Zombie '90: Extreme Pestilence (1991)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 80 minuten
Alternative title: Zombi 7
Country:
Germany
Directed by: Andreas Schnaas
Stars: Ralf Hess
IMDb score:
3,4 (739)
Releasedate: 2 June 1991
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Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3576 votes
Amateurish shot-on-video junk, made a lot more fun by the hilarious dubbing. The film feels like a long video from MasterMovies due to its completely inappropriate dubbing and this was originally intended as a joke, but director Andreas Schnaas thought it was so funny that he kept it. And considering it's actually the best thing about the film, this isn't a bad choice. The tall, dorky doctor suddenly has the voice of a tough African-American guy and his mustachioed colleague sounds like a drunken Spongebob Squarepants. In the meantime, the most hilarious dialogues pass by. I was especially devastated by the woman in the wheelchair who carries a plastic doll and at one point says: 'I mean, look at me. And my baby Leroy-Bob.' The fate of this Leroy-Bob is perhaps just as comical.
Because there is the second 'power' of Zombie 90: the moronic effects of Schnaas. He mainly has two effects that he likes to show in this film: a lot of pink intestines and strings that zombies can pull out of their victims and a construction that can squirt blood. So people go wild with machetes and chainsaws on the zombies, but in this case the zombies themselves also know how to use weapons such as axes and chainsaws. Schnaas doesn't care as long as the blood can fly. He throws plastic hands and heads around and there's blood everywhere. Sometimes Schnaas seems so impressed by his own gore that he almost wants to press his camera into it, while we constantly get a lot of wet sound effects and smacking pumped into our ears. With such amateur splatter you quickly think of an Evil Dead or Bad Taste, but then it becomes painfully clear that Schnaas can do no more than provide some pubescent underwear fun. In all other areas - from camera work to editing - the film is nothing more than what everyone's uncle can throw together on a Saturday afternoon with his handycam.
2 stars.
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Woland
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- 4810 messages
- 3826 votes
I have heard Andreas Schnaas mentioned before, especially as the man behind Violent Shit. But I've never seen anything of it before, and unlike VS, I could easily fit it into the horror challenge. I can only agree with the upstairs neighbor. It's incredibly messy, but in a very fun way. It's cheap, it's bloody, it's trash, but with two aspects that make the film quite watchable.
First of all, I don't know if a German dub actually exists, but like everyone else here, I've seen an English dub, and it's so bad, it's almost unwatchable. Not only in terms of timing or synchronization or lyrics (both of which are a lot of rubbish), but especially the accents, where a lanky, dorky German suddenly sounds like Shaft and where his colleague also gets a bizarre accent. There are also a lot of one-liners, and Schnaas seems to want to pretend that his film was made in inbred Mississippi or West Virginia with character names like Leroy Bob. Leroy Bob who as a baby is clearly a doll, but within a minute he is bloodily torn apart by a zombie.
And secondly, what effects, fantastic. Everything is obviously fake, but that doesn't stop Schnaas from unleashing fountains of blood and spilling intestines everywhere. Rarely seen so much blood and so much obvious fakeness in it. I was happy that the film only lasted a good hour, because at a certain point you kind of know, but in the meantime this is the definition of 'so bad it starts to get good again'. Well, no one will call this good, but I have seen less watchable films in this challenge.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Actually so bad that it just becomes fun. The film is really unwatchable. Even the gory scenes, which are shown quite a bit, don't amount to much. The problem lies in the fact that the fake blood just looks too fake. Far too light in color, it tends more towards orange than (dark) red. Also the intestines or other organs, well, no. Nice to see all those blood fountains!
The acting is hilarious. I did see a dubbed version on YouTube now, but still. The voices didn't even match the characters, hilarious. And the acting itself: wonderful! The low point was the scene after the shower where the one came back and saw a dismembered corpse. The reaction... I was in stitches!
And yet, as mentioned, it is watchable. Wonderfully bad and that's something. Maybe he'll get even better with a few bars and extra beers.
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