Bombshell Bloodbath (2014)

When exposed to her father's experimental attempts to reanimate his wife, Cara (Alex Elliott), must find a way to protect her family's secret while slowly slipping into the world of the living dead.

Director:

Brett Mullen

Writers:

Brett Mullen, Sky Tilley

Stars:

Alex Elliott, Ed Ricker, Rob Springer

Cast

Credited cast:
Alex Elliott	...	Cara
Ed Ricker	...	Edward
Rob Springer	...	Doctor Carter
Jeff Briggs	...	Bill
Samantha Mills	...	Sarah
Kathy Butler Sandvoss	...	Lisa Carter
Miles Snow	...	Robert Summers
Matthew B. Moore	...	Redneck 1
Jess Barbour	...	Denise Carter
Shane Terry	...	Donald
Larry Parks	...	Sheriff Parks
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tom Bailey	...	Redneck #2
Jaysen P. Buterin	...	Asshole Bar Guy
Christopher Cozort	...	Redneck 7
Owen Daly	...	News Reporter

Storyline

A young woman who appears to be a zombie sits with a gun in a room full of corpses. Cara Carter describes how her father, Dr. Ben Carter, decided to bring his dead wife back from the dead. Naturally, in the process of trying out his formula he manages to create a ton of zombies. His daughter gets exposed to the drug, but it has an unusual effect on her as she retains her intelligence and emotions. Of course, the zombie plague soon starts to spread. The bites, quite naturally, are infectious. With law enforcement seemingly hopeless dumb, is there any hope of survival?

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Taglines:

Just a little chemical reaction

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Genres:

Horror

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 January 2015 (USA)

Box Office

Budget:

$500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

The Drive In Film Series, Red Nebula

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

User Reviews

A love letter to VHS horrors

After a zombie virus takes hold a group of people try to find a cure and stay alive.

Bombshell Bloodbath is the perfect quintessential homage to the late 70s and early 80s countless churned out VHS horrors and banned video nasties. Brett Mullen and writer Sky Tilley cleverly offer a mash-up of horror ideas borrowing from the best of the worst and best of the best including Dawn of the Dead, The Beyond, The Evil Dead to name a few.

Bombshell Bloodbath is purposely all over the place with its tone harking back to the good old days of horror and grind house cinema. Moody voice overs, dramatic mad scientist, experiments with rats, tape recordings, seedy strip clubs, cabins in the wood and zombies tearing flesh and more.

The flesh eaters mostly bookend the film with the actors emulating the days of Neon Maniacs, Nightmare City and the countless horror performances alike. Samantha Mills it great as the mysterious blonde bombshell, Cara is wonderfully played by Alex Elliott in amongst the great practical effects and archetype camera angles of Italian exploitation films, like the Barbarians, Rats and Hell of the Living Dead. The music is the icing on the cake for nostalgia hounds and new fans of the old sub-genre horror with composer Matt Hill channelling the likes of Fabio Frizzi and Goblin.

Bombshell Bloodbath does what House of the Devil recreated for old school horrors, this revisits the atmosphere and execution of horror exploitation films.

If there ever was an indie love letter written to Fulci, Romero, Argento and Lenzi, it would look something like this.