Zombie Nation (2004)
1/10
Life is too short to watch crap like this...
18 February 2010
Wow. Aside from being a thoroughly unpleasant and disgusting movie, I was shocked at the film makers' apparent contempt for creating a movie that even remotely looked realistic. Just in the first few minutes I noticed that many of the characters (especially the most maniacal of the cops) had strong German accents--even though the movie was filmed in Los Angeles and was supposed to take place there as well. Some of the cops had hair that would never have been allowed by a police force. And, the two uniformed policemen drove around town on their beat in a red car with a crappy temporary light stuck on it--because, you can only assume, the film makers didn't want to pay to rent a realistic police car.

The plot is actually quite violent and nasty. I had to struggle to watch the film because of this and I really wondered what sort of people would want to make such a sadistic film. It begins with two cops (in the red unmarked vehicle) stopping a lady who was doing nothing wrong. He cuffs her and takes her back to the warehouse in which he lives and makes his partner stay outside. A bit later, he returns to the car with a huge duffel bag that he can barely carry--it's obvious to anyone that he killed the woman and put her in the bag. Amazingly, the young partner (who needs a haircut) says nothing until this occurs again! And when people from the community come to the police about seeing some of these suspicious behaviors, the cops drag them off and beat them. They also ignore the young partner when he finally comes forward to tell the boss what's been happening. I understand that there are some bad police in the world, but all of them being either psychos or idiots is beyond ridiculous! in light of this, I could certainly see why the LA Police didn't let them use one of their cars!

Much of the film is like a snuff film--showing grisly murders in a very exploitational manner. Additionally, the film keeps cutting to some weird hellish sort of facility where people are chained up and tortured. I felt like I was watching a film created by Dr. Mengele for his friends--and I'm really not exaggerating. Who, after all, would want to watch all this unpleasantness--rapists and serial killers, maybe. After a while, I just gave up watching, as I felt dirty watching a film that seemed to revel in tormenting and degrading women. Life is just too short to watch crap like this and I implore you for the good of your soul to just avoid this film like the plague. All in all, an ugly and nasty film--deserving its place on IMDb's Bottom 100 list.
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