10 Zombie Films You Should Die Before You See

3. Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead

By building an American Chicken Bunker on sacred Indian burial ground, big business has united displaced Native Americans and chickens sent to the €œConcentration coup€, resulting in the most lethal combination of Indians and chickens since Tandoori was introduced to the American people. Yes, it€™s the first movie where chicken zombies go on the rampage, but Poultrygeist has so much more going for it, including some surprisingly barbed satire and the kind of gore-drenched slapstick you simply don€™t see in multiplex horror movies. There€™s also musical numbers. Being a €œfowl movement€ from Troma, the studio that gave us The Toxic Avenger, means that whenever testicles aren€™t being fried and eaten and the talking Mexican sandwich (don€™t ask) is offscreen, characters are bursting into song. Typical of the numbers included is Slow Fast Food Love, a singalong anthem performed by topless women.
 
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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.'