Zombie Nightmare

Plot synopsis:
A little boy named Tony Washington (Jesse D'Angelo) watches his father William Washington (John Fasano) play in a baseball game. On the way home Tony, William and Tony's mother Louise (Francesca Bonacorsa) see a young girl (Tracy Biddle) about to be raped by two teenagers. William saves the young girl from being raped but is killed when one of the rapists fatally stabs him.
Years pass and Tony (Jon Mikl Thor), now a musclebound teenage baseball player, is leaving a small grocery store where he had helped disrupt an attempted robbery. As he steps out of the store and into the road, he is run over by a gang of reckless teenagers consisting of Bob (Allan Fisler), Amy (Tia Carrere), Jim (Shawn Levy), Peter (Hamish McEwan), and Susie (Manon E. Turbide) and is killed. After his body is brought to his mother, Louise, she contacts one of her neighbors, a voodoo priestess, named Molly (Manuska Rigaud) to save her son. Molly explains to Louise that although she is unable to restore her son back to life, she can keep him between a state of life and death long enough for him to avenge himself. After Louise agrees, Molly resurrects Tony as a zombie, then uses her powers to aid him in his revenge.
The next night, the now zombified Tony is able to track down Peter and Susie at an academy's gymnasium and kills Peter by breaking his neck then Susie by crushing her skull with a baseball bat. The night afterwards, he is able to find and kill Jim by impaling him with the same bat before the latter could rape a waitress. Police detective Frank Sorrell (Frank Dietz) is soon investigating both incidents and initially agrees with a coroner that a large built, drug-fueled man is responsible. Sorrell brings his suspicions to his boss, police captain Tom Churchman (Adam West) and is told by him that they have already managed to find a suspect responsible that matches Sorrell's description and closes the case.
Believing that the case has not been fully solved, Sorrell investigates photos that has Molly at both incidents and suggests to Churchman that they bring her in for questioning. However the captain quickly dismisses her as a "batty, voodoo palm reader that follows ambulances around" and sends him home to rest. Shortly afterwards, Churchman contacts Jim's father, Fred, and informs him of Molly's involvement in his son's death, then tells him to come to the police station. Before Fred could leave his home, he sees Tony approaching him and shoots him with a rifle. Tony quickly recovers and breaks Fred's neck, killing him.
Knowing that they will be next, Bob and Amy decide to leave town. While at a garage getting money, Tony finds them and kills Bob by bashing his head against a car, then does the same to Amy against a door. While monitoring Tony's actions, Molly is held at gunpoint by Churchman to come with him and forced to show where Tony is going. The zombie makes his way to a cemetery with Sorrell following him. Molly and Churchman soon arrive, with both telling Sorrell that the priestess resurrected Tony to not only avenge himself, but also Molly herself as Churchman and Fred were the two that tried to rape her years ago, and that the captain was also the one who had killed Tony's father. Having learned that a zombie will lose its energy once it has avenged itself, Churchman shoots and kills Tony, then Molly as well. Before he could do the same to Sorrell to silence him as a witness, a second zombie rises out of a nearby grave and drags Churchman into the ground with him, presumably to Hell. A shocked Sorrell then inspects the grave and realizes the second zombie was Tony's father, then leaves.

Tags: revenge, murder

Review:
Never before have so few words so fittingly summed up a film as the VideoHound Movie Guide's entry on ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE.
But what our friends at VideoHound forgot to mention is that ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE is also occasionally (and unintentionally) hilarious in the tradition of awful movies from yesteryear.Jon Mikl Thor plays a muscle-bound lunkhead who heads to the corner store for Momma one fateful night.
Soon the goon is up and around once more, only he's not nearly as friendly as he now screams a lot and clobbers the hit-and-runners with a baseball bat.ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE is like PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE in that everyone will have their own favorite example of its ineptitude.
The zombie's appearance becomes increasingly ridiculous as the film progresses, going from Lunkhead to some Munster-looking dude with short black hair.
That said, there is a certain perverse pleasure in seeing a man we all know and love from childhood being dragged into the cruel depths of hell by a born-again corpse.It's quite stunning that that something like ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE was able to clear all the hurdles involved in seeing a a film come to fruition.
To put it mildly, this ain't exactly "THE LION OF WINTER", but it'll do.Everyone's favorite steel-bending rock god thespian, Jon Mikl Thor of the aptly-named metal band THOR, plays a dork in a hooded sweatshirt who becomes victim to a hit-and-run by Tia Carrere and Co.
One by one, the no-good teenagers meet their end by the hands of the zombified dork in the hooded sweatshirt.Halfway into the film, Adam West makes a welcome appearance, playing the local police chief who may have something to do with the intricate proceedings.
Get the picture?For those who may ponder Adam West's involvement in such a film, allow me to put it into perspective, how many actors can say they've worked with The Three Stooges AND Jon Mikl Thor?
MST covered this one and did a good job with it.(The quote is from the first zombie attack.) And as I recall, Adam West even introduced their cover of it for its first broadcast during a "Turkey Day" Thanksgiving marathon.
For instance, the movie stops dead in its tracks at one points and spends 2-3 minutes watching a mediocre tennis match between the tall, lanky mall punk and his blond girlfriend.
When the hero/zombie-to-be gets run over by the mall punks at the beginning of the movie, his mother doesn't call a doctor, call an ambulance, or start CPR, she calls her local voodoo practitioner "Molly Mokembe" so she can go about getting revenge for her son's death.
Even Jon Mikl Thor is, well, not as bad as he could be, although it's pretty obvious that the project began to overwhelm him and he was forced to get another actor to play the zombie for some scenes.
Years later, the man's son is hit by a bunch of jerks in a Mercedes and his angry mother gets the local voodoo priestess to resurrect her son in order to exact revenge on his killers."Zombie Nightmare" is a very bad movie.
So don't believe the hype--it's just not 100% horrible--just 98.7% bad!I was excited to see that this film stars Adam West and Jon Mikl Thor.
Thor is also the guy who played the lead in the terrible "Rock 'n Roll Nightmare"--and like in that film, he and his bad provide some of the music for this movie.
As a boy, Tony Washington witnesses the fatal stabbing of his father after he goes to the rescue of a young black woman, Molly Mokembe, who is being sexually molested by two teenage thugs.Cut to the present day, and Tony (now played by heavy metal singer Jon Mikl Thor) is a musclebound, long-haired baseball player who, like his father, has no time for hoodlums: when his local grocery store is held up by armed robbers, Tony steps in and saves the day (the Italian shopkeeper is-a so-a grateful, he lets-a Tony have his-a groceries for-a nothing!).Unfortunately, as Tony crosses the road with his freebies, he is run down and killed by a gang of no-good punks, lead by psycho Jim Batten (played by Shaun Levy, now a successful Hollywood director).
Armed with his trusty metal baseball bat, shuffling zombie Tony goes looking for revenge.As I type, Zombie Nightmare is currently sitting at #53 on IMDb's bottom 100 movies (most likely thanks to being featured on MST3K); but while I cannot deny that the film is no classic of the zombie genre, and is sadly lacking in both the gore and nudity one expects from 80s trash (a blonde cutie in her underwear doesn't cut it), neither is it deserving of such contempt.
I've seen hundreds of films that are tougher to endure than this one, which at least entertains with its 80s cheesiness and sheer silliness.Boasting a rocking metal soundtrack courtesy of Motorhead, Girlschool, Thor, Deathmask and Fist (no, I've never heard of the last two bands either), an early performance from Wayne's World babe Tia Carrere (schwing!), Adam 'Batman' West as a police captain with a dark secret, hilariously bad zombie make-up, terrible acting (Manuska's Haitian voodoo routine is a masterclass in over-acting), some really nasty 80s fashion, and a fun finale in a foggy cemetery (smoke machine on overdrive!) that sees West dragged to hell, Zombie Nightmare is definitely worth a go for fans of z-grade horror..
Teenagers run-down a man in their car, a local voodoo woman turns him into a zombie, and said zombie then seeks revenge against the foolish teenagers.Cheap, 80's style horror cheese falls flat on every level.
You know it's all about the music when the bands take opening credit just after the stars.The cast, which only has Adam West for a known star, is pretty bad.
The only interesting character is Shawn Levy as a big-haired teen thug (who throws noodles at his mom!), but he makes a rather premature exit from the movie.A lame entry in the 80's teen horror scene, but it's still not as bad as Rick Sloan's Hobgoblins (1987)!BOMB out of ****.
The zombie rock tune at the beginning of the film (as bad as it is) is probably the highlight.
Usually what is unearthed is bad, which is a shame, because the zombie genre is flooded with releases that are unwatchable and laughable attempts at being movies.Such was also the case with "Zombie Nightmare".
In fact, it was actually so bad that I had to turn it off, and didn't make it through to the end.The story in the movie is about a group of young kids who accidentally run down young aspiring baseball guy.
He returns as an reanimated zombie who sets out to seek revenge on those who killed him.It was hard to believe that this movie was from 1987, because it just screamed late 70's or early 80's production and movie-making.The acting in the movie was actually fair enough, though there was nothing impressive to behold here.
And I don't got to see Adam West, because I gave up on the movie before he entered the movie (or at least I didn't notice him)."Zombie Nightmare" is so cheesy, campy and bad that it is bound to give you a zombie nightmare indeed if you manage to stick with it to the very end..
Beefhead comes back to life (with an enthusiastic and laughable roar!) and kills off the teen gang in a series of hugely dull attacks while the police cover it up for no real reason.This movie has Adam West in it and you can easily wring some entertainment from the film by attempting your Adam West accent while watching thus saving this movie from a one star rating.
It's also got a policeman who sounds like his voice is breaking, a wildly unlikely depiction of how the police operate and another cop who seems to be eleven years old.It doesn't really make a whole lot of sense but if you like really bad movies then it is sure to entertain you.
Late Night Fun. This silly film was obviously meant to be a serious film, but thanks to lousy acting (including an appearance from Adam "Batman" West), bad special effects and a stupid rock soundtrack, it is closer to a horror spoof.
Admittedly, this film is laughably bad in every way, yes, but if you can find the MST3K version you'll have a great time.
They rip it too shreds and the Adam West "..I'm Batman..." gags are worth the tape price alone.As a standalone movie your time is better spent watching cheese curdle, but with Joel and the gang, it's not at all bad....
Horror fans in general will be disappointed because the movie is slow moving and boring (despite plenty of bad dialogue and awful effects).
And bad movie fans will be disappointed, because this film is just really bad and not even in a good way.
Zombie Nightmare is one of those "funny in a bad way" movies that's actually quite endearing.
Big, heavy metal dude gets killed by punks, then gets turned into a zombie and seeks revenge.
I guess the director didn't study physics.Most horror films are pretty bad, but this one is so bad it needed Horror Movie Helper (MST3K).
Zombie Nightmare has no redeeming value whatsoever, although it's actually probably a high point of Adam West's career.
An innocent is killed, only to be ressurected to avenge his death, while bad heavy metal blares on the soundtrack--Though including Motorhead's "Ace of Spades" was a great idea!
Jon-Mikl Thor does seem like an incredibly stupid fellow, but a year after this he blessed us with the much better (or is it worse?) "Rock N' Roll Nightmare," which is so much more ridiculous, so much more inept, because, I can't help believing, Thor wrote it!!!!
I think my favorite moment in the film is the scene in which Molly Mekembe, the Haitian voodoo priestess, is contacted to revive the recently deceased Tony.
It sounds like a decent premise for a horror movie, but like "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Zombie Nightmare" is not very scary at all.
While I can think of worse movies, I'm pretty sure that Tia Carrere and Adam West would prefer to forget this one and hope everyone else would do the same.
Still, "Zombie Nightmare" is worth a look via M.S.T. 3K, or if you're up for a "golden turkey" hunt for bad--yet nominally charming--films.
I meant psychopathic) and his mother wants to resurrect him so she gets a voodoo priestess to resurrect him as a zombie and he has to kill his killers so he can become completely human again.The plot is silly in itself - which can make way for an okay B Movie but this doesn't go to the level of "so bad it's fun".
Zombie Nightmare (1987) 1/2 (out of 4) As a young kid Tony saw his father murdered a couple punks after he tried to stop them from raping a girl.
His mother can't believe she's lost a husband and now a son so she has a voodoo princess bring Tony back so he can seek revenge.ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE is yet another film from the 80's that was made for very little money and the results are pretty awful.
There really isn't anything good about this picture except for the Motorhead soundtrack and the brief appearance by Adam West, the original TV Batman.I watched this movie the same day news broke that West had passed away.
As I was watching this movie it struck me that I had rented this on VHS as a kid but I remember turning it off half-way through because of how bad it was.
The film's opening credits feature Motorhead's Ace of Spades and that's certainly the highlight of this watered-down and rather lame horror movie..
When this episode first appeared, Adam West, who was in the movie, actually hosted a marathon of MST3K episodes that led up to the premier of this film on Comedy Central.
The episode though was funny, my favorite joke being when the bat wielding zombie was chasing the blond and Servo goes, "George Romero's, Casey's at bat!" So, in the end a bad film that was notable because of Adam West's appearance and I guess Tia Carrere.
Top-billed actor Adam West only appears for about ten minutes in total in this movie, and during his scenes you can tell that he isn't exactly pleased to find at this point in his career that he's down to doing an extended cameo in a cheap Canadian zombie movie.
So the movie is inept enough to be worth watching for fans of so-bad-it's-good cinema.
A baseball playing jock just got creamed (as in killed) by a gang of trendy punks, his grief-struck mother takes his body to a mysterious voodoo priestess who magically revives him as a murderous zombie who seeks revenge on those that killed him.A stupendously awful 1987 Canadian zombie film that co-stars Adam West and Tia Carrea but not even those 2 actors could save this mess of a film.
So, here is an opportunity for me to rate one as low without fear of retaliatory acts, as this film, even the makers must admit, deserves no stars other than one star for the one star in the film, Adam West.This movie shows just how horrible low budget productions were from the 80's, but they were even worse in the 70's.I didn't like watching these movies in recent years, but my eldest son told me to watch them as comedic, rather than as horror/sci-Fi movies.
I won't even bother attempting to delve into the "plot", flimsy and inconsequential as it is, but let's just say it involves heavy metal bonehead Thor running around in a rubber mask, Adam West as a detective, and Tia Carrere as a demented voodoo priestess.
There's one scene where a zombie chases a girl through a recreational facility with embarrassing cuts back and forth between the girl who is 'leisurely jogging' as the MST3k bots put it and the slowest and least menacing zombie in the history of film.This is one of few movies which is actually just about unbearable without either teaming up with a bunch of people to rip it apart or watching the MST3k version (which is hilarious, by the way, one of the best).
The only things remotely entertaining about the movie are the laughably bad sexual innuendo and the obvious: Adam West.
I can't see why anyone that isn't obsessive like myself would want to watch the original version of this film.
It's pretty much bad in every way a movie can be.
I've used this expression several times recently, but Gawd awful also applies to Zombie Nightmare.Actually, I do have one positive thing to write about the movie.
Actually, there is only one zombie in the whole movie and he spends his time killing the teenage punks who killed him instead of chewing on guts like in Fulci or Romero movies.
Has some unintentionally funny dialogue from Adam West but pretty much one to bypass unless you need to see every movie with the word "zombie" in it..
However, a true zombie movie it's not, as it has only one...although because of the obvious actor changes, it seems like more sometimes.
But the zombies would be pretty much most of the Canadian actors in the movie, and the nightmare comes from having to view this atrocity.
Yeah, that makes sense.Enter Adam West, on a long downward spiral from his Batman days, playing a cop so unpleasant that he should be working in L.A. He and a skinny kid detective(who looks about nineteen, frankly) are called in for a series of bizarre murders, generally involving a baseball bat(the zombie weapon of choice).
Pretty Bad. When "Tony Washington" (Jon Mikl Thor) is accidentally killed in an auto accident his mother goes to a voodoo priestess named "Molly Mokembe" (Manuska Rigaud) to avenge his death.
The story sees the posturing good guy Jon Mikl Thor killed in a hit and run accident and returning from the grave as the cheesiest zombie ever to get revenge on the teen gang who ran him down.
Zombie Nightmare is famous for thrash legend Jon Mikl Thor's lengthy cameo in the opening half of the film.
Zombie Nightmare is far from being the worst slasher movie released during the peak period, but I really could only find very little to recommend.
Bias aside, I think this is a pretty OK film, and by OK I mean, very mediocre, but it doesn't deserve the low score it has.The plot is a bit silly, considering that a) there is a local neighborhood voodoo priestess, and b), when the hero is run over, his mother doesn't even attempt to call an ambulance, but goes directly to her local voodoo priestess demanding she turned her son into a zombie for revenge.
Zombie Nightmare: 2 out of 10: Ah late Eighties Heavy Metal Canadian Horror.
He is killed by a group of teenagers in a hit and run and is resurrected by a Voodoo princess to seek his revenge.In zombie form, Thor resembles a confused mime and the focus on the story quickly moves to the fine detective work on display by top cop Adam West.
You would think that a movie with zombies(two of 'em!),bloody revenge, Tia Carrere,voodoo, a weird voodoo priestess, heavy metal music, pasta flingin', screamin', and nanananana Batmaaan would have at least some entertainment value.
I have to say, Zombie nightmare is one of my all-time favorite episodes of that show.
Then one of the teen's fathers gets killed for some reason that isn't really explained, after which the Voodoo woman, Adam West and the detective go off to the cemetery where we get this freaky twist ending that doesn't contribute to the movie, doesn't really make any sense, and doesn't really conclude anything.