Zombie Women of Satan (2009)

I watched this film, because as a lover of spoof films, it became a must see. Having sat through all of it, and there were times I just felt like turning the channel over, it is one of the worst spoof films ever. The fact there is a sequel, must mean someone has too much money to spare, they would be better giving it to a charity and apologising for the first one. It is an absolutely awful film, trying to find anything positive to say about it is hard in itself. Kate Soulsby is pretty and that's about it. As far as the rest of the cast goes, it looks like a student production where they have been given a hundred quid and told to get on with it. If the crude language used throughout the film is supposed to shock it fails miserably, as to shock is to take by surprise, this does the exact opposite and after five minutes of listening the vulgarities become unnoticed. The humour is of the standard of a b grade 'Carry On 'movie. As a supposed spoof of the Zombie genre of film it fails on all counts, there is little plot and poor acting. But where it fails most of all it isn't funny. Put on 'Dracula dead and loving it' and get your life back on track.

Wolfenden19 needs his/her head examined just in case he/she has had a humour bypass. "No redeeming features whatsoever"?!!! "Jokes not in the least bit funny"!!? Zeus taking a crap in the woods was hilarious and,"You can only come in if you've stopped being a Zombie".... There were loads of hilarious one liners and visual gags. It WAS made on a shoestring, most of the actors were amateurs and in my opinion it's one of the funniest, tongue-in-cheek zombie films I've ever seen. Blood oozed out of places that blood never usually oozes out of. 'Mother' was brilliant, as were 'Pervo' and the gorgeous zombie women. Humour, boobs, gore . . what more could you wish for!

Unfortunately with a couple of actor changes (Vic Reeves and Ant spring to mind) this sorry excuse could easily be marketed as the next big British comedy. Luckily the roles which were obviously scripted for known names were turned down and the film sunk into it's own unique level of comedy horror.It's a mile away from funny - but unfortunately really close to what the UK channels show as "experimental comedy" - I honestly can't believe this wasn't funded by channel4 or the lottery.That said I'd watch another horror comedy directed/written by the same guys - this is really close to watch-able in places (but please for the love of god don't pay to see this in any way).

Zombie Women of Satan is set in England where the members of an extreme stage act are about to be interviewed by Tycho Zander (Christian Steel) on his internet channel, arriving at his large farm estate studio the interview starts. Meanwhile in another building on the estate Tycho's mad scientist father Henry (Bill Fellows) has been conducting bizarre experiments with various young girls & turning them into flesh eating zombies, after a bowl of punch is contaminated with infected blood all the remaining girls turn into zombies free to roam the estate looking for food. Lead singer Skye Brannigan (Victoria Hopkins) sees her long lost sister Rachel (Victoria Broom) & decides to rescue her, the rest of the raunchy act tag along & help her. With zombies mad scientists wanting to keep a lid on things everyone is out to kill our heroes but unfazed they carry on...This English production was written, produced & directed by Steve O'Brien & Warren Speed who also stars in it as Pervo the Clown & to be fair to it I thought it was alright for what it was, certainly no masterpiece as cheap exploitative fun Zombie Women of Satan isn't half bad. OK so from a script point of view the film makes no real sense, nothing is explained or comes together particularly well & while not all the jokes & one-liners are funny there's enough enthusiasm here in the writing & delivery to raise the odd smile. A lot of the humour is very lowbrow, a scene of Zeus the dwarf taking a dump complete with fart sounds & funny face pulling may not sound that funny but if you lower your expectations & go with the raunchy & juvenile playground humour then you may like this. There's loads of swearing, sometimes too much but it's the banter & one-liners between the main character's that really shines here with plenty of verbal sparring, insults & amusing quick fire responses. At just over 80 minutes long at least it's short, it moves along at a decent pace & there's a fair amount of blood & nudity too, I guess Zombie Women of Satan is never going to win any awards or be at the top of anyone's best films list it does deliver what it promises & it's surprisingly amusing with it, certainly not the greatest film ever made but an entertaining one if you set your expectations low enough & are in the right sort of mood for some trashy exploitation. It turned out to be much, much better & much, much more likable than I had thought it would be.Obviously shot on a low budget you can tell a lot of effort & enthusiasm went into this, from the visual style of the individual character's to the reasonable gore effects which aren't that bad. A head is cut in half with a chainsaw, a head is cut off with said chainsaw, a face is bashed in, there's some bullet wounds, some flesh biting, naked blood covered zombie women & more. Each of the character's are quite likable with distinct personalities & strange outfits from Pervo the Clown in clown make-up to country music reject Johnny Dee Hellfire.The IMDb says Zombie Women of Satan had a budget of about £40,000 which really is next to nothing, filmed in the North of England this is quite well made considering & looks quite good. The acting is pretty good & it's the fun performances & delivery that make Zombie Women of Satan as much fun as it is, the only weak link is probably Victoria Hopkins as Skye who is strangely much more restrained than everyone else.Zombie Women of Satan isn't a great film, despite it's lurid title this is a fairly amusing horror comedy exploitation flick that is probably much better than it has any right to be. I was amused & entertained while watching it so I guess it must have done something right, right?