FleshEater (1988)

A group of college students on an overnite hayride come across a group of maneating zombies. They must fight for their lives while trying to escape and warn the authorities.

Director:

S. William Hinzman (as Bill Hinzman)

Writers:

S. William Hinzman (story) (as Bill Hinzman), S. William Hinzman (screenplay) (as Bill Hinzman)

Stars:

S. William Hinzman, John Mowod, Leslie Ann Wick

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
S. William Hinzman	...	FleshEater (as Bill Hinzman)
John Mowod	...	Bob
Leslie Ann Wick	...	Sally
Kevin Kindlin	...	Ralph
Charis Kirkpatrik Acuff	...	Lisa
James J. Rutan	...	Eddie
Lisa Smith	...	Kim
Denise Morrone	...	Carrie
Mark Strycula	...	Bill
Kathleen Marie Rupnik	...	Julie
Matthew C. Danilko	...	Tony
David A. Sodergren	...	Farmer Dave
Tom Madden	...	Tractor Driver (as Tom 'Where R.U.' Madden)
David Ashby	...	Harv
Terrie Godfrey	...	Dispatcher (as Theresa Marie)

Storyline

A group of teenagers, taking a nocturnal hayride come across the grave of a man. Little did they know that this deceased man is a zombie. One by one, the actual living are falling victim and becoming zombies. Eventually there are zombies everywhere, and someone needs to stop them, but who?

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Plot Keywords:

extreme violence | gory violence | child murder | eaten alive | graphic violence | 

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Taglines:

He lived, he died, he's back, and he's hungry!

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 March 1989 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Flesh Eater

Filming Locations:

Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$60,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

H&G Films Ltd., Hinzman

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Based on the zombie that S. William Hinzman played in Night of the Living Dead (1968).

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Goofs

When Bill HInzman pulls his hand out of the girls stomach, there is blood visible on the waistband of her dress. This shows that this scene took more than one take for the blood to be there already.

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Quotes

Sheriff: Give me your attention, men. I want you to understand we have a dangerous situation here. I've already lost one man. Most of you knew Harv Morgan. I want to get those things that killed him. Now, we are going to split up into groups. No less than two people to a group. We're going to head west until we meet up with the group coming from the east with Deputy Gary.
Posse Member: What are we looking for?
Posse Member: Yeah, Sheriff. What are these things?
Sheriff: They're dead things. They're dead, and they're attacking people.

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Crazy Credits

The characters and events depicted in the motion picture entitled "FLESHEATER" are fictional. Any similarity to actual persons living, dead, or the living dead, or to actual events or places is purely coincidental.

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Alternate Versions

The 1993 UK Vipco video version (released as "Zombie Nosh") was cut by 1 minute 41 secs by the BBFC to remove a disemboweling scene, the flesheater forcing his hand through a topless girl's stomach and shots of a topless female zombie eating a corpse, and to heavily edit a scene where a girl is chased around a bedroom and bitten. The cuts were fully restored for the 2003 DVD release.

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Connections

Referenced in 31 Days of Horror: Flesheater (1988) (2012)

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Soundtracks

Starting Over
Written by Danny Fehl
Performed by HEDGG

User Reviews

Predictable but still not bad

As other reviewers have mentioned, Flesheater stars Bill Hinzman of Night of the Living Dead fame as the title zombie in an all out attack in the undead. The film by no means gets close to the entertainment level of the movie it draws inspiration from, Night of the Living Dead, but is still entertaining to a degree despite being highly predictable. As stated before, a farmer uncovers a wooden box with a bizarre warning on it that had obviously been buried for decades, and upon opening it releases the zombie Hinzman who starts his rampage of undead terror. The acting is not the greatest and the story drags at times, but some scenes are pretty spooky, such as when Hinzman and some other zombies wander into town and attack a family in a suburban house. The ending, which I won't reveal here, is highly predictable and you can see it coming a long time off. All in all, Flesheater may not be the greatest horror film ever made, or even a great zombie movie, but it's not totally awful, either.