The Supernaturals (1986)
Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a town of confederates. The corpses of the dead soldiers rise up to wreak revenge.
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Very best movie i ever watch
Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
The intrepid Phil Hardy nails "The Supernaturals" (1986) when he calls it a "bland zombie movie" ("Encyclopedia of Horror Film" 410). The plot is simple (much like 1964's "Two-Thousand Maniacs!"): a group of Yankee soldiers force some captured Confederates to walk through a minefield. The real atrocity is that the evil Yankee general forces a child to walk through the field also. Although he has promised freedom to any man who makes it through alive, he forces the child to walk through the field twice. One-hundred years later a group of moronic national guardsmen awaken the corpses of the killed Confederates. Again we have Hardy's accurate summary: "Sadly (director) Mastroianni makes little of the Southern setting, the rising body-count or the 19th-century zombies." Nichelle Nichols of "Star Trek" fame plays an unbelievably annoying drill sergeant. And why does everybody call her "Sir"? Isn't she a "Ma'am"?
I didn't like this movie although the premise is really good. These post-war zombie movies are very popular and this one is very decent. If done correctly, this movie would have the status of a respectable zombie movie. The cinematography is really good and plays a key part in the most important scenes, for example, the ending.The f/x are really are cheesy but work for the movie's purpose. Still I can't recommend this movie for it's visuals... in fact, it's a boring movie with a lot of wasted potential.Watch it only if you get it for free. I catched it on late cable many years ago and I can't say that I regret about it, but I wouldn't watch it again!Try "Stryker's War" for a more entertaining movie in the likes of this one.
I've read some pretty extreme (both positive and negative) reviews for this movie, but it's really a very middle-of-the-road affair. It's directed competently enough to keep you from feeling that you totally wasted your time with it, but it's also so derivative that it can even be called a ripoff (especially of Herschell Gordon Lewis' "Two Thousand Maniacs"; it has practically the same plot). The opening sequence is the best. (**)
The plot is good, it's quite interesting but cheesy special effects, and bad acting make this a bad movie. The zombies are laughable, and the ending is... more than laughable. Avoid this one at all costs!