Since I didn't bother with a movie last night, and given that I'm all sportsed out until Sunday, I decided to go back into the already seen section of my DVD collection. Today's "masterpiece" is another Andreas Schnaas film. Schnaas, as you remember, directed Zombie Doom aka Violent Shit III. Today is a look at an earlier work of his called Zombie 90: Extreme Pestilence. Those fortunate enough (or unfortunate, depending on your point of view) had this movie included with the Zombie Doom release.If you're looking for a story line, it is that a plane carrying a vaccine for the AIDS virus crashes in some forest and the vaccine causes people exposed to it to turn into zombies. It is up to Dr. Burns, who was Dr. Senius in Zombie Doom and who for some reason, sounds like a jive talking black guy, and his assistant Dr. Simon (who sounds like an effeminate version of the Pilsbury Doughboy) to stop the zombie invasion. The story line is simple enough to allow for lots of zombie action and violence, which is all this movie is for the most part. As far as the violence is concerned, there is one guy that gets stranded in the forest and gets cut in half by a chainsaw wielding zombie. Another one has a baby (obviously a doll, so don't write complaint letters) getting ripped apart while the mother gets decapitated by what looks like an ax, but somehow looks like the head was put on a tee and knocked off by a baseball bat. The voice dubbing is obviously done strictly for comedic purposes, with a highlight being "Jimi Hendrix" and "Jim Morrison" somehow getting involved in a German film. There are also editing issues, as in one scene, a guy gets cut in half by the chainsaw and following that, the chainsaw wielding zombie is just waving the chainsaw around, all clean. There are a lot of issues with this film, many of which actually inspire laughter, but the entire purpose of this film: gore and lots of it. A sense of humor is a must if you plan on sitting through this movie.
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