Absolutely the worst movie.

A Masterpiece!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is the weakest of JR Bookwalter's films because it strays from his style of fast, humorous action scenes. Bookwalter tries something more ambitious, moody and suspenseful and he fails. But its still typically watchable in its cheesiness. This is more drab looking and boring than his other films though. There are scenes where the black leading man is locked in cages, forced into a Mandingo fight and a zombie sniffs him and says, "You smell like a brother...". It might be a string of racist jokes or JR made a film thats a metaphor for smalltown racism. So Bookwalter tries to be artsier here and its appreciated, but he forgot to make it entertaining as he was NEVER scary or thoughtful director.

Goofy, cheap gore-flick from Ohio's own JR Bookwalter(The Dead Next Door) has cop, Eddie Boone(James Black)tangling with the malformed agents of a drug pushing monster(..once a human being who evolved into what looks like a talking protoplasm, with a pig's head)who has created a drug called Ozone which turns your body into something quite grotesque. This monster who sits in a swivel chair ordering his posse, whose faces bulge these bulb-like warts, to commandeer Eddie, wishes to use him as the next step in an evolutionary ladder with Ozone providing the change. Most of the film displays Eddie's nightmarish night of dodging the villains while suffering bouts of hysteria caused by part of the Ozone drug that was injected in his arm when he lost his partner on a drug bust gone awry.Lots of outrageous gore for fans of the ultra-violence. A druggie's head explodes when he ingests too much of Ozone. A human body dissolves into a skeleton. A head is crushed under the tire of a driving car. An arm is severed with the wound bleeding. A female gives birth to Eddie's demon baby! The monster of the film is a badly designed costume, with the actor's voice mechanically altered. When Eddie and Justine(Lori Scarlett), the female he is seduced by who is in league with the monster, transform momentarily into these hideous beasts(..a severe case of mutation) while embracing for a sexual encounter. The director depends heavily on the morphing process utilized in Terminator 2. When humans begin to transform, their faces and skin often bubble! Eddie's world, presented in the film, is basically a series of run-ins with the monster's zombie agents, and his escapes. A lot of the film has Eddie working through the city under siege much like Snake Pliskin in Escape from New York. Close encounters, staying one step ahead when all hope seem lost. The special effects are as low budget as it gets, but there's a charm to Bookwalter's films that might rub off on those just seeking a flick to consume 90 minutes. It has enough insanity, I believe, to please an audience looking for such over-the-top grue and strange characters.

This came at the end of a long weekend spent watching really bad films. Don't think for a second that adds to its credit, though. I can't list everything I hated about this movie because a) it would take too long and b) I'm sure it killed a few of my brain cells, and my mind is blocking some of my memories out of self-defense. This movie contains: terrible acting, a horrible screenplay, lousy camera-work, way too much red lighting, occasionally no light at all, really bad makeup, plot hole upon plot hole upon plot hole, the least effective villain ever, a mind-numbingly bad soundtrack, and THE strangest sex scene I have ever encountered in my life. The director admitted in the commentary that he gets teased a lot for the "parking lot of death" scene, and I would say "teasing" is a generous word. I would like to throw feces at the man responsible for that scene. Also, when we got this movie it was listed as "Street Zombies", not "Ozone". It's a fair indicator of a bad film when there's more than one title involved-- alas, we had no warning. Here's what I can say to this film's credit: watch it with a bunch of friends and you just may get some good laughs out of the schlocky awfulness. In a scene in a bar involving zombified patrons, the director mentions that he'd been buying all the extras beer and they were all rip-roaringly drunk by the time filming was through. Watching this movie, I really, really, really wish I had been, too.

This isn't a great movie, but it's also not really a terrible movie. I found it pretty enjoyable, to tell the truth. The effects are obviously cheap, but when you consider the budget these people were probably working with, I think the film came out rather well. The major players act better than most in low-budget horror films, and the storyline, for the most part, makes sense. A few seemingly pointless scenes are thrown in here and there, but overall it isn't too hard to follow. I liked the movie, and if you enjoy horror movies and can appreciate a fairly well-made low-budget film, Ozone is worth checking out.