Posted by Migo on Dec 29th, 2006
Over the holiday gift-giving season, I received a gift from my roommate. This gift was a copy of Redneck Zombies. A 1987 flick featuring, you guessed it, rednecks. The twist? They’re turned into zombies by moonshine made from toxic waste. A more detailed review lies in wait, just under the jump.
There’s not much to say about this…movie other than it depicts the height of 80’s mall fashion in startling detail, down to the last mullet, and it comes with the Shakespearean tagline of “They’re Tobacco Chewin’, Gut Chompin’, Cannibal Kinfolk from Hell!”. It’s a Troma flick, so of course it’s very tongue-in-cheek as far as subject material goes.
The entire movie, horrible camera angles and all, looks like it was shot with 8mm film with your uncle’s borrowed suitcase-sized camcorder. The sound quality, however, is fairly high-quality for an 80’s movie. So one can only guess that most of the budget went towards audio…and booze.
The acting, in typical Troma fashion, is very bad, but it’s to be expected. One character, Bob, however, is so far over the top that during the scene in which he says he has dropped acid and begins to trip, you actually believe him. There’s also a gender confused hilljack in this movie who requests to be called Ellie-May, which isn’t a name befitting a bearded man-ape and watching him try out his “woman walk” is like watching a linebacker trying on high heels.
To sum it up, the acting is terrible, but that’s to be expected from a Troma video. The actors know the acting is awful, and they fully play off it. Talking directly to the camera, over-the-top reactions, the list goes on. It’s a lot of fun in that regard.
The effects weren’t terrible in this movie, they weren’t Hollywood quality, by any stretch of the imagination, but they were believable.
All in all, this isn’t a cinematic masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but is a good flick to sit around with your friends and have a good hard laugh, especially if you’ve had a few too many. You can also make fun of the movie without feeling you’ve missed an important part of the plot by talking through it.
Final verdict:
Visuals: 1/5
Dialogue: 1/5
Audio: 3/5
Fun: 3/5
Overall: 2/5
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