After a slightly zombified woodsman shows up in the ER with a axe in his head, heís put under the care of an outcasted lonely nurse named Patsy Powers. After growing an affection for each other the woodsman bites Patsyís hand and she transforms from the girl no one notices to the zombie everyone wants. With the only person that knows what's going on being a old maintenance man will the rest of the hospital catch on before Patsy zombifies the entire staff?
The movie starts out at the engagement party of the studly Dr. Dox and his new fiancť Goodie Tueshuze which upsets our main character Nurse Patsy Powers because sheís jealous that Goodie has what she wants, that being Dr. Dox who we later find was Patsyís ex boyfriend from high school before he tossed his nerdy ways and became the popular doctor he ended up being.
Around the same time a woodsman is out in the forest cutting down a tree after kissing his axe, like an idiot, and pulls out something that ends up biting him and running away, and after a little time starts to zombify him. So he ends up arriving at the ER with an axe mysteriously implanted in his forehead and after a little surgery the axe is removed and heís placed in the care of Nurse Patsy. The two become quite fond of each other, him being a inbred redneck and her being a nerdy outcasted loser. So after a little Old Maid Patsy decides to call it a night but not before the zombified woodsman bites her hand which slowly transforms her from the loser she was to a buxom bombshell that the whole hospital wants to tap.
 
The only person that knows whatís going on is the maintenance man E.R. Kapotsky, an old miser of a man who just happens to have a book on zombies and how to kill them. Anyways itís not until she kills E.R. that Patsy gets her first taste of blood and just canít stop eating, so she goes to stealing body parts and patches of flesh from the corpses in the morgue to feed her appetite.
One day while looking for E.R. Goodie comes across his maintenance room which he uses for his room and finds the book on zombies then realizes that Patsy isnít what she appears and that she went from Zero to Hero in a matter of days. The only known way of killing a zombie, or at least by this movie, is to drive a knife made of 100% pure silver through the third eye of the zombie in the center of the skull so she goes off to get rid of her enemy Patsy. Will she succeed or will Patsy turn the entire Hospital into sex crazed zombie idiots?
Personally I though this movie was pretty clever, itís shot completely in black and white and is quite obviously dubbed from beginning to end, which isnít bad, just kinda strange. For the most part all the actors are first-timers which was cool because they did a fairly good job for being in such a cheesy flick. Overall this movie was cheesy but alright. The only things I didnít like was the fact that the zombies walked, talked and had sex and that the method of killing a zombie by driving a silver butter knife through their skull was kinda dumb. Either way I liked it.
This movie kinda gives off a 1950ís hoopskirt vibe but carries a good plot for the most part. If you like black and white dark comedies this one isnít that bad, just donít expect a lot of gore or seriousness, because this movie obviously doesnít even take itself remotely serious.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2003
DIRECTOR: Elza Kephart
WRITING CREDITS: Patricia Gomez, Elza Kephart
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
CAST: Anne Day-Jones, Samantha Slan, Karl Gerhardt
COUNTRY: Canada
RUNTIME: 80 min
RATING: 7/10
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