Guest Blog: The Weirding Dead – Author Jamie Russell’s Top 10 Strangest Zombie Movies
Zombie Babies (2011)
A grubby, shoddy and totally outrageous DIY effort from West Virginia, Zombie Babies revolves around a backwoods abortionist (Brian Gunnoe) whose alleged pain-free, late-term termination technique inevitably leads to an outbreak of baby foetuses. As a group of up-the-duff patrons and their partners find themselves besieged by tiny tot ghouls, filmmaker Eamon Hardiman crafts OTT sequences that would make John Waters blush. It’s a toxic moonshine of redneck horror, cheapo filmmaking, sleazy nudity and extreme bad taste. The poster features an ultrasound of an in utero baby ghoul, but the grossest moment involves a crawling baby zombie who sits on the face of a man who’s been tied up and blindfolded on a bed, waiting for kinky sex. Mistaking the zombie baby sitting on him for his girlfriend, the man proceeds to entertain it with his tongue… Stay classy, Eamon.
Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead (2012)
Male zombies run around Tokyo with their trousers round their ankles raping women indiscriminately… Feminists arm themselves with assault rifles… North Korea prepares its nukes, blaming Japan’s porn industry for the apocalypse… Welcome to the world of Rape Zombie, a living dead rape-pocalypse that sets out to prove that “all men are beasts.” As the city is overrun, lesbian nurse Nozomi (adult actress Arisu Ozawa) grabs a katana and takes refuge in a rural house with a few other capable women. They’re determined not to let the doku-otoko (“poison men”) inseminate them with their toxic sperm. Any hope this might be a Swiftian satire is undermined by the title song’s cheerleading lyrics “Rape Zombie! Rape Zombie! Rape Zombie! Rape!” and much salacious lingering over its actresses in various states of undress. An Eastern curio to be filed alongside eyeball licking and vending machines selling schoolgirl panties.
