The Zombie Army

I feel like if my friends and myself made more videos we would have ended up making things like this. It’s not amazing, but it’s so much fun. Multiple set pieces in the same place was so funny, but real for something like this. And a little **** action for the freaks!

A great deal of fun.

Exactly the sort of regional SOV insanity Saturns Core is great at rescuing. The abandoned-asylum setup, female combat unit, mad shock-therapy doctor and homemade zombie mayhem all sound like pure late-night cable fever. It is rough in the right way, and the disc gives this low-budget oddity the kind of attention it never would have received back in the tape days.

Alright

Nice no budget SOV Zombie flick, featuring some nasty gore effects. For an amateur production, directed by a local highschool drama teacher, this isn't all that bad. The acting is suprisingly alright too. Unfortunately the "plot" is too thin and boring to keep you entertained throughout the whole thing. There are several montage scenes that have music by a certain playing over it, and it does not work too well.

Picture quality is pretty good. I've seen worse from Saturn's Core. The extras are almost more interesting than the feature. The best featurette is an Interview with Indie legend J. R. Bookwalter, who distributed the movie in its original VHS release. The visual essay on asylums in horror films by Dr. Will Dodson is pretty cool, but very philosophical and a little bit pretentious to be honest. There's an audio commentary with Richard Mogg, who wrote a whole book on SOV horror movies from the 80s and 90s, which I actually own.