Director: Mark Pirro
Year: 1991
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie; Horror/Comedy
Plot:
Sent on a church-sponsored retreat, a woman leads a group of wayward teens to help cure them of their sinful ways with various activities designed to lead them back into the grace of God, but they soon realize that the stories of the nudist colony residents returning from the dead are true.
Review:
This was pretty much a full-on blast all the way through. Most of the positives for this one come from the inherently over-the-top and outrageous storyline, as this one is pretty much built upon how goofy and cheesy it is. The fact that the premise to this one is pretty much a lock that it's going to be that way where dead members of a nudist colony return to seek revenge on the church-goers who forced them off their land, is cheesy and quite fun enough to make it just based on that alone, but the film also manages to put in enough other factors to really make this feel that way. That it's pretty much a musical with there being a lot of songs in here that are pretty funny based around the lyrics, which are pretty gut-busting at times, as well as catchy, but the joke-like tone taken with them pretty much guarantees that they're going to be a part of the overall tone of this. There are even a lot of jokes and gags, from the one who keeps quoting erroneous Bible verses as their only lines of dialogue to the one nudist with a simply grotesque-looking body, and much more. This one just keeps finding ways to get cheesier and cheesier, and it makes the movie more fun that way.
There's also the way this one treats the more traditional genre elements. Most of that is based on the film's rather good-looking zombies, which are really nice, as while not one of them looks anything close to being great or close to death, and are actually just simply normal people with corpse paint, but they still look rotting enough and do get over nicely enough. Given the way that this builds up their appearance in more of a slasher villain route, where the resurrection is spectacular when they revive, yet the revenge-rampage killing spree is conducted off-screen, so that the reveal to the characters who are aware that something is wrong makes for a fun time. This one is also a lot gorier than expected, with some really nice deaths here. There's a nice decapitation, a wire slicing a body in half at the waist, some organs ripped out, a bashed head, being run over by a car, drowned by force-fed cement, and limbs chopped off, among others. This here is quite bloody, and despite these not being based on grossing the viewer out, and still in the cheesy mode, they work incredibly well. The nudity in here is also quite nice, ignoring the one grotesque gag, but the rest is really nice and really appreciated. The fact that this is so cheesy, though, is the main reason why this one becomes watchable.
There wasn't too much really wrong with this one. One of the only flaws is the film's cheesiness, which might put some people off. This one pretty much signifies its intent right from the beginning with the approach and tone it's going for, which is outright cheese, and that's not a tone all are going to appreciate. The songs and humor aren't really going to be appreciated by everyone as well, on sheer principle, due to the inclusion of such material infringing on the tempo and pace of the more traditional material. The other flaw with this one is the fact that there's a rather dull section in the middle near the parts where all the past events get discovered, as nothing much happens for a good portion of the time. It's got some nice jokes, but not a whole lot of action, and it's punctuated with the longest song that gets a little long and repetitive, but otherwise, these personal preference issues are the only flaws with this one.
Overview: *****/5
It's incredibly stupid and quite badly made, but it's quite enjoyable with quite a lot to like, and that's what really matters here. Really seek it out if you enjoy your movies with a lot of cheese, are a fan of the creative crew, or if this sounds interesting, while those who can't enjoy the joke should just ignore it altogether.
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