Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

A Masterpiece!

A different way of telling a story

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE is one of those cheap and cheerful B-flicks of the 1980s, amusing enough in concept but difficult to sit through when it comes down to it thanks to the incessantly cheesy and stupid execution. We have the team at Code Red to thank for giving it a new HD lease of life in the 21st century. The story sees the posturing good guy Jon Mikl Thor killed in a hit and run accident and returning from the grave as the cheesiest zombie ever to get revenge on the teen gang who ran him down. Adam West contributes his own brand of acting as a cop and there's a role for Tia Carrera, who would have something of a Hollywood career in the 1990s. Generally, though, this is cheap and derivative, referencing and copying bits from THE TERMINATOR at times ("nice night for a walk") but not even coming close; laughable is what it is.

This film has one of those misleading titles, kind of like the Italian film Zombie Holocaust. Both titles lead one to assume that there is going to be hordes of the living dead terrorizing a community or something and generally doing zombie stuff. In that film, you got very few zombies and they didn't really do anything much. In this one, you get like one or two zombies, but at least they do some terrorizing. However, this comes in the form of revenge rather than the living dead wanting to feast upon the flesh of the living. I saw this film on Mystery Science Theater 3000, but I am sure it has probably made the rounds on cable stations back in the day. One of those films that have one or two actors of note and a really cheap budget that mostly went to the one or two actors.The story has a man killed while protecting a young girl from two hoodlums. Flash years later and the son of that man is playing baseball and doing okay. Unfortunately, after stopping a robbery he is ran over by a gang of preppy teens that really know how to break the rules! Well, the mother has already lost her husband so she is understandably upset now that her son too, has passed away. She gets the woman that her husband helped so long ago and is a voodoo priestess to resurrect her son so that he may get his revenge on his killers! Meanwhile, a young cop struggles with the case of the teens being killed while his captain seems to know more than he is letting on! This made for a rather funny episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. When this episode first appeared, Adam West, who was in the movie, actually hosted a marathon of MST3K episodes that led up to the premier of this film on Comedy Central. Back in the day, MST3K literally put Comedy Central on the map and they used the show often to keep its viewership, kind of makes no sense that they canned it. The episode though was funny, my favorite joke being when the bat wielding zombie was chasing the blond and Servo goes, "George Romero's, Casey's at bat!" So, in the end a bad film that was notable because of Adam West's appearance and I guess Tia Carrere. Though she was kind of famous mainly because Michael Myer's was apparently obsessed with her. She was not really all that good at acting, your basic horror level talent and she was an absolutely dreadful singer. She probably would have done good in adult films though. The zombie effects, what little there were, were done okay as they did manage a good effect at the end with the zombie melting. And despite what Mike and the bots thought, Motorhead's Ace of Spades is an awesome song and one hell of a way to kick off a movie. It was my favorite part!

This was indeed a zombie nightmare! Being a zombie fan, then I basically devour (no pun intended) just about anything with zombies. Usually what is unearthed is bad, which is a shame, because the zombie genre is flooded with releases that are unwatchable and laughable attempts at being movies.Such was also the case with "Zombie Nightmare". In fact, it was actually so bad that I had to turn it off, and didn't make it through to the end.The story in the movie is about a group of young kids who accidentally run down young aspiring baseball guy. Without stopping to check if he is alright, the group just speeds off into the night. Griefstruck, the mother of the victim gets help from a voodoo woman, who brings back the dead son from the dead. He returns as an reanimated zombie who sets out to seek revenge on those who killed him.It was hard to believe that this movie was from 1987, because it just screamed late 70's or early 80's production and movie-making.The acting in the movie was actually fair enough, though there was nothing impressive to behold here. And I don't got to see Adam West, because I gave up on the movie before he entered the movie (or at least I didn't notice him)."Zombie Nightmare" is so cheesy, campy and bad that it is bound to give you a zombie nightmare indeed if you manage to stick with it to the very end.

After writing back-to-back negative reviews for Werewolf (1996) and Track of the Moon Beast (1976), I almost hate to make it three in a row with Zombie Nightmare. I've thought about raising one of the ratings because I really hate to seem so negative. But if you've seen this trifecta of cinematic crap, you'll understand that I really have no choice. Zombie Nightmare deserves the 1/10 – just like Werewolf and Track of the Moon Beast. It's pretty much bad in every way a movie can be. It's got it all – bad acting, poor special effects, ridiculous plot, weak technical aspects, and unlikable characters. I've used this expression several times recently, but Gawd awful also applies to Zombie Nightmare.Actually, I do have one positive thing to write about the movie. Somehow, the makers of this garbage were able to secure the rights to (or possibly just had the good sense to use) Motörhead's "Ace of Spades" for the opening credits. Lemmy rocks!