Zombie '90: Extreme Pestilence

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.

Man, I've never seen a movie so unbelievably and extremely disgusting since who knows when. This has to rank as the ALL-TIME MOST DISGUSTING FILM EVER MADE IN MOVIE HISTORY, as well as the funniest. The gore, the killing, the acting, and the atrocious dubbing into English is incredibly horrible. The dubbing is so cheap that you'll see a nerdy looking doctor with the voice of a 70's pimp. The movie is about a military airplane carrying untested toxic chemicals that crashes into the forest, starting a brand new disease ("The Extreme Pestilence"), turning people into hideous looking zombies who'll eat any body part, sex organ or not, and internal organ they can get their hands on. The tagline says it all, "Guts, gore, splatter and more." This extremely gruesome and gory horror film is so terrible and funny that it has the corniest scene in movie history! A woman who is being pushed on a wheelchair by some guy while she's carrying her baby is attacked by a zombie and the zombie tears up the baby into little pieces, which you can easily tell is a doll filled with silly putty. This is as bad as horror movies can get!!!

I came into viewing this film expecting at least something on par with BURIAL GROUND or NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES, but what I ended up seeing was even worse than REDNECK ZOMBIES. Like REDNECK ZOMBIES, this film was made on a poor-quality VHS camcorder and looks in. The actors act (and look) terrible as shooting on video is not the most forgiving medium. The movie is almost impossible to watch given that the creativity behind it is low and the attempts at humor usually fall flat. Everything is drenched in the ceaseless cheap gore, which looks more like Tomato juice than anything else. The horrendously awful dubbing is almost as bad as in COSMIC SPACE NINJA 2: ESCAPE FROM CHERNOBOURG (and in that movie it was intentional). They even have an obvious black man's voice for a very little white man character.

Sure it's so bad it's funny for about 5-7 minutes, but after that you will really wonder why you put down good money for this or bothered watching it. It's not a zombie epic so much as yet-another non-budget shot-on-vidio disaster that only got widely recognized because its director released a lot of his other similar films as 'death' videos to be put in the adult section of mom&pop video stores across America. Be warned, as they're not really any better than your usual student film or wedding video.

I saw this yesterday and wow it is crazy!Very low budget bad and funny dub job so so much gore and splatter it a must see and must have for anyone that likes troma films,trash,gore,comedy!!Now I want to make my one zombi movie 8/10 its that crazy and yes its a horrabal movie!!

Zombie 90 is a zero budget "movie" made by German director Andreas schnaas. This is the guy who also has a movie series called violent S##t. This is one of those straight to video movies that were very common around this time where anyone could buy a camcorder and make a movie. The special effects arnt completely horrible but thanks to the awful lighting most of the time the blood looks like strawberry milk. I cant judge the dialog writing or acting because the dubbers obviously did not follow the script. At some points you can hear the dubbers LAUGHING. The intentionally bad dubbing is hilarious though and is the only redeeming factor of this movie in my opinion. And to top it off this movie has no ending.( You will have to see it to know what i mean). If you want a few laughs then i recommend this movie but if you want a serious horror movie look somewhere else.