A group of rednecks finds a barrel of radioactive waste and uses it to brew moonshine. But drinking the nuclear waste makes them turn into flesh-eating zombies. That is into redneck zombies. At the same time some people from the city are on vacation and happens to get lost in the woods and unfortunately they run into all these zombies and has to fight for their lives to make it out alive.
Yet another Troma release and I was thinking the other day that it's kinda funny when you read reviews about Troma movies on the net as there are usually two different kind of versions.
First are the reviews by those who absolutely loves everything that Troma puts out and who gives their movies the highest ratings possible. And then you have those that are the total opposite and have mainly written the reviews just to critisise Troma's work. But this is not a bad thing as we need some balance right.
But once in a while you find those who neither love or hate Troma's productions and can like some movies while considering others to be crap. This is one of those reviews.
When it comes to Troma movies I would say that Redneck Zombies are not one of their best accomplishments, but it still has some fun stuff in it, not nearly enough to satisfy all the way though.
Thing is that this movie is supposed to be bad and it has everything going for it to make that happen. So a warning to those people who are thinking of renting this, don't expect any seriousness whatsoever. What you can expect is a super cheesy movie that is shot on video and has cheap jokes, horrible acting, is really low-budget and has bad special effects.
With that said you should know what you're getting yourself into. But if you're a fan of Troma and their other releases and like those then you should definitely give Redneck Zombies a shot too.
I thought the first 30 minutes of the movie was kinda fun to watch and very entertaining. Unfortunately after that things got a bit slower for a while and I remember feeling quite bored. It gets going again, but when it did I wasn't really up for it. Maybe if I would have watched it another time the rating could've been higher but for now it have to stay this way.
It has this "so bad it's good" feeling to it but didn't quite do it for me. Other than that expect a lot of Troma style gore and splatter and if you've seen other Troma releases before you should know what to expect. If you wanna watch a "good" Troma release I would recommend Tromeo & Juliet or maybe Terror Firmer among a few others.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Redneck County Rape
MOVIE YEAR: 1987
DIRECTOR: Pericles Lewnes
WRITING CREDITS: Zoofeet, P. Floyd Piranha
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
CAST: Steve Sooy, Anthony M. Carr, Keith Johnson
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 90 min
RATING: 3/10
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