Dead & Rotting

This has to be one of the worst "horror" films i have ever seen...and i've seen hundreds! I could name tons of "B-Horror Films" that are more professional and entertaining than this piece of garbage. First off, the plot is so stupid it's not even funny. Secondly, the acting is pathetic even for a super-low-budget movie. Thirdly, the "Monsters" in the film couldn't even scare a pre-schooler! I'd be more entertained sitting in silence than watching this again. Oh yeah, the film clocks in at 72 minutes in length...and that's 71 minutes too long!

Through Tempe I've become a big Bookwalter fan. This title is one of my favorites. I really like the story, and the rhyme. 3 high school buddies all work at a construction company in a small town in Ohio. The company is owned by Hollis, the head monkey in the group. His buddies, JP & Eric, provide comic relief just by being themselves. Anyway, they all work together by day and by night they hang out in local bar. This is where we meet "Jackal-boy" aka Pox. He comes into the bar and orders a ($5) bowl of milk, which he laps at happily. Then the waitress passes by with something furry hanging out of her back pocket. Being the playful sort, Pox grabs at it. In true hero fashion, Hollis defends the bar wenche's honor and chases Pox from the bar. Well, ol' Pox decides to egg Hollis' truck and trouble ensues. They kick the crap out of him. Poor kitty. Anyway, he (Pox) gets home and momma swears she'll get back at them. She finds the boys outside the bar and gives them a taste of what it is to be dead and rotting (powder blown in face). They all wake up ill the next day and start plotting their revenge. To avoid retalliation, they hire 2 local stoners (Shugi & Asher) to throw rocks at the old witches house, maybe tear the place up. Instead they "accidentally" boil her cat - Pox. Turns out Pox was her son. This gets the hag o'plottin. She changes herself into a beautiful young nymph and shows up at the boys' watering hole. I can see where Hollis might have a chance with her, but my suspicions would have been raised when she showed interest in JP & Eric. Anyway, they all go home together and she takes turns banging their collective brains out. Later she expels three lovely mucus babies and plants each one inside a pumpkin. These "mature" and turn into zombies to do her bidding. Then the fun starts. JP & Eric are quickly caught and potted - along with one of the stoners- complete with trees growing out of their heads. They're kept alive with a potion that allows them to experience their own rotting. MMMM. Rotting. That's where the rhyme comes in. Memorize it if you can. It's great for torturing co-workers. Of course, Hollis and Asher want to save their friends... So, they enlist Asher's ex-girlfriend, who happens to be into the occult. They drive cross-county - Hollis loses a finger - and then they come back to flash fry the witch. This movie had EVERYTHING. The acting, though flat at times, was better than just about anything I've seen under the name Full Moon. I still miss Pox....

I love Full Moon movies a great deal. I've been a fan of Charles Band's works in Empire and then Full Moon since the beginning. I've seen every single one, how could i not be a fan???

I have no idea why a no-budget horror movie like this got released by Full Moon. I honestly enjoy B-movies if they are good. Dead & Rotting was a true pain to sit through until the end. I got the impression this was made for under $10,000 and it looks like it too.

Where to begin? The entire look of the film just does not look ricorrect. I guess this was shot on digital camera, and i despise that cheap look. The acting was another bad thing, almost every performance was atrocious and shallow. Bad acting can work in some instances, however bad acting and a mediocre script will almost always fail. Well there's Troma films, but D&R isn't even similar to their low-budget comedic style. D&R's main problem is a script that is too slow with nothing new or inventive for the genre.

I give Dead & Rotting a 2 stars rating out of a possible 10 stars rating. I've seen worse horror movies before, but not very many.

Just posting a slight warning about this Full Moon release to all you zombie movie lovers. Although it somehow doesn't quite reach the depths of awfulness as such stink bombs as Zombie Lake and Oasis of the Zombies, this zero budget videotaped horror effort (shot somewhere in the bowels of rural Ohio) is definitely one to avoid. The story is silly (and full of VERY obvious lapses in logic and general coherence), the photography is terrible, the direction is bland and devoid of imagination and the make-up is pretty average. What's even worse? The acting! What an insultingly untalented group of 'thespians' they gathered up here!

Three friends feel the wrath of a witch who makes herself youthful and beautiful to avenge the death of her son. She sleeps with all three of the guys and gives birth to creatures the results of their encounters that go about and kill the three friends. Interesting premise could have been so much more, but this film is given the extremely low budget treatment instead. It features amateur night direction and F/X and bores to no end. Rated R.