Being a huge zombie aficionado, I found this movie on Amazon and had to add it to my DVD collection. After all it is a zombie movie, and wait, it gets better (or so you'd think), it has Bill Hinzman - the original zombie from Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" movie - as the zombie here.
Initially I thought it was a little tasteless to cash in on this fact that he was the original zombie in that movie and then spawn this movie from that fact.
However, having seen this movie now, I must shake my head. This was a zombie movie on the lower end of the rating scale. The story was really predictable, but there was a lot of continuity issues going on throughout the course of the story. First the people are at some secluded camp site, then suddenly there are houses nearby and people go trick or treating, and then there is a party in a barn. Yeah, well it just didn't seem to make much sense. It was like as Bill Hinzman was trying to put as much mayhem into the movie as he possible could.
The zombies sounded like growling predatory cats. Wait, what? Yeah, they did, and that really gave the movie a comical sense, and took the scary part right out of it. And also the zombies were able to block and parry blows coming at them and they were using tools to kill people as well. For me, that was veering way too far from the mythology of the living dead. But hey, I guess there is a target audience for everything.
"Flesh Eater" has some less than average acting performances in it, it seemed like most of the people didn't have their hearts with them in the project (aside from the one who got hers ripped out and eaten?). And to make matters worse, then the dialogue script was poor as well.
But being a fan of all things zombie, I can now say that I am the owner of this particular zombie movie, though it has been bagged and tagged on the shelf, never to be seen again.
Initially I thought it was a little tasteless to cash in on this fact that he was the original zombie in that movie and then spawn this movie from that fact.
However, having seen this movie now, I must shake my head. This was a zombie movie on the lower end of the rating scale. The story was really predictable, but there was a lot of continuity issues going on throughout the course of the story. First the people are at some secluded camp site, then suddenly there are houses nearby and people go trick or treating, and then there is a party in a barn. Yeah, well it just didn't seem to make much sense. It was like as Bill Hinzman was trying to put as much mayhem into the movie as he possible could.
The zombies sounded like growling predatory cats. Wait, what? Yeah, they did, and that really gave the movie a comical sense, and took the scary part right out of it. And also the zombies were able to block and parry blows coming at them and they were using tools to kill people as well. For me, that was veering way too far from the mythology of the living dead. But hey, I guess there is a target audience for everything.
"Flesh Eater" has some less than average acting performances in it, it seemed like most of the people didn't have their hearts with them in the project (aside from the one who got hers ripped out and eaten?). And to make matters worse, then the dialogue script was poor as well.
But being a fan of all things zombie, I can now say that I am the owner of this particular zombie movie, though it has been bagged and tagged on the shelf, never to be seen again.