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Bloodeaters
Toxic Zombies
USA 1980
produced by Charles McCrann, Scott Roberts for CM Prodctions
directed by Charles McCrann
starring Charles Austin (= Charles McCrann), Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend, Kevin Hanlon, Judith Brown, Pat Kellis, Roger Miles, Phillip Garfinkel, Bob Larson, Hariet Miller, Paul Haskin, John Amplas, Claude Scales, Dennis Graber, Debra O'Leary, Bob Hansen, Gerald Cullen, Ronald Kienhuis, Kim Roff, Craig Harris, James Hart, John Kuhl, Alyssa Allyn, William Shetterly, Debbie Link, James McGonigal
written by Charles McCrann, music by Ted Shapiro
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Because a bunch of hippie marihuana farmers have chosen some
uninhabited strip of land as location for their marihuana plantation and
the gouvernment doesn't like that much, agent Briggs (Paul Haskin) decides
to take a shortcut and have the area sprayed with some untested toxine -
with the result that not only the marihuana plants are killed but also the
hippies ... but they return as flesh-eating zombies. When Briggs learns
about this, he and his sidekick Phillips (John Amplas) mage a trip to the
region to contain the situation ... which mainly means killing all
witnesses. Meanwhile, benign gouvernment agent Tom (Charles Austin)
takes his wife (Beverly Shapiro) and brother (Phillip Garfinkel) to
roughly the same spot of land for a fishing trip - which is first turned
sour when they pick up two kids (Kevin Hanlon, Judith Brown) whose parents
were killed by the hippie zombies. Soon enough, they find themselves on
the run from the zombies, and when they bump into Briggs and Phillips,
that really worsens the situation - which is only improved when the evil
gouvernment agents and the hippie zombies start to kill one another off
... but unfortunately, they take out everyone but Tom and the little girl
(Judith Brown) in the process. Pot-growing hippie zombies - now
that sounds like a fun idea, really! Unfortunately, the film based on that
idea isn't half as original as it deserves to be, just a low budget
thriller that lacks each and any ambition to be any more than a rather
clumsy collection of your typical chase and zombie attack scenes, brought
to screen with as little creativity as possible. And that the characters
are all one-dimensional at best and the narrative build-up is off doesn't
help one bit, either. In all, a disappointment, even for bad movie
lovers.
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