10 Worst Zombie Films Of All Time

4. Zombie Flesh Eaters 3 (1988)

Claudio Fragasso strikes again with this second cash-in, which also marks the casting of Jeff Stryker, John Waters€™ favourite gay porn star, in his first €˜mainstream€™movie. Jeff€™s on a deserted island with two other backpackers who, upon discovering a volume entitled The Book of Death, apparently mistake it for a nursery rhyme (€œIf you want to open the door to Hell today, these four words you must say€) and begin reading aloud, only for the dead to rise and curtail their future as children€™s entertainers. The rest of the film displays the same contempt for logic as the deadheads change from shufflers to machine gun-wielding crack commandos and back again, but if nothing else the proceedings allow Fragasso to repeat his favoured technique of moving the camera toward a screaming victim. That camera wobbles as often as the sets, the hastily applied make-up is unconvincing at best, music and footage are recycled from other movies and the acting, staging and dubbing are all terrible. Watch it on a double-bill with Troll 2.
 
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'