Zombiethon

4.4
1986 1 hr 13 min Horror , Documentary

A compilation of trailers and previews from films having to do with zombies.

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Ensofter
1986/07/02

Overrated and overhyped

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VeteranLight
1986/07/03

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Abbigail Bush
1986/07/04

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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Bob
1986/07/05

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Woodyanders
1986/07/06

Made up of nothing but the "good stuff" (i.e., gore and nudity) from a handful of mostly European drive-in fright flicks, this perfectly entertaining compilation breezes along at a zippy 73 minutes and hence doesn't overstay its welcome. The wrap-around segments feature various attractive young ladies being chased into the Del Rey Theater in Los Angeles where a gaggle of undead folks played by people in lovably cheap, yet still funky rubber Halloween masks are watching zombie horror pictures on the big screen, thus giving director Ken Dixon an excuse to show clips from Lucio Fulci's "Zombie" (the underwater shark sequence and the legendary splinter through the eye set piece are naturally shown, plus nudity), "Zombie Lake" (lots of naked chicks), "The Oasis of the Living Dead," "Dr. Orloff's Invisible Monster" (looks hilariously crappy, plus more nudity), "Fear" with Laura Gemser (no complaints about that), "A Virgin Among the Living Dead" (cue even more nudity), and the gloriously ghastly "The Astro Zombies." The scenes in the Del Rey Theater with the zombies engaging in dippy comedic antics are a hoot, with the sidesplitting highlight occurring when the bumbling zombie projectionist accidentally cuts off one of his fingers while trying to load a reel into the projector. Paula Singleton, Janielle Lewis, Janessa Lester, Tracy Burton, and Karrene Janyl Caudle are all quite fetching as the hapless lasses who serve as zombie magnets. Good trashy fun.

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trashgang
1986/07/07

This isn't really a flick, there is a story involved but it's more about a compilation of existing zombie flicks. Was it worth watching? Yes, because for example from "Zombie" you will see the best shots, the zombie on the yacht, some nudity and the shark fighting with the zombie. But there is worse too, the fragments from "The Invisible Dead" are so bad, the zombies aren't frightening, the mos scary part is when the girl undresses in gratuitous style and shows her body for the camera, full frontal and you see how many pubic hair there could be on a pussy. Man, that's frightening, wake up with something like that laying beside you! And the worst zombie flick is in it too, worth watching, Zombie Lake, the zombies are just face painted in green and some really bad acting but the most important part of this flick is the nudity. So this flick here, Zombiethon, isn't really bad but it is a docu on zombies, one to see with your friends and lot of beer.

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Krazyzark
1986/07/08

This film is a horribly convoluted mish-mash of clips from various (mostly European) zombie films. That being said, if you enjoy any of the following three things, you may just love Zombiethon: 70s/80s zombie films, naked women, Family Guy style randomness.Zombiethon combines the campiness of both the zombie films and softcore nudity of 70s and 80s cinema, and even has one segment which seems to be a horror buff's Jeffery Dahmer inspired take on Family Guy style cutaways.Get a few friends, have some drinks and don't slack off on the smart-aleck comments, because this film is a riot!

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FieCrier
1986/07/09

Basically just a clip compilation, though with some original linking segments. The zombie movie clips themselves show a lot of zombies and female nudity, including (thanks to Zombie Lake and The Invisible Dead) a fair amount of full-frontal nudity. Most zombie fans will have seen all these movies (a mix of classic and pointless clips from them are used), so it's disappointing some more obscure zombie films weren't put in the mix. There are some more obscure movies, yet they aren't zombie movies, but I guess ZombieandEuroHorrorThon doesn't roll off the tongue as easily. And they would have had to make some linking segments in which Howard Vernon chases people into the theater or something.In the first of these linking segments, a woman dressed a bit like a schoolgirl is chased by a (rubber-masked) zombie in an overgrown garden, and takes refuge in an old movie theater... filled with zombies watching the zombie movie clips. This is followed by clips from Fulci's Zombie.In the next, a sunbather is confronted with an armored or robotic zombie of some kind, and she too runs to the theater. This is followed by clips from Zombie Lake.The third has a woman offering some dreamy narration over shots of crashing waves. Dressed in flowing white clothing, she goes down to the beach while a woman somewhere else uses a voodoo doll to revive a zombie, which picks up the woman in white and takes her to the theater. This is followed by clips from Oasis of the Zombies.The next segment has a woman with her young daughter in deserted streets that a zombie also wanders. Surprisingly, this does not conclude with them going to the theater. There's a title card with a quote attributed to Hieronimus A. Steinback from the 17th century, "For centuries, theologists, philosophers and poets have delved into the universe in search of proof of the existence of the devil. It would have been sufficient to look into the depths of their own souls." This is followed by clips from the somewhat rare Fear AKA L' Ossessione che uccide (1981). There are no zombies in it, but because it features the gorgeous Laura Gemser, no one should object too much. Actually, there is a zombie in it briefly, in what I gather (from a review of Fear by Mike Martinez of Kult Movie Maximus) is a dream sequence. An axe and a chainsaw get used in it, and there's a lame giant spider and some fake bats. I'd like to see this one now!The Fear clip returns us to the theater, where the zombie projectionist is having some difficulties and is making the zombie patrons impatient. When he finally gets things working again, there's clips from The Invisible Dead. This relatively little-seen movie is not a zombie flick either. Evidently Wizard Video, which produced Zombiethon, distributed this also and used their video box art for Invisible Dead to create the impression it was a zombie movie as well. This one seems like it could be amusing.The woman and her child show up in the theater just as some odd random images are showing. The child is not phased at all, hitting a zombie over the head with a pink balloon, and bothering it with a party whistle. When the projectionist gets things rolling (he's not very good) a title "The Pre-Halloween Late Show" comes up, followed by clips from A Virgin Among the Living Dead.After a brief shot of the zombies, we get clips from The Astro-Zombies. It's one of a number of really cheap horror movies John Carradine appeared in, copying Lugosi's career, seemingly. Director Ted V. Mikels directed a sequel to this 1969 movie of his in 2002! In the final segment, the zombies have a party in the theater. Supposedly Zombiethon features clips from White Zombie, but I seem to have missed those.

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