Review – Exhumed

I’ve developed a certain amount of affection for low-budget indie producers who come up with clever combinations of horror themes and classic movie pastiches. And this one goes two for three. The first entry in this zombie trilogy pits the undead against Kurosawa-esque characters (actual Asian actors speaking Japanese, no less). The second isn’t quite as good, but as a vaguely horror-fied hardboiled detective piece, it’s okay. Then the show falls flat. The third tale begins life as a Mods vs. Rockers reworking of Underworld, but it swiftly devolves into what we’ve all come to dread from the straight-to-video horror market: crappy gore and cheap sex. If you’ve been hankerin’ for a vampire-werewolf goth girl lesbian love-‘em-up, here’s your dream come true. Otherwise, feel free to pull the plug when the noir comes to an end (even though the story doesn’t wrap until it’s tied in with the third story at the end of the set). Mildly amusing