The debate for Friday The 13th VI: Jason Lives, Zombie Movie Or Not?, received 11 comments and 11 non-repeating votes. With 0 votes for and 11 votes against being a Zombie Movie, as far as this site is concerned, Friday The 13th VI: Jason Lives is NOT a Zombie Movie.
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We were all looking forward to getting our mitts on some of the new Night of the Living Dead Mego style toys at last weekend’s Flashback Weekend, but unfortunately they were not available. Scott from FearWerx wrote us to say:
Greetings!
Scott from FEARWERX dropping by with an update about the MEGO Night of the Living Dead figures.
A small setback with the manufacturers in China have pushed the release date for these toys back to October.
So the bad news is that eager fans will have to wait.
The good news is that they’ll be here in time for Halloween!
And thank you for the Zombie Reporting Center for giving these toys a write-up.
Keep up the good work!
I’m glad to hear they will still be available, though I am more than a little bummed I wasn’t able to get the “Graveyard Zombie” figure signed by Bill Hinzman!
Poise, beauty, and BRAAAAAIIIIINS - these girls had it all. Flashback Weekend’s annual Zombie Pinup Contest was a fun event that showed that beauty really is only skin deep (rotting, stinking skin that is). You can view our photos of the event here.
It was a parade of fear yesterday as Chicago horror legend Svengoolie hosted the Flashback Weekend Costume Contest. Our very own Jef Porkins did a stunning job with his own makeup but sadly it was a man in a monkey suit (Planet of the Apes, specifically) that won Best in Show. You check out all our pics from the contest here.
This month’s contest question was: What one item in your living room would you use to fend off a zombie attack? We had 22 responses and out of those, we liked Steve’s answer best! Steve wrote:
Not much in the living room so I would have to take off one of my socks and fill it with the bazillion TV remotes I have lying around. I would then swing this around and victoriously crush that Zombie’s skull!!
Congratulations Steve!
FINALLY, after a long drive, traffic jams, and celebrity sightings, our booth is open!
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| From Flashback Weekend… |
In Redneck Zombies, a family of moonshiners acquire a barrel of “chemical warfare nuclear waste” and convert it into a moonshine still. One sip of this toxic cocktail turns them into zombies, but not before one of the brothers starts his deliveries to the entire town. A group of suburbanite campers, with an endless cache of witty T-shirts, happen upon the still (and a few zombies) and quickly assess the situation: toxic moonshine has turned the town into redneck zombies! Who will be left and what will be left of them?
Redneck Zombies is rife with stereotypes to keep the laughs rolling, but instead kept my eyes rolling. All throughout the film there are little scenes where they pay homage to films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Deliverance in a really ham-fisted way. It was as if they wanted to give back to the movies that had set up all the redneck stereotypes that they were now exploiting.
The actors in Redneck Zombies were like high school drama students acting out a cartoon. They didn’t quite have the chops to deliver the Kevin Smith-esque “witty” dialogue, but that doesn’t stop them from trying. Luckily they die one by one and spare you the agony.
The zombies were pretty simple from the make-up standpoint. They used gray make-up with black around the eyes and a bit of gelatin to give it texture. The last 30 minutes of the movie was an all out gore fest where the special effects team used every trick in the book to make the bloodiest ending possible.
The quality (or lack thereof) is not surprising considering given this is a Troma Film, but I can’t necessarily recommend this movie for fans of the zombie genre. It’s supposed to be a comedy, but I think it would be easier to laugh at it rather than with it. It might be entertaining with a friends and beer, but other than that, Redneck Zombies is just another bad zombie movie.
Zombie fans who are NOT going to be in Chicago to visit us this weekend at Flashback Weekend but are in the Portland Maine area should definitely check out the annual Zombie Kickball event. If combining the words “zombie” and “kickball” doesn’t do it for you, I don’t know what will.
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