A
young Governemnt secret agent named
Malcolm Grant (Jose Prendes) awakens
with
amnesia in a post-apocalyptic world in
permanent darkness and overrun by the
living dead and it's also dark all
through the hours as the gates of hell
have blown open.
To find answers to his hidden in his
concious he teams up with an army led by
a man named General Morton (Richard
Lynch) and to stop the zombies and
finding the source to do so.
However, Malcolm realises that Morton is
the devil controlling the zombies and his
wife Marguerite (Debbie Rochon) is also
working with Morton and is trying to kill
Malcolm.
Malcolm has a little help with a spirit
corpse named Elli Kroger (Linnea Quigley)
whom he has encountered a long time ago
when she was alive and helps him survive
being eaten alive by the zombies.
Although the sound
quality was not that good and you could
tell it wasn't always a closed set cause
you could see some cars driving by when
the area was supposed to be deserted and
overrun by zombies, this was overall a
well-done film with it's solid good
storyline and a tribute to George A.
Romero's Living Dead flicks
even if at first the story looks
pointless, boring and out of shape. The
film isn't for everyone's tastes though
as there's been many that hated it and
has seen this type before.
The door opened for a sequel that was
going to be titled The Corpse
That Loved Me but sadly it never
saw the light of day since this film was
fun to watch and I wanted to see more of
it.
The acting is very
good and it starred many b-film actors
that were in T&A films with a weak
plot and proved to show their stuff in
this flick that tried to focus on a good
plot.
Richard Lynch really knew his
part well and is the best actor as he
played a demon controlling these zombies
proving to make his part as a believeable
leader.
Jose Prendes who wrote and
directed this piece played the main 007
type of chracter too. His writing is
better than his acting but he is not
terrible but needed to improve a bit on
his character.
Brinke Stevens really pulled it
off well as a scientist in the film and
knew her part inside out as found this
film to be one of her best performances
and the best actress too.
Debbie Rochon does an amazing
job in the film as the evil wife and
portrayed her part perfectly. I found
this one to be her best performance ever.
Bill Perlach came across well as a
tough preacher trying to survive this
whole mess.
Linnea Quigley was impressive in
her supporting role as a dead person
appearing now and then and seems to have
a knack to her part.
Don Calfa was another good
supporting role showing great character
to his part as another ghost.
Felissa Rose however lacks in
her part as someone who was bitten by a
zombie. Good thing she was only in it for
5 minutes.
There is a bit of
gore in the film like some arms on the
ground that were chewed apart by zombies
and a leg too.
Gina spits out blood before she dies.
Jose Prendes
does his best to direct this piece while
he is starring in it but alot of it is
very rough.
He does a narration where it's black and
white doing his everyday stuff as you
wonder what is the point of all this.
There is a good shot of him diving in a
swimming pool to retrieve a child's shoe.
A good shot on him present day in color
when he awakens from his convertible and
the camera pans back to see where he is.
There are good shots on zombie's walking
towards him as he seems to do well with
his gun by shooting some of them.
However, when he enters some sort of a
warehouse he does some punching and
karate kicking on the other zombie's
which looks extremely poor.
Brinke Stevens does well by
awakening Prendes from his
unconciousness and acting nicely to him.
Richard Lynch shows nice expressions
and sarcasm when he has a dialogue with Prendes
about what was unleashed.
We have a good shot on Prendes
taking a shower and Linnea Quigley
coming up all bloodied and opening the
shower door to speak to him which looks
almost hauntingly but not quite due to
the lack of the budget the film carried.
There's a nice and cold dialogue between Debbie
Rochon and Prendes in the
morning as Rochon pretends to
act like a nice wife by serving him
breakfast yet is untrusting. They have a
fairly good and mild struggle when she
tries to stab him with a knife that is
inside a fake lipstick bottle.
There's also a nice black and white
flashback scene with Prendes grabbing
Quigley and knocking her unconcious with
a cloth over her face. Their dialogue
after that when she's tied up looked
fairly convincing when he demands answers
from her. However, he doesn't come across
all that well like he is supposed to.
There's a moment when he slaps her and it
looks terribly phony during his
questioning towards her.
We also see a good and shocking camera
shot on Quigley bloodily dead in
a bathtub as well as another good shot on
her screaming wildly after being
attacked.
Conrad Brooks was good with his
madman actions when he whacks Prendes
with a shovel over and over although when
he first knocks him to the ground looked
quite phony.
In present day we have a good shot with
both Prendes and supporting
actress Trista Favor when she
tries to come on strongly hoping to
seduce him as it does give a fairly good
007 impression.
There's a good and dark setting with Prendes
having a dialogue with supporting actor
Don Calfa in a car.
A perfect shot on Bill Perlach
pointing a rifle at the camera when he
opens his door to his home which is of
course set on Prendes and Rochon
in the story.
Rochon seems to do well with her
dialogue on supporting actress Felissa
Rose when she is slowly turning into
a zombie but looks phony when she is
strangling her and Rose of
course is way too melodramatic when this
happens. However, Rochon shows
nice menacing looks.
Prendes looked good pointing a gun
at Stevens and Favor
when he knows what is going on.
Another great flashback moment with Prendes
when he has a dialogue with Lynch
on explaining who he is and really knew
how to act outrageously mad while Prendes
grows such angry expressions.
Quigley stands out well when she
gives her speech to both Prendes
and Perlach's characters on what
to do to try and survive and put an end
to Morton's evil deeds.
Rochon shows a nice stunned look
after she is stabbed in the back.
There's a perfect moment with Stevens
and supporting actress Rachel Chin
battling it out with one another when Chin
taunts her by saying she is a wimpy
hitter and Stevens really seems
to put her might with her aggression
although the physical contact needed
improvement.
Prendes has a brawl with supporting
actor Kwame Riley as he tries to
make it again a 007 type of action
sequence yet it is sloppy and sinks
badly.
Quigley presented herself
perfectly trying to come in for the
rescue with her appearances in a few
scene's towards the end as it was
impressive.
The music for this film was
by Jose Prendes and Thomas
Park as they have some rough
synthesizer playing and interesting
techno music too.
There is also a songtrack of the theme
song performed by Cynthia Duvall
and Jim Potts which sounds
incredibly cheesy and the singing is a
bit off.
Mr.
Fairbrass: It's a wondeful day
for a murder!
Nurse
Tittwanna: Y'know I think
Grant's gay
Dr. Emily Thesiger: What makes
you say that?
Dr.
Emily Thesiger: (After
killing Pvt. Lee with a hard punch)
Hard enough for you bitch?
Pvt.
Crisp: She killed Lee sir!
Dr. Emily Thesiger: She
hurt my feelings
Dr.
Emily Thesiger: I tried to warn
you but he and the bitch were always
around
General Morton: Aint life a
bitch
Father
James Mason: I just love family
reunions
Dr.
Emily Thesiger: You're
disgusting!!!!
General Morton: This for someone
who used to sacrifice goats for me?
Dr. Emily Thesiger: I was young
and stupid
General Morton: Right on both
accounts
Elli
Kroeger: You owe me one (Uses
her powers to free all Dr. Emily
Thesiger, Father James Mason and Malcolm
Grant from being tied up for zombies)
..... (Hands Malcolm Grant a gun to shoot
a zombie) Make it two
Malcolm Grant: No problem
(Shoots the zombie)
Elli
Kroeger: Hey, make it three
Malcolm Grant: (spots some guns
on the ground to shoot more zombies): You
bet!
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