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.

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