good back-story, and good acting

Crappy film

A Major Disappointment

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There is a lot of brainless, motionless corpses in this film. I'm not talking about the zombies, here. I'm talking about the people who made this film. If you ever want to see a movie that fails in everything, this is that film. The people in the film didn't even wanted their names on it. Directed by Pericles Lewnes and written by Fester Smellman and Zoofeet. It has Alan Smithee's written all over the credits. The film makers could have at less, pick realism fake names than corny puns. This movie sets public perception of the Deep South back a few decades, but it was film in Maryland. Yes, Maryland has a lot of rednecks indeed. The movie starts out with an insane asylum with a survivor which kinda ruins the film. I guess, we know who lives, so why bother watching this movie. After dealing with that character, we get a flashback of a soldier delivery toxic waste to an army camp. Rather than paying attention to the road, he was talking to his dog while smoking a joint. Don't ask why his dog was allow to be in army jeep, no less, an army jeep with toxic waste! Who smokes a joint, delivering toxic waste? He offers his joint to the dog which cases him to crash and lose the barrel. While searching, he gets scare off by a fat local redneck. The fat one then finds the barrel and shows it to his fellow hicks trying it's a new still and begin brewing. The hooch comes out green and awful, but of course they drink it anyway. One of them, Ellie May, a gay hillbilly leaves to make the delivery run to town turning them into the living dead. A Homosexual redneck. Yes, nothing is safer to come out than the Deep South. Pa and sons drink the hooch and turn into redneck zombies. Meanwhile, some novice campers enter the woods to set up a camp. It's not long before the zombies find the campers and of course, the bloodbath begins. As many people have pointed out, the movie is pretty much intentionally bad with as much blatant weirdness as the filmmakers could stuff into it such in the case like the Tobacco Man that acts like an Ice Cream Man, but looks like Scarecrow from Batman Begins or Redneck Elephant Man Jason Voorhees. He's probably the best character in the film. It's just an example of Troma's anti-tobacco policies. The tobacco man was a big user of tobacco, and he's talking about himself when he talks about the big-city doctor cutting off half your face. Bitter about his own situation, the Tobacco Man is trying to make addicts out of everyone, so they can feel the pain he does. Or so I think, I could be wrong. Still, I have no clue what does he have to do with zombies. Honestly there is a lot of scenes that go nowhere. There's a delivery scene to the freelance butcher that makes no sense. A scene with a hitchhiker who shaves himself and try to shave the driver and take photos while driving. A scene with a drooling redneck and a duck taped girl sitting in the living room watching baby chickens on the TV. As much as the Hillbillies are badly written. The campers are just as annoying. There's the obsessive compulsive camper who changes his shirt all the time with different written words shirts all the time. Then another one pre-vet school camper Bob who freaks out and does an autopsy on one of their dead friends while hallucinating on acid. The sound and visual effects in this scene hurts my ears and eyes to the point, it might be bleeding. Bob is just an annoying comic relief character. He's like the real life Jar Jar Binks. The acting is atrocious. It is shot on video in incredibly poor quality. The makeup effects are incredibly primitive to the point that one of the zombies look like a blue smurf. Why is the blue smurf zombie even talking? Zombies don't talk. The editing is badly done as certain scenes have actors talking mid through their lines and suddenly it's cut to a new scene. Couldn't they have wait for the actor to finish his dialogue first! The writing is some of the worst, most obvious and most stupidly stereotypical I have ever run across. I don't understand why there is only sub-title in one side. Even the narrator text can't spell. I don't understand what tone this movie was going for, I mean it seems to be going for a parody in a few moments but it has an utterly bleak ending. Then again maybe I shouldn't question such trash, since the filmmakers obviously didn't think anything highly of it. Pass on this one, don't even rent unless you want to laugh at how bad it is, and even that might not work.

Redneck Zombies (1987) ** 1/2 (out of 4)With a title like this you know only Troma could be behind it. A barrel of toxic waste falls out of a military truck and is found by some rednecks who accidentally put it in their moonshine. They pass the stuff around town and soon all of the white trash are craving human flesh. Once again, those seeking high art are best to stay away from this thing but those who enjoy dumb entertainment should find plenty crammed into the 88-minutes of this thing. Like most Troma films this one here is an equally opportunity offender as just about every race gets made fun of and we get all sorts of humor ranging from gays to even baby zombies. The film certainly isn't mean spirited but what makes it so funny is that the filmmakers are obviously fans of the genre due to all the homages scattered throughout but they're also smart enough to know what type of film they're making. There's nothing worse than sitting through a bad, no-budget movie with filmmakers thinking they're making the next CITIZEN KANE. Here, on the other hand, we're treated to a bunch of dumb laughs and I must admit that I found the majority of the redneck humor funny. Take for example the redneck moonshiner and his three weird sons. One of them, Billy Bob, is turning gay and wants to be called Elle May. Another example is a trailer trash mom who allows her baby to play in the washer and gives him moonshine in his bottle. We get all sorts of dumb rednecks but also on hand are a wide range of campers who soon run into the zombies. The politically incorrect humor doesn't shy away from this group as we get a Mexican who does nothing but drink, a nerd constantly changing his clothes and then of course another dumb redneck. The gore level is shockingly quite high here as all of the murders are rather graphic and it's clear that the majority of the film's budget went towards special effects. The gore and flesh are constantly flowing and I must admit that this stuff is a lot better looking than the CGI crap we get today. The film pays homage to countless movies including a very funny take on the Hitch-hiker from THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE. We also get other goofs on the Three Stooges, THE WIZARD OF OZ< COOL HAND Luke, DAY OF THE DEAD and of course DELIVERANCE. Everything in this movie is technically bad but at the same time it's obviously done on purpose and in the end it succeeds in being entertaining. REDNECK ZOMBIES offers up exactly what the title says all done in Troma style.

A former co-worker of mine told me about this film a few weeks ago, and I bought the film just to see how interesting this film could be. The basic gist of the film is that a drum of nuclear waste falls off the back of US Army Jeep in the rural parts of Maryland. Some rednecks get the drum thinking that it is Moonshine (because they do not know how to read, or they are just stupid) and give it to people and become flesh eating zombies.The film itself is not meant to be a Oscar winner, but it falls under the "it's so bad it's good" group. The special effects are very cheap, but it still fun to watch. I could write a book on how corny and cheesy the lines in this movie are, but I am not going to do that. The lines in this film are really bad, but it's so funny at some of the stuff that is said in this film. The gore in this film is is at times over the top. There seems to be more gore in this film, then Dawn of the Dead.The acting is over the top at times. Mainly Bob, the pre-vet student is starts tripping while doing an autopsy on one of the zombies. Drinking Dude, how could I forget him. He always drinks, at out of no where pulls out bottles of liquor and drinks it.If you like Troma films, then watch this. If you like gore b flicks, then watch this. In my opinion this is one of the best b movies of the 80's.

This movie seems to get a lot of negative attention and I wonder why that is. I mean, it IS a Troma movie so I already had low expectations. The title of the movie is Redneck Zombies so that further lowered my expectations and when I read the plot I just couldn't stop laughing. Radioactive waste mistaken for moonshine by rednecks, they drink it and transform into zombies!!! I couldn't wait to watch this.The start opens with a parody of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and it is very funny. But then I realised this wasn't filmed normally, it was filmed on video. It looked so shoddy I realised to take this seriously would be stupid. The acting, music, dialogue, plot, direction and everything else was bad, just plain bad. I couldn't stop laughing at how bad and ridiculous it really was. And the gore was excellent and let me say, there is a lot of it. Do you expect any less from Troma?? 3/5.