This movie plays on the worst sorts of stereotypes of women, lesbians, the challenged, and little people. Including the biker sluts who are the only ones with the balls to stand up to them. They get out of hand (of course) and start eating everyone in sight. It’s mostly about a group of biker chicks who HAPPEN to be in a town with some really horrible zombies.Īfter some underground nuclear tests irradiated the mines in the area making them unfit for humans to work in, this guy, the undertaker, decides to create a race of slave zombies to work the mine for whatever’s down there. It’s hard to articulate but it really is a great representation of it’s times. The clothes, the pop culture at the time. So my overwhelming feeling watching this movie is a connection to the context it came out in. It’s just a time I connect to really well. Cheap jokes, goofy acting, shitty music but a weird feeling of greatness and for me, nostalgia. This is sort of like watching the last hurrah of Troma. 1989 was an INCREDIBLE year for movies.īut guess what movie isn’t on the top 100 list.Ĭhopper Chicks in Zombietown. According to Box Office Mojo, the top grossing movies of 1989 when this movie came out were: 1Ī Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child Think about this little nugget of movie goodness.
Try to imagine Terminator 2 hasn’t been made yet. Everyone is already looking back on how awesome the decade was and wondering what the 90’s have in store. If you do get around to this movie try to imagine it’s the late 80’s. People making some goofy, gross movies and having a good time doing it. Video was a lot more forgiving than digital and most people’s expectations of cheap thrills were a lot lower than they are today.
That being said, Troma was awesome for the time when it was at its height. At its worst, it’s exploitative and chinsy.
Troma at it’s best is playfully antiestablishment, cheap fun. Fortunately I realized just before watching this that it’s a Troma movie and actually one of the last movies they released in theaters.
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