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6. Junk

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Japan Home Video

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 Herbert West wannabe who speaks what sounds like phonetically remembered dialogue.

Because dumb ideas appeal to movie scientists, the doc has developed DNX, a serum that duplicates the “complex combination of chemicals” that create life but has the unfortunate side effect of turning the recipient into a flesh-eating zombie.

Fortunately, the doc is hip to the slaughter and leads an attack on the base, little realizing that the zombie horde is commanded by his late fiancée, the prototype recipient of DNX, who in death has developed a taste for fright wigs, pancake make-up and parading around in her birthday suit.  

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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.'