Bio Zombie (1998)

I am a big fan of zombie films as i am a big fan of Hong Kong films, so i couldn't skip this one.Bio-Zombie is a pretty good and funny horror comedy, spoofing the Dawn of the dead scenario (shopping mall full of zombies), Bio-zombie is not a gore fest, it's more like a horror comedy that everybody can watch.Besides the spoof of the Dawn of the dead scenario, there are many homages to video games (Resident Evil and House of the dead) and other situations found in horror movies.My only complaint are the first 20 or 30 minutes, they are pretty boring and i was almost going to turn-off the movie, but the rest of the movie is pretty good.

In the 1998 Hong Kong zombie/comedy "Biozombie," we meet a pair of very amusing ne'er-do-wells, Woody Invincible (Jordan Chan) and his younger sidekick, Crazy Bee (Sam Lee). When not engaged at their regular occupation as clerks at a bootlegged VCD store in the New Trend Plaza Mall, the two boastful cowards can usually be found either smoking pot or gambling and whoring in nearby Macao. As in another Asian horror film that I recently saw, 1960's "Jigoku," their lives are suddenly altered when their car accidentally strikes a crazed pedestrian. But rather than pulling a hit and run, as in "Jigoku," Woody and Bee here make the mistake of helping the dying pedestrian, not knowing that the soft drink that they pour down his throat actually consists of an Iraqi biochemical weapon that can transform anyone into the lurching, flesh-hungry undead! Soon enough, the zombie scourge has increased exponentially, and our hapless heroes, along with some hotties from the mall's beauty parlor AND an obnoxious cell phone dealer and his gorgeous wife, are playing hide-and-seek with the gut munchers in the locked and deserted shopping emporium....Anyway, "Biozombie" succeeds wildly at both its missions. It is both very funny and a fairly gripping zombie experience. The film is extremely fast paced--the zombies here are a pretty hyperkinetic bunch--and director Wilson Yip does a terrific job at wringing shocks and yucks on his obviously limited budget. Though his zombie makeup and FX are nowhere near the level that fans of Tom Savini may be accustomed to, they are certainly good and effective enough. It's loads of fun watching our two stoner heroes morph from empty braggadocio to full-fledged, superefficient zombie slayers, and most of the film's laffs come as a result of the hilarious expressions on these dudes' faces; they seem to be mugging ALL the time. The relationship between the two is a touching one, especially toward the film's end, as Bee's idolization of his older mentor becomes more apparent. The film gives the gorehounds out there any number of pleasing set pieces, too, including a frenzied fight in a security office, a zombie free-for-all in a sushi bar, a nerve-racking attempt to procure some handcuff keys out of an imminent zombie's mouth, the use of a power drill (!) on a zombie's head, and that final melee in an underground garage. The picture is nothing demanding or terribly earth shaking, but it sure is fun, right to its surprisingly downbeat ending. This fine-looking DVD from Media Blasters, by the way, offers the option of excellently translated English subtitles or what has been called "Engrish" subtitles, which are hilariously mistranslated in the worst pidgin English style. That latter option is certainly not recommended for use during an initial viewing, largely incomprehensible as these subtitles are, but is highly entertaining later on. However the film is viewed, though, this cult item should readily be acknowledged as a significant addition to the zombie/comedy subgenre.

What a horrible film. It absolutely stinks. After watching this film I felt really depressed because of the time I spent watching it and waiting for it to get better. It seems to me the Chinese can't direct ZOMBIE horror films. The acting is even fake. The actors are real fakes themselves. It seems these guys were picked for the film off the streets like stray dogs looking for a bone.Plot: (WHO CARES ANYWAY??? THE FILM IS LAME!!!) This movie takes place in a mall where two young men and other people work. They do not seem to get along very well due to a lack of customers. One night the two young men give an apparently dying businessman a soft drink, which is in actuality an experimental Iraqi biological weapon that turns him into a flesh-eating zombie. Returning to the mall, the man escapes and begins infecting the population, forcing a small group of misfits to band together in order to survive.This film mainly tries to show itself off as a comedy-horror film but falls flat on its face. Obviously the director wanted to cash in on George Romero's success with Dawn Of The Dead. Incidentally if you're not Chinese and happen to own a copy of this film, I suggest sending it to your worst enemy, burning it or posting it back to China.

Okay now, let me start this off by saying that I'm a sucker for anything with the word zombie in it. And every time I come across another movie that has the word zombie even remotely associated with it I'll have to sit down and watch. Unfortunately, time and time again I am tricked, and find myself sitting in front of the TV being inflicted with the pain of yet another crap horror movie.Often times I log onto IMDb and read these reviews in the hopes of getting a "heads up", and maybe stumbling upon some lost zombie gem of the film. Maybe and supercritical. When I read good reviews for a film such as this it only strengthens my doubt in my own opinions of the zombie genre.The truth! This movie was bad. This movie was bad with a Chinese accent. Save your dollar, put on your old copy of "Night of the Living Dead", and order in some takeout.