Looking for some low, low budget horror movies?
SHATTER DEADThe film starts with a (female) Angel of Death impregnating some woman. Not that you'd know that was what was happening unless you read the film's description. Somehow this causes everybody not to die, but to become zombies instead. Not "braaaaainnssss" zombies, just regular people who happen to be dead and rotting.
Now throw in a, er, "handsome" woman who wanders around doing absolutely nothing. She encounters a deranged priest, there's a bit of admirable gore involving a zombie fetus, and then she meets her dead boyfriend and they engage in a graphic sex scene with a gun (no blood flow, you see).
This movie's pretty bad. I like low budget films, but this one. . . even the nudity is subpar.
Very supar.
ICE FROM THE SUNThis one surprised me. It starts out very slow with some rigamarole about a magician who creates an alternate universe where he lures people in and kills them. Some lady escapes and is sent back by heavan and hell to do him in. This exposition takes thirty minutes(!). Then we meet a group of people who are sucked into the dimension whose job is to die gruesomely. Then there's the end, which I won't spoil, but it wouldn't matter if I did anyway.
So what's the surprise. Well the film has quite a bit of style going for it, especially if you consider its probable budget. Sure all that style is cribbed from the opening montage of SEVEN and it's kind of like sitting through an two hour Gravity Kills/Marilyn Manson video, but I enjoyed it. The film also has a fair amount of well done gore, although once again. . . the budget.
So the acting is very bad and there is no real plot. In fact, the film is a series of different scenes in which each person dies. Only a few of those scenes veer towards the silly, and a few of them are quite a good, in a sleazy horror-film sort of way.
I also liked the music. ICE FROM THE SUN, check it out.
