{"id":34015,"date":"2020-10-23T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=34015"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:43:30","slug":"suffering-through-the-zombie-bloodbath-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/23\/suffering-through-the-zombie-bloodbath-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffering Through the \u201cZombie Bloodbath\u201d Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The \u201cZombie Bloodbath\u201d trilogy is the sheer apex of garbage zombie movie fodder. It topples even “Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection.” The trilogy is something you\u2019ll be forgetting minutes after, as only an hour after viewing these I can\u2019t truly recollect the plots. There\u2019s really no sense of arc, continuity, or overall cohesive storytelling here, as the zombies take center stage in films where characters are a sheer after thought. In the first Zombie Bloodbath<\/strong> from 1993, at a remote radioactive plant, its workers suffer the outbreaks of a chemical spill which turns them into\u2014what else? Zombies.<\/p>\n

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The workers then turn into the rotten flesh eaters and spread out onto a small town where a brother and sister and their family attempt to escape them. Set your remotes on fast forward, as the film garners some atrocious acting, pretty cheesy direction, and the special effects which, quite honestly, aren\u2019t too bad. Director Todd Sheets\u2019 attempts to gross out audiences won\u2019t work with people that have seen about everything else in the horror genre, but with what he supplies \u201cZombie Bloodbath\u201d is not too shabby in the effects department.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Though, I can always keep low budgets, and low rate actors in consideration, there\u2019s just no excuse for the \u201cZombie Bloodbath\u201d series. How can you enjoy a movie that features a distracting moment with modern flashlight in a sequence set in 1945? Zombie Bloodbath 2<\/strong> from 1995 is a film I couldn\u2019t really understand too well for the fact that the story not only made no real sense, it was just so confusing. Establishing the basis for a satanic cult, and psychotic family in 1945, we then head into modern times where a group of friends stop after their tire has a flat. They enter into an old roadside farmhouse, and before they know it, they\u2019re bring terrorized by the very hillbillies we saw in the beginning.<\/p>\n

It gets rather incoherent to the point where I could barely understand what I was suffering through. In all seriousness, director Todd Sheets really does attempt to bring us one of a kind zombie films, with unusual plots attached, but he tends to fail in the trap of absolutely tedious writing, the absolutely nonsensical premises, and the atrociously bad acting. Director Sheets seems to have enlisted the help of friends and family, and breaks Joe Bob Briggs\u2019 golden rule: Don\u2019t hire friends and family for your movies when there\u2019s always an aspiring actor hungry for work if you look hard enough. Case in point Zombie Bloodbath 3<\/strong> from 2000, an interesting but altogether rather idiotic horror movie that\u2019s, sadly, the last in this putrid trilogy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the future, in an attempt to stop the zombies, a group of military workers lead the walking dead into a space shuttle through an abandoned mine shaft. Being rid of them, they lock the zombies in and launch them into space, where they\u2019re sucked into a black hole. They then end up in present time. In present time, we join a group of friends in detention where they\u2019ve decided to play hooky. And wouldn\u2019t you know it? The group of friends end up drifting to the mine shaft that so happens to be along the school premises. Talk about bad architectural planning.<\/p>\n

Curiosity eventually strikes, and a la \u201cReturn of the Living Dead II,\u201d the dead infection spreads among the individuals, the terror reigns after school. Guts are munched, and one particular teacher has his intestines ripped out, only to come back as a coherent zombie intent on revenge on the students that mocked him. The entire trilogy is really rather tough to sit through, but Todd Sheets seems to have taken much of his own minimal skill and anxiously attempted to muster up some originality, suspense, and atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Swing and a miss.<\/p>\n