Friday, January 12, 2007

Review – Zombie Nation

I’m genuinely curious here. Does the screenwriter even speak the language in which he’s writing? Has either the director or the editor ever seen a movie? I’d ask a similar question about the set designer, but I can’t imagine there even was one (I didn’t bother to check the credits to see if anyone would plead guilty). The story here has something to do with a psycho cop who kidnaps, tortures and murders women. Or is he a cop? The “police station” where he works with the rest of the “force” looks so much like an empty warehouse that it’s hard to say if we’re being confronted with an alternate-reality law enforcement operation as in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or merely really terrible production values. I suspect the latter. In any event, a group of odd voodoo women raise the killer’s victims from the dead. Smeared with greasepaint that makes them look like raccoons, these poor souls go after revenge. With quality this bad and misogynist violence this excessive, this one dodges “avoid at all costs” only by the narrowest of margins. Wish I’d skipped it

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