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 Toxic Zombies (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Suitable for 18 years and over / Theatrical Release: 1980 / Director: Chuck McCrann / Actors: John ... more  Toxic Zombies (DVD) ... Amplas, Dennis Helfend, Beverly Shapiro, Chuck McCrann, Paul Haskin ... / DVD released 05 June, 2007 at Telavista / Features of the DVD: Closed-captioned, Colour, PALNewest Review: ... were a bit like other videos on the list; this has to be the case with this one, as there's nothing in it that would have ... more ... warranted banning, even in 1984.
The cheapness isn't so much of a problem. The location doesn't really feel like it's as remote as it's supposed to be (possibly because so many people are conveniently hanging out there just to provide a decent body count); but it *is* quite pretty. It's very wet, as if it had just stopped raining heavily, and actually made me feel quite refreshed watching it. It also means that the only props that are needed are a few tents and cars.
There's no real flair to the film, but it's rather ...more |
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Toxic Zombies (DVD): Goddamn zombie hippies! (791 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 29.03.08 (Very useful, 90 readings)
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A review of just the film - there's a region free DVD available through amazon's international sellers, but the picture quality's not so good. This is a very cheap horror film from 1980. It was released on video in the UK in the 80s as Forest of Fear (it's gone by many other titles). It was banned as part of the video nasties scare, which is most likely the only reason anyone's heard of it. Some hippies are growing cannabis in a forest. An unidentified government agency dusts the crops with an untested defoliant. The hippies get 'dusted' too, by mistake, and soon enough they've become sort-of zombies slaughtering anyone in their path. The usual ...
