Zombie Beach Party

I bought this on eBay after being lured in by that Kirbyesque cover, only to actually receive one with a much crummier Photoshopped cover of scenes in the movie. It may sound lame, but it dampened my enthusiasm for the movie and I didn't end up watching it for two weeks.

Anyway, it was decent fun. The first ten minutes or so were boring and I nearly cut the DVD off until the hot goth gas pump attendant appeared. Then more boring for another ten minutes or so, and the movie finally started kicking into gear. Some decent wrestling, lots of excessive blood, nice looking but still fake body parts for the zombies to nibble on, topless yacht captains. Part of the movie takes place in an abandoned amusement park, and they try to do one of those Scooby-Doo things where A runs in one door while B runs out the other trying to catch A. So there's that.

Did I mention how hot that tattooed goth chick is? Pretty hot. I would have been mad if the zombies got her, fortunately she ends up with a somewhat happy ending.

This movie was made to watch and laugh at. It was on afternoon TV, and thats the category it should be judged in. It's cheesy, the acting is dubious, and make up is terrible. All of that comes together in a way that makes it campy fun. Don't watch it expecting Titanic or Dawn of the Dead; think Lost Skeleton of Cadavera, and you'll be on the right track. Just turn off the higher functions, crack a beer, and relax. Its a movie where Luchador heroes battle outrageous villains that would be at home in any Saban live action show, with over the top everything and a decent soundtrack to boot. I can only hope that more equally cheesy movies come out to balance the epic films that seem to be in vogue right now. Viva los Luchadors!

I can't believe that a movie that is supposed to be about both luchadore wrestlers and zombies is somehow boring, but somehow this braindead, zero budget doo-doo-fest came along and proved me wrong.

Apparently I have to write more lines so I guess I will give more info and details... uh... so this boring movie is very dull. I wouldn't have believed it could be this sleep inducing but it proved me completely, totally, unfortunately wrong, wrong, wrong. So very wrong indeed that I had to write about it using as many words as possible.

Still more? Okay then. The acting stinks, the filmmaker is completely devoid of any talent either as a writer or cinematographer or even editing, because even that stood out as crappy. I guess the sound was okay and even some of the music, although I can't really remember any specifics about that. Talk about bad acting, particularly the small parts in this were basically played by people who are not just pulled randomly off the street, it seems like they don't even want to be there or care at all about what they are making.

Do yourself a big fave and skip this terribly boring, pointless mess of a movie. Even as a huge zombie fan who watches every zombie film I can get my hands on, I wish I had skipped this one and just re-watched one of the Living Dead movies or a couple episodes of TWD instead.

I was so excited to see this movie. Original idea in the plot summary, great cover art. The costumes and the characters interested me from the front.

But BLAM the dullness of the movie hit me Sooooo hard that it demolished all hope to enjoy this poorly made effort. The characters had zero development beyond them being introduced. I really didn't give a damn about any of them surviving, they were strangers through the whole thing. The "babe"(Mercedes) was not really a babe at all, I was almost glad that I couldn't see the rest of her face. Ulysses was so flat I could use his character as a coaster, and thats really a problem when he's supposed to be the hero. What was with his lame clothes. A Mexican wrestler would never wear anything so dull, especially a true hero. Think back to the BLUE DEMON & SANTO, and all the great Mexican wrestling monster movies of the 70's. They could really rip apart zombies and look good doing it, not the group of reject uggos in this waste of time. Half way through, I really wanted it to end. The story and characters were not progressing any further after the first 20 min, and the movie just kept eating up my time... The one redeeming character was Tiki, I almost wanted to know more about him, he was the only character who seemed to have any passions or emotions at all. But the makers were ridiculously trying to up-sell Ulysses the whole damn movie, and he was very very bland. I hope the makers all have day jobs. The guy at subway who made my sandwich contributes more to the world than this project.

After hearing his potential nemesis has returned, a masked wrestler decides to check out his activities and finds that a series of domesticated zombies are running loose in the community being brought about by the returning madman for a special show and must try to stop the nefarious plans.

Overall, this was an immensely fun cheesy genre throwback. Among its better features here is the highly effective setup that provides this one with a great look and feel reminiscent of the luchador films of the past. Featuring rather obvious nods and homages in the appearance and presence of the main luchador wrestlers as leads in the film who follow pretty much the entire role of the characters from the past films inherently well, the use of colorful presentation screens for each of the characters, and a series of silly storylines coming together to create a wild scenario, this one is quite fun overall. Those series of storylines here are rather fun as the wildly over-the-top storyline involving the use of a mad scientist trying to create a human/zombie hybrid to create an army of super-zombie soldiers in a ploy to overtake the world while operating on the outskirts of a storyline featuring the main hero looking into an old rivals' use of zombies in his show simply completes the picture with this one incredibly well. That allows for a spectacular series of cheesy and silly action scenes involving the luchadores fighting not just each other but also the hordes of zombies. As the first half goes for the idea of the rival being reckless with the domesticated zombies in his shows and finding them getting loose to commit the murders, this focuses more on the fighters going after each other while we see the zombie swarming scenes taking place to provide some solid gore scenes. That leads nicely into the series of confrontations that take place in the finale where the action takes place at the abandoned theme park hideout where the encounters featuring various henchmen and zombies are shown to take place throughout the locations with all sorts of lucha libre-styled fighting against the opponents in some fun battles. This might be way too cheesy and silly for some as the whole idea for this one comes off so wild that it's hard to take seriously, especially with so many characters trying to make sense of what's going on here, which is enough to hold it back.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity, and mild drug use.