A bank robbery occurs
and one of the criminals robbing the
bank, Joe Davenport Jr. (Ron Vincent),
is shot and killed by the police.
His father, Joseph Sr. (Jack DeRieux),
goes to a cryogenic centre to attempt the
resurrection of his son and has the help
of a lady, Mary Hampton (Linda Blair),
who works at the cryogenic centre amd who
one late Halloween night, asks her
employer, Dr. Miller (Troy Donahue),
for his help to bring Joe jr. back to
life.
A thunder storm occurs while two of the
sergeants, Vince (Dan Haggerty)
and Mark (Michael Jacobs), are
working graveyard shift and the power is
knocked out suddenly.
The lightning strikes down at the storage
facility, awakening the frozen clients
who are all turned into homicidal
zombies.
A group of them attack both Vince and
Mark.
Mark is eaten alive by a bunch of them
and Vince tries to find a way to stop
them.
Meanwhile, Mary and Joseph upon their
return to the center are being chased by
the zombies and discover at the same time
that there is no escape from them.
The zombies begin tp attempt a killing
spree of all the employees at the
cryogenic center.
One of those
cheesy zombie film version's of George
A. Romero's; and also I think this
film was a tribute to his work. It's okay
to watch but not a smash hit zombie flick
by any means.
Still it's worth it to watch for what it
is if you like badly made for video,
horror movies like this one.
The actors do an
okay job but of course we can't forget
about former scream queen Linda Blair
freaking out while being attacked by the
living dead and she very much focuses on
her character well into the film.
We also have former 50's heartthrob Troy
Donahue as the evil Doctor as he was
another cast member I enjoyed too. Well
he gets what is coming to him.
But you gotta love former Grizzly
Adams TV star Dan Haggerty as
he is extremely outgoing in his role as a
sergeant and watching through the film
you hope he survives.
A woman gets naked
making out with a tough guy and one of
her breasts is exposed as well as a full
body shot of her back and butt while she
is taking a shower.
One of the people
at the cryogenic labs is operating on a
corpse by taking the inside organs, like
the heart and kidneys, out of the bodies.
Various zombies are butchered as well.
There's also a decapitated head and
dismembered hand.
There is also some cannibalism of a
corpse.
Two directors
named Deland Nuse and Jack
A. Sunseri worked on this one for
some strange reason but again Lloyd
Kauffman and Michael Herz
work as directors together in most of
their Troma Team flicks.
Deland and Jack seem to be very rusty in
their work making it look like a typical
B-grader with directing their actors and
with the whole plot but they do succeed
and make the zombies look convincing with
their shots of them coming in for the
kill.
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