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1.0 out of 5 stars
horrible, February 20, 2002
This review is from: Zombie Rampage (1992) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
i really wanted to like this movie. the cover made it look great but really it [was bad]. i mean it had no storyline what so ever the zombies just kinda appeared out of no where. i mean one minute they arent there then the are! no explanation why they are there theyre just there. then the dialouge is awful i couldnt follow it at all. and to top it all off, it had random audio tracks from "Night of the Living Dead", "Zombie" and "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things!" ignore this movie at all costs, i paid [price] for this movie and i wish i could return it for not liking it...oh well thats what eBay's for!
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1.0 out of 5 stars
I'm just amazed I found it on Amazon..., November 19, 2008
This review is from: Zombie Rampage (1992) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Zombie Rampage: The Director's Cut (Todd Sheets, 1989)
I'm a sucker for zombie movies. Put the shambling dead in it and no matter how awful it looks, I'll at least give it a look. Sometimes that leads me to demanding the hour and a half I just spent watching a movie back from the gods, as was the case with Todd Sheets' Zombie Rampage, a movie so bad I had to resist the urge to simply fast-forward through it (and I say this as a diehard fan of Midnight Skater).
The paper-thin plot involves two rival gangs and one's plot to raise its fallen members as zombies. The other gang, believing they'll control the zombies if they raise them first, perform the ritual instead. The zombies, of course, are controlled by no one (and, oddly, are up and around long before the ritual takes place. Continuity, it seems, is optional in Todd Sheets movies). From there, any shred of plot is ripped away, and the movie becomes a series of cuts between a number of survivors fighting amongst themselves and zombies killing folks. Pretty standard fare.
I'm not sure how much this movie cost to make; whatever it was, it was too much. Some of the zombies look far more like clowns than they do the walking dead. Half the ambient sound (and all the radio broadcasts) were ripped straight out of Night of the Living Dead. The soundtrack does provide some amusement at times, but is so badly-recorded it sounds like a bootleg heard through a concrete wall. The camerawork is shoddy most of the time, though it does reach the heights of awful once in a while. The acting is some of the worst I've ever come across (a couple of actors stumble over their lines and correct themselves-- and it's still in the movie!). The serial-killer subplot is beyond ridiculous. I could go on and on and on about how many terrible things there are about this movie, but I'll stop there. Unfortunately, it's not a movie that transcends the awfulness and enters that odd realm of cheesy greatness that one gets from movies like Night of the Lepus; it's just relentlessly, tirelessly bad, rather like the zombies it depicts with such amateur fervor. (half)
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