FleshEater (1988)

good back-story, and good acting

Crappy film

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

I haven't even seen all of this movie, but I really loved what I did catch. (on Bizarre TV on Roku.) Clearly low on funds and with little regard paid to convention I bet this hidden gem had a shot at VHS infamy, though sadly it was not in the cards. It's dedication to practical Gore effects and lack of dedication to typical story beats make it a stand out IMO, and a more interesting specimen in this knock off genre than many infamous Italian entries.

Now this is no night of the living dead but what it is its fun great zombiploitation if you will.Starts off with some young people on a hayride going to drink beer and have some fun.This tractor riding dude unearthed zombie bill hinzman than all hell breaks loose lots of gore nudity and sleaze exploitation for sure the DVD is wonderful media blasters do a great job with their product and this is a fin example.If your a fan of zombies exploitation and cheesy 80s cinema buy this!Also its a zombie movie that happens to be set on Halloween sweet and yes the movie is somewhat of a rip off of the original night of the living dead but who cares its exploitation and its mighty entertaining.

I first heard about this movie from MST3K's Mike Nelson when he did the commentary for Night of the Living Dead and I was fortunate enough to find it online. Well, I was about twenty-one minutes in and I was already bored enough to wonder how much blood I could lose before the end of the movie. Honestly, this movie is nothing but a horror director's wet dream, specifically the number of bare female chests seen throughout the movie, not the mention the all important full frontal female nude shower scene somewhere toward the middle of the movie. It's got the suspense of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the gore of the original Dawn of the Dead, and the acting of an educational video I saw in the sixth grade about nutrition. So, in closing, take another minute to think about ways you could throw an hour and a half of your life away instead of sitting through this slasher porn.

"FleshEater" (aka. "The Zombie Nosh") of 1988 is a hilariously clumsy Zombie flick in which none other than Bill Hinzman served as writer, director and star. The name Bill Hinzman will not necessarily ring a bell, but his face should be known to every Horror fan, since the man is known for his small, but highly memorable role in George A. Romero's 1968 milestone "Night Of The Living Dead". "FleshEater" is an absolutely inept mess, but nonetheless (or, more precisely, therefore) partly very amusing. While the film ranks among the dumbest Zombie flicks of the 80s (and that's quite something with all these clumsy Romero/Fulci ripoffs), I can not deny that I was very entertained. Apart from Bill Hinzman, the film entertains with a lot of (often very clumsy) gore, and occasional female nudity, which was probably thrown in to keep the viewers watching. The (unintended?) crap-factor of "FleshEater", however, is its arguably greatest quality. The storyline is an incoherent mess, and the performances are incredibly awful, even for an ultra-low budget, the dialogue is the most ridiculous imaginable. A bunch of College kids decide to spend the night in the woods drinking. An undead guy (played by Hinzman) then awakes for no reason, and begins to attack people, who are subsequently turned into Zombies too. The second half of the film is basically an (awful) homage to NOTLD in which several elements of Romero's "Dead" films are shamelessly copied, and re-enacted in an awful manner. Overall, "FleshEater" is an awful film, but it is nonetheless quite amusing for my fellow fans of the sub-genre. Also, it seems as if everybody involved with this was well aware that the film was a piece of crap, and just had fun making it. Some of the acting is just too damn amateurish to be unintentional. Bill Hinzman, gore, and an overload of amusing awfulness - Take it, or leave it, I had a good laugh.