Ridiculous Gorefest Round-Up

    Everybody likes zombie movies. There is just something indescribably satisfying about watching a zombie get his comeuppance. For my money though I think the absurd zombie movies are the best way to get your zombie fix. Sure, movies like Dawn of the Dead (the original) and Night of the Living Dead (either the original or the remake) are good movies but they are intended to be taken seriously, which makes them a little lame. The same can be said for the Resident Evil movies and 28 Days/Weeks Later. They were fun to watch but nowhere as fun as Shaun of the Dead. And this leads me to my thesis, which is, light-hearted zombie movies are infinitely more fun to watch than serious ones. Do you disagree? Leave a comment!

    Expanding on my claim a bit, I've come up with a list of some of my favorite outlandishly bloody and funny death scenes from some of the craziest movies I've ever seen. Not all of which are zombie related but what they may lack in undead, they make up for in extra gore. Take the Story of Ricky for example...

Riki Oh, The Story of Ricky

    The Story of Ricky is about a Chinese guy who wants to revenge the death of his girlfriend. The only way to do this is to go to prison an basically kill everyone... I can't believe this movie was never made into a video game, I mean, it's basically just an hour and a half of one-on-one fights. Ladder format and everything. It's like in Mortal Kombat when you start the game and see the list of 10 dudes you have to fight. That's how this movie should start. Anyways, in this scene Ricky fights a dude named Wild Cat and his fat buddy Silly Lung. Ricky rips these guys a new one, literally. This scene has everything: blood, guys, even a Chinese dude's naked ass...

    Ricky goes on to fight his away up the prison ladder until finally fighting the warden. My favorite quote from the movie is during the final scene when the warden exclaims, "Of course as the warden, I am the best in Kung Fu." Makes perfect sense... if you're playing a video game.

Redneck Zombies

    Red Neck Zombies is a Troma film about, what else, zombie red necks, or more precisely, "tobacco chewing, gut chomping creatures of the night." As a Troma movie you can expect loads of fake blood and guys as the film's anti-heroes get themselves into ridiculous situations in which copious numbers of flannel clad zombies are dismembered and exploded. The best part about this movie has to be the plot intro where three rednecks are out drinking moonshine and a barrel of radioactive waste spills all into their "corn squeezins." The rest of the movie is pretty predictable Troma stuff, lots of gibs and zombies feasting on other rednecks. The trailers is embedded to the right.

Suicide Club

    This is another non-zombie movie that made it to my list because it's got plenty of ridiculous death scenes. This movie isn't slapstick like some of the other movies on this list, but it isn't so serious that you actually take it seriously... Suicide Club is a movie about Japanese teens who spontaneously decide to start killing themselves off. Think of flash mobs, but involving mass public suicide. The scene I've embedded to the right is the opening sequence of the movie where one such suicide club of high school girls shows up a subway stop. Right before the train goes through the stop all of the girls throw themselves down on the tracks and the train just keeps on going. There are plenty of crushed skulls and severed limbs. The best part is the shot of the interior of the car when the window gets sprayed with blood and the passengers freak out. As the train just keeps on rolling everyone at the subway stop gets covered in blood. There are plenty of other good scenes in the movie such as the one where a group of students jumps off of the roof of the high school and spray the cafeteria windows with blood.

Stacy

    Stacy is another movie from Japan that I had to include in this list. It's about a virus that makes teen age girls turn into zombies. So, it's a zombie movie in which all of the zombies are Japanese school girls, uniform and all. It's a little bizarre. There is plenty of bizarre shit going on in the this movie. In the clip embedded on the right you can see a government Stacy squad "re-kill" a zombie girl that is on the loose. Later on in the movie it turns out that there is an entire commercial industry around re-killing Stacys. One TV infomercial advertises the "Blues Campbell Right Hand" which is a handheld chainsaw, like Bruce Campbell's character Ash's chainsaw hand attachment from Army of Darkness.

Bad Taste

    Bad Taste was Peter Jackson's first movie in New Zealand. It's a gross out alien gorefest that was produced over several years for what amounts to about $5 USD. In the clip to the left you can see Derek, the movie's "hero" as he tries to escape from two dimwitted aliens near a cliff. The aliens in this scene are wielding sledge hammers and Derek has an uzi which he uses to sever one of the aliens' arm. Peter Jackson shows up in this clip as Robert, the alien which Derek had snared and hung off the side of the cliff. Robert escaped the snare and ambushes Derek. Derek falls to his (presumed) death on the rocks below. When he lands there is a satisfying splash of blood as the birds fly away. Later in the movie we learn that Derek is actually still alive, sort of. He's missing part of his brain however, and manages to cram some splattered gibs back into his skull before tying it off and driving off to meet up with his buddies. Bad Taste is a work of art, a masterpiece that is second only to Peter Jackson's other great splatterfest...

Dead Alive (Brain Dead)

    Dead Alive, also known as Brain Dead, is the heart warming tale of a man living with his mother in a creepy town in New Zealand. He has the hots for a girl who works at a local store, but as these movies go it doesn't really work out for them. The guy's mom gets bitten by a crazy zombie monkey at the zoo and she starts slowly turning into a zombie herself. The main character realizes she's all sorts of F'd up and tries to hid her from the public but of course other people get bit and he has to try and manage a group of four or five retarded zombies who cannibalize each other and occasionally have sex. There is even a zombie baby at one point, it's pretty crazy... But the best part of the entire movie is towards the end when the main character goes on his killing spree and literally mows down a house full of zombies with a lawnmower. Yup, he picks up a lawnmower and just starts shredding fools. It gets pretty out of hand as the floor is just coated in blood and jibs in a consistency similar to spaghetti sauce. The main character starts slipping around out of control and can barely stand. It's pretty hilarious. This entire movie is just insane, definitely one of the best zombie movies out there. I just wish Peter Jackson would go back to making comedy-horror movies like this and Bad Taste, I can only image how awesome one of his big budget zombie movies would have been.