies and indie movies that were shot on video. Some of these movies have been very good, others not so. I have to say that in all those years this might be the worst movie of them all, it's so bad I don't know where to start. How about the cover art, pretty creepy right? Looks scary? Guess what, there is nothing in the movie that even remotely resembles the front and back cover art. The story could have made a good movie in the right hands, but obviously, this was not the case. The "acting" sucks, the "directing" sucks, and the make up is a joke, and a bad joke at that. If you think "zombies" with racoon style make-up is scary, than you might actually like this movie. Whoever produced this mess should be ashamed of themselves. Stay far, far away from this movie, if you buy it you'll regret it, don't say I didn't warn you. I can't wait untill people associated with this movie start giveing this slop five star reviews, that will be the highest of unintentional comedy.

Zombie Nation is complete trash. The cover art for the movie is totally false advertisement. The movie had so much potential yet it failed miserably in every aspect possibly imaginable. The storyline, the acting, the make up, everything could have been done better by elementary school kids. I read the previous reviews, but thought people were just being harsh, I have mistaken! People were actually being nice when they say this movie is a waste of time. I'm so pissed I rented this; I want every second of my life back that I wasted watching this movie. While watching it, I kept saying to myself, "It'll get better." I said it all the way to the credits. If I could give this movie negative stars I would. Don't waste your time renting or buying it.

Nothing else to say. My title says it all. Other reviewers sure hit the nail on the head for this one. I was peeved I spent $2.50 to rent it.

I completely agree with the previous reviewer. This movie is just about as bad as it gets. A boring, senseless script with bumbling "actors", silly dialogue, and production values that would embarrass a high-school film project are all combined in this typical Ulli Lommel project. Lommel really should look for work in another field, as he clearly has no idea how to produce a film worth watching. Ed Wood's worst film is a masterwork compared to this steaming heap of trash. The real zombies are the hacks who produced this mess.

Hello World,
I really don't have to say anything, the other reviews are 100% correct. I watch about 80 to 100 horror movies a year, this is a complete waste of time. Mr. Lommel needs to take up accountng or something.

Zombie Nation (Ulli Lommel, 2004)

According to the voting at IMDB, Zombie Nation is the fourteenth worst movie of all time as I write this (3 November 2009). I disagree. It's barely the fourteenth worst movie I've seen this week, and two, Grizzly Park and Dark Remains, stand out as far more worthy of inclusion on IMDB's 100-worst list (for comparison's sake, Zombie Nation sits at 1.6, while Grizzly Park rates a 4.1 and Dark Remains a 5.2). Don't get me wrong, this movie is terrible in ways that make me want to curl up in a corner and suck my thumb, but believe me when I tell you that worse things exist in the dark corners of your video store.

The barely intelligible plot involves a corrupt cop, Joe Singer (Gunther Ziegler, a veteran of this sort of direct-to-video crap who showed up very briefly in Get Smart! last year), who really has a thing for killing women. His new partner, Vitalio (Brandon Dean), suspects something is up, but because he's a braindead moron, doesn't really get it. This interplay takes up the first hour of this eighty-minute movie, so I'd not tell you any more for fear of spoilers except that, well, the movie is called Zombie Nation. So you probably figured out that one of his victims is under the protection of voodoo priestesses, and so they all come back to get their revenge.

This is far more urban drama/really awful mystery than it is horror movie. The gore effects are cheap and minimal and all the supposed horror is packed into the final twenty minutes. (Those unwise enough to have seen more of Lommel's post-Fassbinder work will probably recognize the idiotic flashback technique enough to understand what's going on, but for those of you who haven't, just roll with it, it will all be made clear eventually, Kind of.) This can sometimes be effective if your movie is actually building tension with great characters or an amazing script (viz. Paranormal Activity), but everything about this movie is so far below average that gutter would be a step up. I do have to give Lommel points, however, for managing to keep an hour and ten minutes of footage in an hour and twenty minute film in the same location. (Almost the entire film was shot in one large warehouse. Which gets really, really funny in the police-precinct scenes.) This is a man who knows how to take no budget and turn it into serious no-budget crap. If you look at it as a stupid unintentional comedy that you can use as, say, a drinking game, then there is some value to be had here. But I could go on all day about how horrible this movie is and we'd still be here at closing time. So just take my word for it; you want to avoid this movie unless your only other choices are Sci-Fi Channel Originals. *

This movie is just plain bad. I usually love low buget horror movies but this movie has no redeeming qualities at all. The acting is bad, the makeup effects are bad, and the story is bad. This is a low buget movie that tries to take itself too seriously and that is where it fails. The box is the best part of the movie. Too bad the zombies in this movie look nothing like it. Don't buy it, don't rent it, hell, don't even give it a second thought. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

zombies??? what zombies? nation? what nation??? this dvd didn't even make it to my collection!!! don't bother with it!!!