Grave Robbers! Black Masses! Indian Guru! Masked Murderer! Voodoo Doll! Ritual Sacrifice! Evil Twin! Chicken Decapitation! Gleeful Undead! & a horned Satan who drinks blood from a golden chalice!!! All to a 1972 lounge soundtrack!
This movie is totally, awesomely hilarious! The makeup is pretty OK (except that Satan stole the lead's eyebrows!) and the costumes and even effects are unexpectedly good, but the soundtrack is mostly pretty inappropriate (my favourite example of this is when the music is all relaxed jazz while one guy gets an axe to the face). The film quality is pretty much what you expect: mediocre to bad. I won't bother to summarize the plot because, unlike many of the bad seventies movies I've been watching lately - and this is surely their queen - the plot is unusually clear (apart from the role of the bus driver. What the hell was that guy up to, and how did he know anything about the secret voodoo plot anyway?? ...I also suspect that the guru Krishna must have some kind of hypnotic gaze, as the only explanation why the lead would fall into bed with him; I'm afraid the lure of the exotic is entirely mitigated by the pudginess and boot polish). But it has some fabulous scenes, my favourite by far being the initial Satan dream sequence. It has a meat factory scene and while I'm sure PETA and the SPCA would have some severe reprimands for the producers about the whole chicken sacrifice deal, you've gotta admire their chutzpah in being that 'authentic' (although obviously anyone who is sensitive to these things at all will hate it... however I doubt you will be watching something called "Revenge of the Zombies" if you are that sensitive!).
I love that the 'good guys' have a portrait of the queen on the wall to prove their britishness! - their accents are totally not enough convince alone!
Favourite Quote: "You will be food for our Lord, Satan! He is waiting, waiting!!!"
This movie is clearly terrible, but I completely loved it. It is total schlock but I found the way it keeps changing its focus and bringing in new themes engaging rather than confusing or stilted. You should definitely NOT watch this if you don't 'get' old, bad horrors, or if you are not prepared to see a chicken getting its head cut off (it's actually not that bad - no closeups or violent blood spray, the cutthroat scene is more gory), but otherwise it is really surprisingly enjoyable to watch, especially with a few drinks and low expectations. Come on, you know how bad it's gonna be as soon as you see the blood-dripping title! Get ready to mock and be shocked.
This movie is totally, awesomely hilarious! The makeup is pretty OK (except that Satan stole the lead's eyebrows!) and the costumes and even effects are unexpectedly good, but the soundtrack is mostly pretty inappropriate (my favourite example of this is when the music is all relaxed jazz while one guy gets an axe to the face). The film quality is pretty much what you expect: mediocre to bad. I won't bother to summarize the plot because, unlike many of the bad seventies movies I've been watching lately - and this is surely their queen - the plot is unusually clear (apart from the role of the bus driver. What the hell was that guy up to, and how did he know anything about the secret voodoo plot anyway?? ...I also suspect that the guru Krishna must have some kind of hypnotic gaze, as the only explanation why the lead would fall into bed with him; I'm afraid the lure of the exotic is entirely mitigated by the pudginess and boot polish). But it has some fabulous scenes, my favourite by far being the initial Satan dream sequence. It has a meat factory scene and while I'm sure PETA and the SPCA would have some severe reprimands for the producers about the whole chicken sacrifice deal, you've gotta admire their chutzpah in being that 'authentic' (although obviously anyone who is sensitive to these things at all will hate it... however I doubt you will be watching something called "Revenge of the Zombies" if you are that sensitive!).
I love that the 'good guys' have a portrait of the queen on the wall to prove their britishness! - their accents are totally not enough convince alone!
Favourite Quote: "You will be food for our Lord, Satan! He is waiting, waiting!!!"
This movie is clearly terrible, but I completely loved it. It is total schlock but I found the way it keeps changing its focus and bringing in new themes engaging rather than confusing or stilted. You should definitely NOT watch this if you don't 'get' old, bad horrors, or if you are not prepared to see a chicken getting its head cut off (it's actually not that bad - no closeups or violent blood spray, the cutthroat scene is more gory), but otherwise it is really surprisingly enjoyable to watch, especially with a few drinks and low expectations. Come on, you know how bad it's gonna be as soon as you see the blood-dripping title! Get ready to mock and be shocked.