stevebreighner One of the best movies I've seen in a while. No wonder it is in the Criterion Collection. Yes, of course its stupid,but so what? Does stupid necessarily equal bad? I don't think so at all.. This movie had almost everything I admire about zombie and more generally, horror movies: the camp (poor video/audio quality and dialogue in this regard) action, raunchiness, some gore yes, and laughs. I thought the plot was entirey original and well thought out. The film had many likable characters and includes great performances by the drug dealer and the two main heroes. In fact they were most all endearing. There were one or two particularly gross scenes which I could have done without. Awesome soundtrack also. Highly recommend to any zombie fan. Bravo!

Backlash007 ~Spoiler~I Was a Teenage Zombie is a major throwback to the teen horror flicks of the late 50's. It's got the soundtrack, the malt shop, and even Cindy Faithful. Too bad it was done better in My Boyfriend's Back. This is just a poorly done horror/comedy with hardly any effort put forth. The direction is choppy at best, the sound quality is pitiful, and the production values are nonexistent. I don't even want to get into the story, but I will. Five friends are in need of weed during the town's dry season so they can get their dates a little loose during the spring dance. They turn to a local thug, Mussolini (think Jerry Stiller crossed with Cheech Marin), who rips them off. While trying to get their money back, they accidentally kill him (he slips on a banana peel) and dump him into the river (which is filled with toxic waste from the nuclear plant). He comes back as a zombie and kills one of the five, our titular hero. The remaining four dump their dead friend in the river as well so he will become a zombie and protect them from Mussolini. Does it get any worse than that? Other than a few mildly funny gags, I would say no.Note for genre buffs: The name Lloyd Kaufman is given as an employee of the nuclear plant. Lloyd Kaufman is head of Troma studios and co-creator of the Toxic Avenger.

one4now4 I am saying that in a schlock sense, though. I have to say I like this movie a lot. It's a horror-comedy with an in-joke reference to Lloyd Kaufman, and is a good, goofy, nasty movie. It has more intentional laughs than unintentional, I think. Take the jerk cop for example, wearing a badge that looks like it was made by a little kid with paper and scissors for Halloween. They had to know what they were doing there! The low-budget gore FX are pretty cool, and one scene in particular (where the guy's face is ripped off) actually shocked me when I first saw it. The various artists soundtrack is great (and harder than hell to find). As far as the "plot" goes, we have some misfitly losers (my kinda people!) who go out to buy some pot for a spring dance celebration. What they end up with is some toxin-sprayed weed that makes them feel under the weather. (One drug cartel henchman says, "I wouldn't give that sh*t to my mother-in-law.") Nobody becomes a zombie from this, though. Still, what we do end up with is a very cranky (no pun intended) zombie drug pusher killing off hapless victims left and right. The only person who can stop him is another zombie (which I thought was a cool idea). Everything here is so matter-of-fact, like somebody took a slacker movie like "River's Edge" and mixed it with "The Toxic Avenger". I love this, a classic cheezball splatter-comedy that's just fun.

Dr Wily Maybe it was because I was a teenager when I rented it, but, I don't think this flick is all that bad. The basic element is dumb, naturally: some sort of toxic, polluted marijuana turns a dealer and a teen into zombies who must, for some reason, battle each other. But, there are some okay moments. The guy who gets his face torn off and then has his face rubbed in... well, his face. And, the odd rape scene on the car hood, with our resident dealer zombie, who tears off her legs, apparently to the victim's delight, is just plain odd enough to make you laugh inquisitively.