Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill

While traveling in a van with their teacher for a contest, a group of college friends are abducted in a lonely road by the criminal Earl (Gregory Bastien), who forces them to go to the ghost town of Sunset Valley to meet his partner that was transporting drugs and money of their own. Once in the town, they realize that the dwellers are zombies and their leader is the evil Bloody Bill (Jeremy Bouvet), a Confederate soldier seeking revenge for the execution of his sister that was hanged by the population that was cursed by Bloody Bill for the eternity.

"Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill" could have funny lines and situations but it is too serious for a zombie movie. Further, the zombies move very fast, breaking the style originally adopted by George Romero in "Night of the Living Dead" and followed in other films of this genre. The story is predictable and the characters are forgettable, but the worst is the total lack of humor. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "Vale da Morte: A Vingança de Bloody Bill" ("Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill")

I've waded through lots of zombie movies trying to find some good ones.And since Romero has only made 5 there aren't very many good ones among the loads of stinkers out there.This one was one of the worst pieces of homemade garbage I've seen yet in my quest to find good zombie movies.

A group of what look to be mostly 20 year olds set off in a van on what I think was a going to a trip to a debating contest.Along the way they get hijacked by a dope dealer who is trying to find his partner who has disappeared out in the Arizona landscape somewhere.Anyway the group tracks the dope dealer to a ghost town in the middle of nowhere.Shortly after arriving the kids are attacked by the missing dope dealer who is all bloody and talks kinda funny.

So immediately one of the debaters starts rattling off about the legend of Bloody Bill,a confederate solider ,who ended up out west after the war was over.Legend has it that Bill swore revenge on the town-folk who had killed him for bad stuff he did in the war.How they linked the wounded dope dealer up to Bloody Bill so quick was sort of glossed over and the kid who knew all the details was obviously and painfully reading his lines as we watched flashbacks of how Bill came to be.

Anyway the town soon becomes alive with Bill's zombies who run from one old building to another ,as do the kids,in what sometimes looks like a Benny Hill chase scene without being anywhere near as entertaining.All we needed was "Yakety Sax" as background music.

Speaking of music this film had one,what I took to be,death metal song with idiotic lyrics that was played over and over and over.But really so much was wrong with this film it isn't hardly worth mentioning it all.The zombies were those kind that were just sort of halfway done, no well done zombie make up here. In the flesh eating scenes,which there are very few, we see the cheapo looking rubber stuff instead of the real looking latex standing in for human flesh.In one scene a grenade goes off downstairs but in the shot outside we see the blast and smoke coming out an upstairs window.

One guy runs around and around trying to escape the zombies but all the while keeps one hand on his Kenny Chesney looking cowboy hat to keep from losing it.No one in this film could act their way out of a wet paper bag.The plot and script were terrible and the special effects were as crappy as any I've seen.

In short,this whole mess looks exactly like what it is.....a bunch of lame asses making a zombie movie without one single shred of talent whatsoever.It turns out looking like the homemade junk that it is.

Hey I only paid a buck for this thing at Wal-Mart and I wish I had my dollar back.Yeah it was that bad.

why are zombies running now? must we break all rules? anyway...this movie has a horrible script...period. Also the camera work and editing were wayyy off. the zombies looked OK but bill looked like he was wearing a Halloween mask. People are talking about good gore in this film. WRONG. Good gore can be found in the Living Dead series...this my friend is horrible gore. I did kind of like the eating of the hand part but it was shot in such a weird way. i give the writers and the director a little credit just because this is a rather knew idea. There really is only so far you can take a zombie flick but these guys managed to give it a different spin. Still...that can't save such a horrible film and a half crap horror film. Watch it for originality but don't buy it or spend any money on it. If you find some homeless dude asleep in the alley clutching a copy of death valley...it might be worth the steal...but i warned you.

Bloody Bill is indeed a bloody awful film. Its soundtrack is very irritating, there is no single atmospheric tune, just irritating rock/metal crap! The zombies actually run and talk! So far it sounds dodgy, doesn't it? In addition, there is a stupid criminal called Bloody Bill who dominates the zombies. Are real zombies dominated by anyone? I certainly don't think so!

The story is about a drugs smuggler who is forced to run away since he is chased by a cop, he escapes from the cop to a Abandoned town in which the dead rise and Bloody Bill rise! The drugs smuggler is killed by the zombies. However, The partner of the drugs smuggler wants his dope. Therefore, he doesn't give up and forces a bunch of young people to help him find his dead partner since they have a car. The whole group arrives at that abandoned town, and they find out that the dead and Bloody Bill reigns it!

I know that this description sounds good, but trust me, it's bloody awful! There are few gore and action scenes which can entertain, however ,This film is just bloody awful, and those gore and action scenes don't improve this worthless film. I cannot recommend it to the old school zombies fans since it's a terrible new school on. I even think that the remake of Dawn Of The Dead is much better than this worthless new school zombies movie. 2/10

First and foremost, I worked on the set of Death Valley, so I may be a bit biased. The cast was great to work with for the most part. (There was a primadonna or two, but I won't name names) Byron's got enough experience under his belt now that his camera work is really starting to take off. The editing was fantastic considering I saw the "raw" footage while on set. This was my first production and I now look at movies a totally different way. Richard Miranda (El Intermedio, Way of the Vampire, and Army of Darkness) was superb at bringing the blood and gore of a zombie town to life. The soundtrack was awesome and really brought out the mood of the film. The ending, which I didn't see shot as I was on another portion of the set, was a great surprise. All in all, for the indie horror film world, this was great.