10 Horror Films To Get You In The Mood For Halloween
7. Junk
If you’re looking for a movie about a jewel thief fighting an undead army ruled by a naked zombie queen, look no further. After ripping off Reservoir Dogs with The Score (1995), director Atsushi Moroga again pays ‘homage’ to Quentin Tarantino with another botched heist movie, this time pitting his protagonists against walking corpses. Call it From Dusk Till Dawn Of The Dead.
Following a bungled robbery, three men and their female getaway driver escape to a US Army facility in Japan, unaware it’s being used to store the “experiments” of a crazed scientist who has developed DNX, a serum that can reanimate the dead. This leads to ninety minutes of watching our heavily armed protagonists fight walking corpses, whose female leader likes bad wigs and gratuitous nudity.
Like Tarantino, Moroga can stage a gun battle and loves comic book violence, but his make-up effects are substandard and the ‘acting’ of the supporting players, whose scenes appear to have been tacked-on to expand the running time, is mostly good for laughs. If you can put that aside, Junk is everything a gangsters-versus-zombies movie ought to be – loads of fun.