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Ninja Zombie is the hero we need right now. Shot on Super 8 film in Chicago by director Mark Bessenger, this action-horror hybrid tells the story of Jack—a young martial arts expert who is slain by evil cult leader Spithrachne, only to be resurrected as the vengeance-fueled Ninja Zombie. An explosion of high-kicking, guts-spilling splendor, Ninja Zombie lands at the intersection of 1980s Marvel Comics and The Toxic Avenger, a true Venn diagram of joy and ambition in underground filmmaking.
directed by: Mark Bessenger
starring: John Beaton Hill, Kelly Anchors, Michael Weaver
1992 / 87 min / 1.33:1 / English DTS-HD MA 1.0
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Overall rating: 4.8333335 / 5 from 18 reviews.
Review topics: ["release","friends","classic"].
"Ninja Zombie is exactly the kind of low-budget insanity the title promises, mixing martial arts, horror, and bargain-bin weirdness into something clumsy but oddly lovable. It is cheap, ridiculous, and barely held together, but that rough homemade energy is also what makes it fun."
"Exactly the kind of weird, low-budget chaos that boutique labels were made for"
"I love Bleeding Skull and I trust them with both my life and my movie-watching habits. This is another great release from them!"
"The best way to watch this is in a group setting. I was fortunate enough to see this in a theater with about 20 other folks and it was a blast!"
"Awesome film with great slipcover and gold"
"celebrating Partner Label month, this release from Bleeding Skull is pretty watchable. It was shot on Super 8 in and around Chicago back in the late 80s/early 90s, so it looks great if you're not a particular fan of SOV and prefer film. The plot? A kung fu dude who just proposed to his overacting girlfriend gets killed protecting his best "friend" from a crazy spider ninja cult, and the "friend" appreciates this sacrifice so much that he digs up the body and resurrects it for the sole reason of having his dead friend continue to protect him from the cult while also hitting on the guys overacting girlfriend. What a slob! Then we get ninja zombie training montages, rubber leeches, fire stunts, tennis-playing wizards, minor nudity and more overacting from the girlfriend, arm ripping, kung fu fighting, changing hairstyles within the same scene, and more intentional and unintentional fun. The plot is dumb, with our heroes willing to sacrifice their lives in order to keep the villain from getting something that really isn't all that evil. The movie is overlong at 87 minutes; they could've lopped off 15-20 minutes and made this a tight little mini-classic, but new directors always love their own footage; the end result is a bit of a slog but all of these super low-budget movies are a slog, so par for the course. There's a decent song and background music from a group called the Beat Monkeys, who I thought I'd heard of before but I think I just mixed them up with the Beat Farmers and the Blow Monkeys."
"Another great release from bleeding skull. Cool skip as well."
"Did it need an upgrade? Not really. Does this movie kick ass? Yes!"
"It’s a movie called Ninja Zombie, you’ll know whether it’s for you based purely on that alone."
"Always down for a movie that includes both Ninjas and Zombies"
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