That’s right, Month of the Living Dead has come to Cold Fusion Video Reviews again — the ninth annual Month of the Living Dead, in fact. And the first two movies make me wonder why I started doing this in the first place, because they are in fact utter kaka:
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- 01: Brainathon ’99
- 02: Bangs'n'Whimpers
- 03: Post-Apocalypso
- 04: Review All Monsters
- 05: Pretty Mad Scientists
- 06: Tainted Love
- 07: Days of Future Past
- 08: Secret Santa
- 09: Catch a Throwing Star
- 10: Four-Color Features
- 11: Big Bugs
- 12: Fish With Bicycles
- 13: Go Go Go-Go Boys!
- 14: paLe IMITATIONS
- 15: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Roundtable
- 16: Whoa… Deja Vu.
- 17: Month of the Living Dead
- 18: B-Masters Beach Party
- 19: Kinji Fukasaku – The Man No Genre Could Tame.
- 20: Home Video Holocaust – The Video Nasties
- 21: Father Dearest: Who's Your Daddy?
- 22: So Sorry…
- 23: Back to the Well
- 24: Another Month of the Living Dead
- 25: The Ottoman Empire Strikes Back
- 26: Rubber Soul
- 27: Shhhhhh
- 28: Month of the Alternative Living Dead
- 29: On Time & Under Budget
- 30: These Kids Today…
- 31: Mea maxima culpa
- 32: Stingathon ’09
- 33: 10,000 B.S.
- 34: Foot Notes
- 35: Don’t Touch That Dial!
- 36: He Conquered the World
- 37: Secret Santa’s Revenge
- 38: At the Movies of Madness
- 39: They Might Be Giants
- 40: The Other Elizabeth Taylor
- 41: The Dark Guys of London
- 42: Falling Stars
- 43: To Be or Not To Be! (Pilot Error)
- 44: Teeth and Tentacles
- 45: Brunoween
- 46: Howl of the B-Masters
- 47: It’s Alive!
- 48: Bad, Black and Beautiful
- 49: Don’t Quit Your Day Job
- 50: B-Mentia 15
- 51: Quelle Horreur!
- 52: Carradine, Thou Wayward Son!
- 53: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
- 54: Pets Gone Wild
- 55: The Bad Place
- 56: From The Bible To Barbarella
- 57: A Fistful Of Pennies
- 58: Hello, Dolly
- 59: No, Not That One!
- 60: Dr Terror’s House Of Honours
- 61: WTF!?
- 62: In The Key Of B
- 63: The Forgotten Dawn Of Horror
- 64: The Most Dangerous Roundtable
- 65: Room For One More
- 66: Were-WHAT?
- 67: The China Anniversary Syndrome
- 68: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 2
- 69: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 3
- 70: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 4
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#1 by Joshua on October 8, 2009 - 4:04 am
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After nine years, isn’t it getting hard to find new zombie movies to watch?
Also this line:they are in fact utter kaka made me grin.
#2 by Nathan Shumate on October 8, 2009 - 5:43 am
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When I first started doing this, I thought I would easily scrape the bottom of the barrel in a decade. But we’ve had sort of a Zombie Explosion in the 21st century, and they’re still making them faster than I can watch them. (Four of the eight movies featured this year are screeners, if that tells you something.)
#3 by Thomas on October 8, 2009 - 6:00 am
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That we should all be very, very afraid?
#4 by Nathan Shumate on October 8, 2009 - 8:29 am
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Weren’t you anyway? It’s only prudent.
#5 by El Santo on October 8, 2009 - 9:08 am
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“The prologue takes place in the far-flung year of 2000 (which would indicate that the final release date of the movie was a wee bit delayed).”
I distinctly remember the closing credits to Zombie Bloodbath 2: Rage of the Undead promising the next installment in 1995.
#6 by Nathan Shumate on October 8, 2009 - 9:09 am
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My guess is that the main footage was shot on schedule, but the “stellar” FX took longer than expected.
#7 by KeithA on October 8, 2009 - 9:36 am
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After years of watching shot on video micro-budget horror, I have come to the conclusion that such movies do not exist to entertain; they exist to catalog the wide variety of awful haircuts frequently adopted by our fellow humans.
#8 by Nathan Shumate on October 8, 2009 - 9:42 am
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In that case, we probably could have stopped after Alien Agenda: Endangered Species gave us this example:
#9 by rjschwarz on October 8, 2009 - 11:09 am
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I had though the zombie wave was over, but I suspect the new Romero movie combined with Zombieland will create another wave.
#10 by Nathan Shumate on October 8, 2009 - 11:20 am
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I had thought that Zombieland, with it’s long studio gestational period, would come out just after the trend had died and become the Can’t Stop the Music of zombie movies. On the other hand, I thought Titanic would be the Heaven’s Gate of James Cameron’s career, so I am no Criswell.
#11 by rjschwarz on October 8, 2009 - 11:54 am
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Avatar looks to be the Heaven’s Gate of Cameron’s career, that is if the trailer is anything to go by. Giant blue Elves, what has he done…
#12 by KeithA on October 8, 2009 - 12:47 pm
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Avatar is going to be the world’s most technologically advanced remake of Pathfinder.
I think micro-budget zombie movies are here to stay. Since they are largely made by horror fans, the popularity of zombies among hoi polloi is irrelevant. As long as horror fans like them, they will continue to get made, alongside the eight billion “day in the life of a serial killer” type movies. Plus, if you are really excited about making a horror movie, but are really lazy about writing a script (as most microbudgeters are — they are aspiring directors or FX people, not aspiring screenwriters), zombie movies are a cinch. You need hardly any script at all, and no originality since “the cast seems to be having fun” is thrown about as some sort of airtight excuse for a movie being unoriginal and terrible. The current crop seems tragically unmotivated to produce anything but the worst. Say what you will about films like Dead Next Door and even Ozone — they are Dawn of the Dead compared to what came after them.
Still, it’s not a total wash out there. Hide and Creep was enjoyable, as was the bigger budget Undead. Stink of Flesh had its moments, as did Enter…Zombie King.
Todd Sheets is the Michael Wong of microbudget filmmakers. He’s been at it for so long that you’d think by sheer force of repetition, something he does would get better. But he’s as bad now as he was when he first started. And I say that a someone has seen all and owns most of Sheets’ movies, for some damnable reason.
But then, I also bought all of those Pendulum films box sets, which has cast me adrift on a sea of like 200 depressingly listless, terrible shot on video movies.
#13 by Thomas on October 8, 2009 - 9:19 pm
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“Giant blue Elves, what has he done…”
But they ride around on giant lizards! If nothing else, it should be great comfort food for people who are sick of waiting for the John Carter movie.
#14 by Thomas on October 8, 2009 - 9:48 pm
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Actually, I take that back. For some reason I was under the impression that this film involved the main guy astrally projecting himself across the gulf of space and possessing the body of a female warrior for no good reason. Now that I know the actual plot, I’m mostly just bitter about the wasted potential.
#15 by Nathan Shumate on October 9, 2009 - 5:59 am
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Yes. Like everyone else on the internet, I find myself saying, “I liked this better when it was called Dances With Wolves.”
#16 by The Mud Puppy on October 9, 2009 - 11:49 am
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Damn it, why must every character who shares my name always suck? Whenever I see a character named “Gavin” in a movie, I cringe because I know they’re either going to be some kind of sleazy psychopath or an annoying jackass.
#17 by Nathan Shumate on October 9, 2009 - 11:55 am
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And at first I was thinking, “There’s a character in here named ‘Mud Puppy’?”