Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill (2004)

When a group of college kids stumble upon a small abandoned town of Sunset Valley, they must fight a band of Zombies led by a soldier seeking retribution for his grisly execution.

Director:

Byron Werner

Writers:

John Yuan, Matt Yuan

Stars:

Chelsea Jean, Gregory Bastien, Denise Boutte

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chelsea Jean	...	Gwen
Gregory Bastien	...	Earl
Denise Boutte	...	Mandy
Scott Carson	...	Avery
Matt Marraccini	...	Jerry
Kandis Erickson	...	Sondra
Steven Glinn	...	Buck
Jeremy Bouvet	...	Bloody Bill
Dean N. Arevalo	...	Darrel
Tori Gonzales	...	Priest (as Tori Gonzalez)
Summer Davis	...	Little Zombie Girl
Jaycee Davis	...	Little Zombie Boy
Lee McLaughlin	...	Zombie Bartender (as Lee Hinton)
Eric Steele	...	Zombie Patron
Ben Acker	...	Zombie

Storyline

While traveling in a van with their teacher for a contest, a group of college friends are abducted by the criminal Earl, who forces them to go to the ghost town of Sunset Valley to meet his friend that was transporting drugs and money of their own. Once in the town, they realize that the dwellers are zombies and their leader is Bloody Bill, a Confederate soldier seeking revenge the execution of his sister that was hanged by the locals and the population was cursed by Bloody Bill.

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Plot Keywords:

slow motion | zombie | gore | blood | lifting female in air | 

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Taglines:

In the middle of nowhere, there is nowhere to run.

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Genres:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for horror violence/gore, language and some drug use

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 October 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

Bloody Bill

Filming Locations:

Agua Dulce Movie Ranch - 34855 Petersen Road, Agua Dulce, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$750,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Asylum, The

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Jerry is telling the legend of Bloody Bill he describes Bill as a former Union solider while a confederate flag is draped over Bloody Bill's coffin. Bloody Bill is referenced as a Confederate solider from then on.

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Connections

Referenced in Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill - Behind the Scenes (2004)

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Soundtracks

"Lower"
Written and Performed by Ralph Riechermann

User Reviews

What a pile of crapola

I've waded through lots of zombie movies trying to find some good ones.And since Romero has only made 5 there aren't very many good ones among the loads of stinkers out there.This one was one of the worst pieces of homemade garbage I've seen yet in my quest to find good zombie movies.

A group of what look to be mostly 20 year olds set off in a van on what I think was a going to a trip to a debating contest.Along the way they get hijacked by a dope dealer who is trying to find his partner who has disappeared out in the Arizona landscape somewhere.Anyway the group tracks the dope dealer to a ghost town in the middle of nowhere.Shortly after arriving the kids are attacked by the missing dope dealer who is all bloody and talks kinda funny.

So immediately one of the debaters starts rattling off about the legend of Bloody Bill,a confederate solider ,who ended up out west after the war was over.Legend has it that Bill swore revenge on the town-folk who had killed him for bad stuff he did in the war.How they linked the wounded dope dealer up to Bloody Bill so quick was sort of glossed over and the kid who knew all the details was obviously and painfully reading his lines as we watched flashbacks of how Bill came to be.

Anyway the town soon becomes alive with Bill's zombies who run from one old building to another ,as do the kids,in what sometimes looks like a Benny Hill chase scene without being anywhere near as entertaining.All we needed was "Yakety Sax" as background music.

Speaking of music this film had one,what I took to be,death metal song with idiotic lyrics that was played over and over and over.But really so much was wrong with this film it isn't hardly worth mentioning it all.The zombies were those kind that were just sort of halfway done, no well done zombie make up here. In the flesh eating scenes,which there are very few, we see the cheapo looking rubber stuff instead of the real looking latex standing in for human flesh.In one scene a grenade goes off downstairs but in the shot outside we see the blast and smoke coming out an upstairs window.

One guy runs around and around trying to escape the zombies but all the while keeps one hand on his Kenny Chesney looking cowboy hat to keep from losing it.No one in this film could act their way out of a wet paper bag.The plot and script were terrible and the special effects were as crappy as any I've seen.

In short,this whole mess looks exactly like what it is.....a bunch of lame asses making a zombie movie without one single shred of talent whatsoever.It turns out looking like the homemade junk that it is.

Hey I only paid a buck for this thing at Wal-Mart and I wish I had my dollar back.Yeah it was that bad.