What to say about this movie? Its from the same guy that made Sadomaster, a ultra violent no budget movie that everyone but me hate. Is this new movie better than Sadomaster? I don't know. Its ten times gorier, much more blood (this one is a non stop bloody movie). The production looks a little more professional than in Sadomaster that looked like a home movie. I liked Sadomaster, it was trash but with some great scenes like the retarded rape and i also like this movie, it features some scenes like that and features more blood and tits. Maybe its a little too long (even if its only 75 minutes) and the Hostel rip-off mixed with zombies doesn't work very good. Anyway, i enjoyed this one, a good watch if you like ultra gore low budget movies like Bone Sickness or stuff like that.
3 Reviews
The filmmakers need to learn to work within their limitations
paultagonist3 July 2009
This is really down there with the worst of the worst. There were just so many things to take you out of the movie, and everything else was so weak that the numerous bad aspects stood out like my dad on Viagra. Now, I don't mind no-budget zombie flicks; in fact I watch all of 'em that I can and have found some real diamonds in the rough.. but if I didn't have to write a review for it I would've turned it off, or, at least "watch" it while doing something else. But I hunkered down and sucked it up.
The story: Toro gets paid by the Catholic church to kill zombies. A video crops up of him doing nasty things to little boys, and the church is forced to fire him. Toro then goes on a binge of sin and moves to the jungle to get away from society. His replacement quickly gets gobbled up by the zombies, and Toro's old army buddy finds and injects him with some super-drug that makes him a badass zombie hunter once again.
I'm going to get the positive things out of the way right now: it was introduced by Lloyd Kaufmann, there's a couple pairs of bare well-shaped natural breasts, and the "Apocolypse Now" part of the "Zombie Apocalypse Now" title is exactly the same as the original Apocalypse Now - I thought that was neat.
Now then... I hate to dog on a movie that I got for free from a stranger, but this movie leaves me little choice. I don't even know where to start.
From the very beginning the whole thing smacked of amateur, and not in a cute kind of YouTube way. The movie tried to be gross and/or offensive, but, just, failed.. hard. The obviously gratuitous torture scenes came off as silly rather than shocking, since you really need it to look real to be effective, and the special effects fall short (like, the length of Grand Canyon short). The filmmakers need to learn to work within their limitations. The zombies are never explained in any way. It seems like a normal society in which we currently live in, just with an odd zombie cropping up here or there with no bearing on the goings-on of day-to-day living. More background would've fleshed out the story a little at least.
Speaking of the actual zombies, the make-up was absolutely horrible. Some actors were just smeared with green paint, while others wore (what really did look like) paper mache masks, while still others just had bits of artificial skin (I guess?) hanging off their cheek. There was four or five scenes where zombies do the classic "pull guts out of victim while victim lies on the ground," and those looked only a little sub-par for a micro-budget zombie flick.
The camera-work and editing was just lazy. In nearly every inside scene there were huge shadows cast on everything from an obviously unnatural light source. During the stripping scene, the camera pans a little too far to the right and we see she's dancing in front of a blanket hanging on the wall. Also, for seemingly no reason, there was footage of a zombie walk thrown in that had no bearing on the story at all. There wasn't even the slightest attempt to work it into the story. (Incidentally, many of the zombies on that walk had better make-up than the zombies in this film.) One more example: the movie keeps going for two full minutes after the credits stop rolling (so we're staring at a black screen) just to let the song play out.
Sound was equally bad. Many times the sound effects (puking, sawing, punching) were noticeably louder than the recorded sound and, again, came off as silly and repetitive. The soundtrack was the same monotonous guitar variation over and over, but luckily it only got annoying a few times.
All in all, I'm glad I watched it once, to satiate my curiosity, but this particular disc will never again be played in any DVD player. If you want an enjoyable zombie flick from Argentina, check out Plaga Zombie: Mutant Zone instead.
The story: Toro gets paid by the Catholic church to kill zombies. A video crops up of him doing nasty things to little boys, and the church is forced to fire him. Toro then goes on a binge of sin and moves to the jungle to get away from society. His replacement quickly gets gobbled up by the zombies, and Toro's old army buddy finds and injects him with some super-drug that makes him a badass zombie hunter once again.
I'm going to get the positive things out of the way right now: it was introduced by Lloyd Kaufmann, there's a couple pairs of bare well-shaped natural breasts, and the "Apocolypse Now" part of the "Zombie Apocalypse Now" title is exactly the same as the original Apocalypse Now - I thought that was neat.
Now then... I hate to dog on a movie that I got for free from a stranger, but this movie leaves me little choice. I don't even know where to start.
From the very beginning the whole thing smacked of amateur, and not in a cute kind of YouTube way. The movie tried to be gross and/or offensive, but, just, failed.. hard. The obviously gratuitous torture scenes came off as silly rather than shocking, since you really need it to look real to be effective, and the special effects fall short (like, the length of Grand Canyon short). The filmmakers need to learn to work within their limitations. The zombies are never explained in any way. It seems like a normal society in which we currently live in, just with an odd zombie cropping up here or there with no bearing on the goings-on of day-to-day living. More background would've fleshed out the story a little at least.
Speaking of the actual zombies, the make-up was absolutely horrible. Some actors were just smeared with green paint, while others wore (what really did look like) paper mache masks, while still others just had bits of artificial skin (I guess?) hanging off their cheek. There was four or five scenes where zombies do the classic "pull guts out of victim while victim lies on the ground," and those looked only a little sub-par for a micro-budget zombie flick.
The camera-work and editing was just lazy. In nearly every inside scene there were huge shadows cast on everything from an obviously unnatural light source. During the stripping scene, the camera pans a little too far to the right and we see she's dancing in front of a blanket hanging on the wall. Also, for seemingly no reason, there was footage of a zombie walk thrown in that had no bearing on the story at all. There wasn't even the slightest attempt to work it into the story. (Incidentally, many of the zombies on that walk had better make-up than the zombies in this film.) One more example: the movie keeps going for two full minutes after the credits stop rolling (so we're staring at a black screen) just to let the song play out.
Sound was equally bad. Many times the sound effects (puking, sawing, punching) were noticeably louder than the recorded sound and, again, came off as silly and repetitive. The soundtrack was the same monotonous guitar variation over and over, but luckily it only got annoying a few times.
All in all, I'm glad I watched it once, to satiate my curiosity, but this particular disc will never again be played in any DVD player. If you want an enjoyable zombie flick from Argentina, check out Plaga Zombie: Mutant Zone instead.
Toro loves the smell of zombie guts in the morning...
ninjas-r-cool7 December 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Horror is considered by many, not least of which its fans, as a haven for the social misfit. We all know this genre can produce classy films that get those big box office dollars but, much like any kind of extreme or offbeat artform, it tends to have a DIY ethos. Just as the punk movement inspired street kids to pawn their mum's TV and buy a guitar, horror fans often get their hands on a camera and make their own budgetless epics. German Magarinos is one such fan. For a number of years now, the Argentinian director armed only with a camera, a few gallons of fake blood, some pig guts and the will to offend everyone he can, has been making Z-grade gore flicks that make Bad Taste seem like a 100 million dollar Hollywood blockbuster in comparison. This is as underground as it gets.
Un Cazador de Zombis (aka Zombie Apocalypse Now) is about a rather perverted fellow named Toro who's hired by the church to waste zombies. That's all I'll say about the plot because... that's all the plot there is. This is a difficult film to review, because you can't really criticise a movie for something that it clearly never attempts to be. If you're looking for quality acting, 3 dimensional characters and a well-crafted storyline, then you've come to the wrong place. It doesn't even have a reason for the zombie outbreak, but it doesn't really need one as the zombies are really just a coathanger on which to hang the film's many scenes of bloodshed, dismemberment and sexual deviancy. If most viewers aren't already put off by all the butcher shop leftovers strewn across the screen, then the pedophilia and mouth-rape gags should be enough to turn them away. It's not a "good" film by any conventional criteria, but then being "good" is the last thing on its mind.
There is, however, a small but dedicated fanbase for this brand of cheapo splatter and tasteless humour, and fair play to Magarinos for knowing his audience and giving them what they want. Whilst some of the jokes fall flat, there's quite a bit of charm to this gleefully offensive schlockfest. Don't go in expecting to see Dawn of the Dead toppled from its throne as King of zombie epics. Just grab a six-pack and settle in for some micro-budget splattery zombie fun with a nice little Apocalypse Now homage thrown in for good measure. It also deserves mentioning that the whole thing is a noticeable improvement on Sadomaster.
Some day when the real zombie apocalypse strikes and the absurd, slapstick joke called the human race is effectively extinct, we'll all be down in Horror Hell. Wander round in the dirtiest part of town down there and, just down the road from the Shrine to St Herschell, you may stumble across a bar called The Burst Colon. Lloyd Kaufman owns the place. Ted V. Mikels drops in occasionally to tell everyone how lovely they are and give out hugs, but he leaves before things get too lairy. Todd Sheets is behind bar. The Polonia brothers work there as bouncers, savagely mutilating and raping anyone who doesn't at least attempt to start a fight. There's even a big screen TV that plays Cannibal Campout on a constant loop. Here's where you'll find German Magarinos, most likely in the corner, racking up lines of cocaine on a Malaysian rentboy's ass crack. He'll fit right in among this crowd.
Un Cazador de Zombis (aka Zombie Apocalypse Now) is about a rather perverted fellow named Toro who's hired by the church to waste zombies. That's all I'll say about the plot because... that's all the plot there is. This is a difficult film to review, because you can't really criticise a movie for something that it clearly never attempts to be. If you're looking for quality acting, 3 dimensional characters and a well-crafted storyline, then you've come to the wrong place. It doesn't even have a reason for the zombie outbreak, but it doesn't really need one as the zombies are really just a coathanger on which to hang the film's many scenes of bloodshed, dismemberment and sexual deviancy. If most viewers aren't already put off by all the butcher shop leftovers strewn across the screen, then the pedophilia and mouth-rape gags should be enough to turn them away. It's not a "good" film by any conventional criteria, but then being "good" is the last thing on its mind.
There is, however, a small but dedicated fanbase for this brand of cheapo splatter and tasteless humour, and fair play to Magarinos for knowing his audience and giving them what they want. Whilst some of the jokes fall flat, there's quite a bit of charm to this gleefully offensive schlockfest. Don't go in expecting to see Dawn of the Dead toppled from its throne as King of zombie epics. Just grab a six-pack and settle in for some micro-budget splattery zombie fun with a nice little Apocalypse Now homage thrown in for good measure. It also deserves mentioning that the whole thing is a noticeable improvement on Sadomaster.
Some day when the real zombie apocalypse strikes and the absurd, slapstick joke called the human race is effectively extinct, we'll all be down in Horror Hell. Wander round in the dirtiest part of town down there and, just down the road from the Shrine to St Herschell, you may stumble across a bar called The Burst Colon. Lloyd Kaufman owns the place. Ted V. Mikels drops in occasionally to tell everyone how lovely they are and give out hugs, but he leaves before things get too lairy. Todd Sheets is behind bar. The Polonia brothers work there as bouncers, savagely mutilating and raping anyone who doesn't at least attempt to start a fight. There's even a big screen TV that plays Cannibal Campout on a constant loop. Here's where you'll find German Magarinos, most likely in the corner, racking up lines of cocaine on a Malaysian rentboy's ass crack. He'll fit right in among this crowd.
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