REDNECK ZOMBIES
Shot on video. Need I say more?
"Anyone who is disappointed by this...should have known better than to rent it in the first place."
Such reads a review for Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. And it largely applies here, I suppose.
I rented this one because I'd heard it spoken of somewhat fondly...I don't remember by who, and I chanced across it and for some reason thought it'd be worth a look.
And being under the influence of crack seems to be the best excuse I can offer for this lapse in judgment.
Oh, this movie blows, all right. Sure, it's got some funny parts (most notably, a hilarious spoof of the hitchhiker in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, except here he's a mad barber) here and there...but overall, the humor in this one isn't even quite grade-school levlel. It's not even preschool level.
Remember the Simpsons episode where, for the talent show, Bart does an impersonation of Principal Skinner? It consists of hunching over, sticking a finger up his nose, looking dazed and saying "Duh, I'm Principal Skinner!" (the humor there, of course, was in the crowd's ecstatic reaction, and Bleeding Gums, a judge for the show, giving Bart a ten) I mean, it's all very nice and sub-retarded, but it doesn't actually make a joke. This kind of thing doesn't get very far.
But, like I said, it's got its moments, most of them provided by the black guy who plays the same role Miguel Nunez always plays, and looks so much that part one wonders if this isn't just coincidence.
But for God's sake, people, it's shot on videotape. It's like a porno movie without sex. And the closest thing to a sexy woman this movie has is the first casualty. And ninety minutes of people stumbling about saying "Uh...Jethro!" like it was a joke...
What the fuck was I thinking?