Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Zombie '90: Extreme Pestilence" is (despite the English title) a German movie from 1991, so this one already had its 25th anniversary last year. The writer and director is Andreas Schnaas and he was in his early 20s still when he made this movie. Many more should follow, in all kinds of positions. And having seen some of his stuff, I must say that there are many garbage films in there. And honestly, there is also one reason really only why I do not give this film 1 star out of 5, but 2 stars out of 5 and this is because I watched the 2009 version named "Zombie 09" for which they kept the video the same, but renewed the audio and added new commentaries and quotes that we can hear now in very clear voices that made obvious they weren't from the early 1990s. It is a pretty short movie in the version I saw, barely made it to the 70-minute mark. It is of course much more about the effects and splatter than about anything story-related or performances, but still the character of Dr. Bern was somewhat memorable with the Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts references. I wonder if these were also part of the film back then as they were already known weren't they? Anyway, I guess this new rework of the movie if you want to call it like that is somewhat of a success as it makes a pretty bad film almost watchable. That's why I also think that everybody who wants to see this short film should go for the remastered version. But overall, it is of course still a thumbs-down. Don't watch.

BA_Harrison When I first watched Andreas Schnaas' splatter-fest Zombie '90 (well over two decades ago: where has the time gone?), I struggled my way through with the original German audio, not understanding a word. I can't say that I enjoyed it that much.However, in the years since my first viewing, I've developed something of a fondness for ultra low budget German splatter, learning to appreciate the sight of assorted mulleted Germans in stone-washed denim smashing papier maché heads full of offal.As with Schnaas' first gore-drenched film, Violent Sh*t, the picture quality is cruddy, the sound lousy, the acting crap, the direction dire, the editing amateurish, and the gore effects thoroughly unconvincing, but I can't help but admire the fact that the guys behind the film have ploughed on regardless of their technical limitations. Every spurting wound, severed head, and eviscerated gut is a labour of love by fellow gorehounds, gawd bless 'em!Rather irritatingly, Zombie '90 has since been released with an English dub, which attempts to add some unnecessary humour to proceedings by using ridiculous voices and silly dialogue; it does nothing to improve matters, being desperately unfunny throughout. My advice: stick with the original German soundtrack if possible: it's less insulting to horror fans.

Foreverisacastironmess "Damn!" Let me start out by just saying that I believe this really and truly has the potential to be the greatest so-bad-it's-good horror movie ever made, and unlike many others from what I've read here and there, I don't just say that about any old lousy picture at the drop of a hat. It's certainly one of the best examples that I've ever come across. I first discovered it all thanks to the wonderfully droll Cinema Snob's review that he did on it and I'm very glad I did, for this beast *is* that fabled unbelievably awesome bad movie you've been looking for and much more besides, trust me! Most people seem to gripe on about this film like it's the worst thing to emerge from Germany since Hitler, but to me it was B-movie gold! Where most saw nothing but pure garbage, I was totally blown away and could tell that it was gonna be a real tour-de-force of zero-budget trashy goodness - and I mean that as a most enthusiastic and positive endorsement! And hell yeah the dialogue was beyond terrible, but it's supposed to be, that's where all the fun's coming from in this instance, it was certainly the only real thing that made this movie worthwhile for me. The fact that the 'actors' doing the dubbing where seemingly making up every sentence as they went along only added hugely to the comedic aspect. I'm not sure what it was these guys were smoking, but it must've been good because most of the time the motherf*****s weren't even making no sense! I don't think the s**t that was the real script was even being followed during the dubbing process, I think those guys must have got in there and just went crazy and thought screw it, let's watch this movie and make up our own damn voice-overs! It kept cracking me up every time the main doctor guy was on the screen because he may have looked like s**t, but he sounded like Shaft! It's hysterical if you're in the right mind for it - or of course a little out of your mind, whichever! The film frequently goes from bad to incoherent in a matter of micro seconds. There's no real proper story, it was all just one colossal excuse to make a poorly-grafted patchwork of badly corresponding zombie attack sequences with the fiends tearing victims limb-from-limb in increasingly strange situations. I thought all the zombie attacks had a decent amount of scare factor to them, and there was enough tension and visceral gore there that it occasionally got a creepy vibe going. I enjoyed some of the atmosphere, it reminded me of another(in that case) unfairly maligned zombie horror that I really love. "The Video Dead." It was all fair-game as far as kills went in this splatterfest, and some of the vile bodily mutilations that these malicious undead inflicted on the unfortunate victims were downright offensive! Like when the two woman are killed and the fat one got her boobs cut off and the other gets cut in half right through her um, nether regions~ And the baby slaughter was a little whoa, even if it was clearly a doll. The baby's name was "Leroy-Bob", which has got to be the straight-up funniest name I ever heard of. That's my favourite scene because of how the miserable woman in the wheelchair hilariously laments and shares her deep thoughts about the sorry state of mankind before she gets it! It has a few moments that sort of pay homage to classic horror movies, such as Zombie Flesh Eaters, Predator, The Evil Dead, a zombie is wearing a Ghostbusters T-shirt at one point, and even Alien when a little parasite thing leads out of a zombie's chest and into some jerk's eye! I like the dream sequence that leads up to the ending, although the surrealism was pretty redundant as things were already pretty much as far-out as they could possibly get without any dream elements thrown in.. My advice would be about this movie is that you really should just try and enjoy it for what it is, don't try thinking about it, don't think at all - just breathe it in! You guys want the 411 on utterly insane zombie movies you probably never even heard of? See Zombie 90 Extreme Pestilence, you'll either hate it or it'll make you die of laughter!! Beautifully bad.

matazzbounmy O.K O.k.. First thing is. let's get some things straight here, The people that have seen this movie should have known what there where about to watch. I knew from the start it had bad dubbing and horrible filming.. But SO WHAT That's what low buget movies are all about. I personally don't think the director had any intentions about winning an Oscar. When i watch a movie a try and relate myself to where this director was going in this film, You can't expect to watch these kind of films and expect award winning actors and film. Who cares about the plot it's just bascially a SPLATTER FEST.. and i do mean SPLATTER FEST. My Jaw was open the whole time, i have never seen anyone put some much extra gore into a movie before. I acually found the Dubbing quite funny.. as seeing as i myself used to do almost the same thing with my sister recording our own words to horror movies... and playing the movie back with our version.. as for the movie NONSTOP GORE throughout the flick quite the imagiation the director had.... It's Just a GOOD OLE BLOOD BATH.... check it out if your just looking for a good old night of GORE!!!7/10 rating..