Tag: Zombies

The Plague of the Zombies (1966) – By Baron Craze

Hammer Film studios started to suffer from two major issues first the dullness of their stories and that lead to a lack of return on investments, which effected heavily trimmed budgets. However, a few skillful artists would deliver some strong performances and give fans a glimmer of gothic horror. Hence director John Gilling, who already…


Zombie Undead (2010) – By Baron Craze

The sub-genre of horror films, which involves zombies, has truly hit an oversaturated level, there are television shows with spin-offs to almost weekly releases of a new story involving zombies, while normally this influence seen in the genre appears positive the outcome finds too many rotting corpses of production. Many filmmakers have tried to find…


Zombie Evolution: The Understanding of the Film Species: Part 1 – By Baron Craze

There have been several articles on the topic zombie flicks, the culture surrounding them, the influence of them and the reflection of their possible existence to our philosophy of society, asking the appropriate questions of revolving around psychology and theology. One always wonders about mortality, if anything happens to life after death, and for the…


Decay (2012) – By Baron Craze

Decay truly adapts and takes on the independent film market from a new angle with first time director and writer Luke Thompson, who is actually an Accelerator Physics PhD, but decided to put his own money into this ultra-low budgeted production using a slightly more intriguing plot, however battling the same creations – zombies. First,…


The Dead Inside (2011) – By Baron Craze

When one thinks about a true niche sub-genre in horror, the rarest gems fall into horror musicals, namely the most common The Rocky Picture Show [1975]. However, others existed, such as Little Shop of Horrors (the original and remake). Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [2007], The Nightmare before Christmas [1993] just to…


Toxic Zombies (1980) – By Baron Craze

This is a special review which I have longed to do for some time, but not in the intended manner that many people would have expected, rather first I needed to find a clean copy to view and thanks to tubitv.com that finally happened. Secondly, it’s the reason behind doing this review, you see upon…


The Terror Experiment (2010) by Baron Craze

Director George Mendeluk, most known for made-for-television projects, and most recent horror film, Forever 16 [2013] works with D. Todd Deeken’s screenplay bringing forth a high rise zombie film, at nearly 80-minutes (including the credit scroll), which is 10-minutes under the normal scale for horror features, entitled The Terror Experiment. The film contains numerous b-movie…


State of Emergency (2011) – By Baron Craze

Director Turner Clay (Mischief Night (2014)) brings a new twist into a highly evolving zombie sub-genre as a new generation of filmmakers of indie films try to navigate the genre traditions, rules, and legions of fans, for these creatures while focusing attention on the survivors. That is exactly what State of Emergency does, it avoids…


Redcon-1 (2018) – By Baron Craze

In the genre of zombies there’s quite a bit to explore for either the average horror fans, or those dedicated to seeing everything involving the undead, and while the films often have the struggle for survival, there’s rising attention given to the more combative action-horror driven flicks. Director and screenwriter Chee Keong Cheung took fistfuls…


Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010) – By Baron Craze

Screenwriter Benjamin Hessler marks his debut with this film, Rammbock assisted by director Marvin Kren (both would later re-team for the horror movie Blood Glacier [2013]) in this 2010 production billed as the first zombie film made in Germany so this obviously falls into the grouping of other zombie movies, aside from the setting and…