Everyone’s favorite zombie is back, and this time he’s written, directed, produced, edited and stars in his very own zombie picture. I even think he put his daughter as the little angel in the movie. Bill Hinzman, the original, first zombie we see in Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead is back to start more zombie chaos. Quite frankly I don’t like the guys face, it disgusts more than scares me, but then again that may be a good thing, he’s a zombie after all.

The movie is about a group of teenagers that go on a hay-ride around a farming community and plan to spend Halloween night there, drinking beer, smoking weed, having sex, and getting killed out in the woods. This sounds a lot like the premise to many a slasher film. But mix that with zombies running amok not only in the woods but all around town; invading people’s homes, crashing parties and more until our first group of teens manage to get through to the cops.

This movie has A LOT of NOTLD touches, starting with (1) Hinzman as the first zombie that starts things, then (2) the first group of kids hold fort in a tool-shed, boarding up doors and windows, also, (3) a much loved friend wounded by a zombie is nursed until she dies and becomes a zombie. There are a couple of more including (4) a very similar ending shot (pun intended).

The first 35 minutes are generic horror story stuff, things you have seen so often your nightmares begin to resemble them. And it doesn’t help that the couple who make out in a barn features a hideous girl, and the fact that we see her breasts does not satisfy or help the movie along a single bit. It gets a little better later when the zombies come to town. A few of the fun killings in the film overall include a pitchfork through the stomach, axe to the head, hand through chest pulling out heart, and neat zombie biting off nose. You see, that’s clever because zombies always go for the neck (usually), like vampires do but here it’s a bite to the nose. I admit I don’t know a lot about zombies. They are not my favorite killers but when I see something I like, I point it out. There are good breasts in this movie but the best nudity comes from the older daughter in the family preparing for Halloween. There is a tasty gratuitous scene of her undressing and stepping into the shower. We even get a good look at her pie. If you don’t know what a pie is, well you probably shouldn’t be reading this.

The first act was so crappy that it ruined the whole movie for me. The second act with the crazy killings made the movie easier and more enjoyable. Towards the end, the zombie lynch mob shooting down the fiends was kinda weak. You might call me crazy now but for some odd reason I thoroughly enjoyed (and was perhaps moved) by the final conversation between Bob and Sally. I suspected what would happen next but I sure wished it hadn’t.

This was a mediocre zombie flick that gave me mixed emotions; bad directing, editing, and acting paired with a weak script. I don’t recommend this movie.

- Jorge Antonio Lopez