Mutant Vampire Zombies from the 'Hood!

This film essentially begins in Los Angeles with two rival gangs meeting in a warehouse to discuss the release of a hostage. As it so happens, a Chinese gang led by a man named "Dragon" (Robert Wu) has kidnapped a woman named "Latiffa" (Rachel Montez Minor) who is a member of a black gang led by her boyfriend "G-Dog" (Tyshawn Bryant). Since the negotiation involves the exchange of some illegal drugs, two members of the police are also nearby and are prepared to make a bust. Unfortunately, as soon as they enter the warehouse a gun battle breaks out which seriously injures one of the policemen. Even worse, however is the fact that at this exact same time a strange solar flare occurs which releases large amounts of radiation upon the earth and turns everyone who didn't happen to be in a properly sealed environment into zombies. Realizing that something is terribly wrong outside one of the police named "David" (C. Thomas Howell) agrees to join forces with both G-Dog and Dragon as they now have to deal with millions of zombies all around them. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that the humor in this movie basically stems from the ineptitude of those working on the production of the film--with the manner in which the zombies were filmed and portrayed being especially ridiculous. Fortunately, the overall plot and the acting was sufficient enough to make things somewhat entertaining with Tyshawn Bryant probably giving the best performance overall. That said, while this was certainly not a good zombie film by any means, it wasn't necessarily that bad either and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.

Now in Gangs of the Dead, rival Mexican and black gangs and assembled arm-candy or gun malls are doing a drug deal in a warehouse that gets busted by the cops. Things go wrong on the outside and they must join forces to fight off the surrounding zombie horde. Here its black and wanna-b-black Asian gangs. Apparently the slang talking Asians kidnapped the black gang member's girl friend in order to deal drugs with them. The deal sours a zombie comet hits earth, but instead of a castle siege it's a running gun battle black-hawk down style…C. Thomas Howell who was in that south rampart show (which NBC will go to hell for canceling) is slumming as usual, his usual black side kick cop. Apparently its okay to do racist stereotypical depictions of minorities if you stick a bandanna on them and call them gang-members. I think one of the black gang-members was that rapper "MYSTIKAL". Sticking to the true ROMERO they have to learn to shoot the Zombies in the head. All news is coming from the lone TV (the black guy from "Bay-Watch nights") and it's about how people react to each other during this catastrophic disaster.

O.K. so it's not 'dawn of the dead' but it's still a movie I enjoyed watching as will most people who accept it for what it is, a low budget syfy channel type movie. A lot of negative reviews are being given because they are not comparing like for like.

I'm also a fan of C.Thomas Howell and the mock busters from 'the asylum' as they are so bad they are good. This was one of the better ones tho.

There are some funny scenes in it and the action was pretty good too. My only criticism was that the filming locations were a bit limited and the hot chick got taken out a bit too soon.

I was one of the fortunate few who got an invitation to an advance screening of "Mutant Vampire Zombies from the 'Hood." Like so many of you out there I have been waiting for this one for about a year, and with much trepidation. I think we were all hoping for the best, but fearing the worst. Well, I'm happy to report that these Mutant Vampire Zombies deliver. KeiKabou Holland and Maxie J. Santillan Jr. practically steal the movie, while Johanna Watts and Tyshawn Bryant ground the film with strong, believable performances. In fact, all the gang members are terrific--my only caveat is that their screen time is too brief. The script by Thunder Levin and George Saunders is fun--think more along the lines of an R-rated "The Mummy" than "Shaun of the Dead"--and Thunder's direction keeps the story going at a hurried pace. There's never a dull moment. The zombies look great, the action is crisp and the laughs work in all the right places. After all the waiting, I was happy to see that "Mutant Vampire Zombies from the 'Hood" lives up to the pure hokum fun its name implies.

Anyone rating this anything above a 2 must not be viewing the same movie I just watched. The dialog was awful, the camera work poor, the stock video footage was terrible, and the acting mediocre. There was no human actor on the screen you actually cared about.

There was tons of science flaws that even the common person can spot. The gasoline is non-flammable caused by solar radiation. People are mutating into blood sucking rapists that is caused by the same radiation. Yet when a person is bitten they somehow pass the genetic mutation to them? When are these writers going to learn that no explanation is better than flawed one. Cessna aircraft can fly on electric power? Electric cars drain back in the generator if it stops?

I have seen worse than this, they made a serious attempt at making a zombie flick but failed. Horror wasn't horrifying, the jokes and humor lame, the drama was thin, and the pseudo science was insulting.