A for effort, D for execution.
Zombie Women Of Satan is, settle in for this description, A British movie about A traveling freak show that features a perverted clown, a midget, a strong man without a tongue, a female rock star, and a burlesque girl. That's group 1.
Group 2 is a father who is a mad scientist who is doing studies on women and trying to turn them into zombies. He gets the women from his son, who runs a cult on the family compound. The scientist also has two daughters who help with both the cult and the experiments. And then there's dear old mum, who appears to be part zombie, and is chained up in a closet for her, and everyone elses protection.
The cult leading son also has some sort of tv show that focuses on weirdos, which is how the 2 groups end up getting together. But while doing the TV show, the female rocker thinks she sees her long lost sister, who is in fact, part of the cult.
Through a mix up, somehow some zombie blood gets into the punch being served to the cult girls and that's when all hell breaks loose as we are treated to dozens of topless zombie bitches breaking free and going after anything and everything they can get their undead hands on.
There is effort in the script. It produces some funny one liners and it aims to be as zany as possible. I think it's a decent script. I laughed a number of times, but it was the joke as written more so than as delivered.
Technically the movie just isn't very good. The look is fine, nothing wrong there, but the editing, blocking, actual cameraship, all are very flawed and lead to a stilted and choppy viewing experience. It's very hard to make one liners work when the camera always seems to be out of sync with the actors.
The acting for the most part is decent. Again, it's hard to tell if a line is delivered badly when the filming of it does it no favors. An actor reciting a line that doesn't flow in the conversation he's having because of the editing and cuts makes it hard to know if it's the actors fault or the directors. That being said, it's not like the acting is all that good either. It looks like a bunch of people who know what to do, but not quite how to do it.
I can't really recommend this movie as anything other than perhaps a stoned or drunk, late night, laugh at it sort of thing, but in the hands of more skilled film makers I think this could have been very entertaining.
Zombie Women Of Satan won't kill you with laughter but I'll be damned if it doesn't try as hard it can.
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