Hard Rock Zombies (1985) Review With Trailer!
September 23rd 2010 18:49
It's no secret that sometimes the story behind a movie if often more
entertaining than the movie itself, and sometimes the goofiest movies happen when a film maker has nothing to loose. Krishna Shah is an Indian American screen writer, who made a number of American films in the 70's and 80's his magnum opus was to be “American Drive in” a movie based around a number of goings-on at . . .you guessed it . . .an American drive in. Of course, that movie isn't the one I'm reviewing. To avoid expensive licensing fees Shah decided to make a short 20-minute zombie film to show on the drive in while screening, just some stock footage to be in the background. Shah realized that he actually had enough budget to turn this little bit of second-unit footage into a full length movie, and one a whim he decided to make “Hard Rock Zombies”.
The story of “Hard rock Zombies” is so odd it's almost immaterial. An 80's hard rock back plays a gig in a small southern California town populated by rednecks, Nazis, werewolves and perverts. They're killed during their own concert, and are brought back to life to fight off a zombie apocalypse set in motion by none other than Adolf Hitler himself. Oh, and one more feature that makes this movie awesome: Zombie Nazi Dwarfs, you can't loose with that. As goofy as this movie is, it seems very self-aware. It knows just how weird and goofy it is, and it celebrates that weirdness in every scene. It's not a creepy, spooky Zombie film that takes itself to seriously, it's a quirky fun b-movie that practically makes fun of itself.
I've seen a lot of bad movies, I mean a lot of bad movies. Hell, I've even been in a bad movie. This movie, is possibly the worse movie I've ever seen. But it's not bad in a bad way, it's bad in a fun, campy, goofball kinda of way. It's like a youtube video of a guy wrecking a motorcycle, sure it's bad for the guy but the rest of the world can laugh at it. Only a movie this goofy can give you an undead rock band thwarting Hitler, a Zombie dwarf eating itself, and a Werewolf married to Hitler. A movie this absurd shouldn't even exist, but it does, and that makes a guy like me smile. Watch this movie with friends, the more people your with the more you'll laugh. It's a movie that just about happened by accident and if you enjoy bizarre, dark humor you need to see “Hard Rock Zombies” at least once.
These guys totally rip off Dethklok
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Comment by Bryn
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That looks like Bobby Kimball on lead! Ha! Where in the hell did you find this??!
Comment by Joshua the Samurai
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