This Italian flesh munching zombie flick gets no marks for coherency. It does have something resembling a story, but mostly focuses on mayhem. It's so bad that what it looks like is somebody's home movies, thrown together with enthusiastic, if not that talented, friends, and full to the brim with hilariously tacky gore. Those horror fans who love the weird and the enjoyably bad are sure to be amused to some degree while watching.
Basically, researchers have come to an island paradise to work on curing diseases such as cancer and anger the local voodoo practitioner. The result is an onslaught of the living dead; cut to 20 years later, and two different parties - another bunch of researchers and a team of mercenaries - come to the place. Guess what happens. Yup, those pesky living dead are still around to snack on the steady supply of stupid people.
The dialogue is hilarious, made even more so by the horrible dubbing and cruddy performances. That doesn't mean, however, that the actors don't entertain in their own way, including Jeff Stryker as tenacious hero Chuck and beautiful Candice Daly as useless heroine Jenny, a gal who's going to need saving on a regular basis.
The fumbling direction is by "Troll 2" screenwriter / director Claudio Fragasso, who at least is able to milk the Philippines location for as much atmosphere as possible. The almost non- stop electronic music score by Al Festa is consistently amusing and is the final touch on this ridiculous, but irresistible hunk of cheese.
Worth a look just to see zombies that talk quite a bit and are just as happy firing guns as they are using their teeth.
Five out of 10.
Basically, researchers have come to an island paradise to work on curing diseases such as cancer and anger the local voodoo practitioner. The result is an onslaught of the living dead; cut to 20 years later, and two different parties - another bunch of researchers and a team of mercenaries - come to the place. Guess what happens. Yup, those pesky living dead are still around to snack on the steady supply of stupid people.
The dialogue is hilarious, made even more so by the horrible dubbing and cruddy performances. That doesn't mean, however, that the actors don't entertain in their own way, including Jeff Stryker as tenacious hero Chuck and beautiful Candice Daly as useless heroine Jenny, a gal who's going to need saving on a regular basis.
The fumbling direction is by "Troll 2" screenwriter / director Claudio Fragasso, who at least is able to milk the Philippines location for as much atmosphere as possible. The almost non- stop electronic music score by Al Festa is consistently amusing and is the final touch on this ridiculous, but irresistible hunk of cheese.
Worth a look just to see zombies that talk quite a bit and are just as happy firing guns as they are using their teeth.
Five out of 10.