Zombie Women Of Satan Review – Frightfest 2009
Taking place after the zombie walk and zombie olympics at Frightfest; Zombie Women of Satan is the first film from male burlesque performer/actor/director Warren Speed, along with more experienced director Steve O’Brien. ZWOS is a remarkable project if for no other reason than the people responsible for writing, acting, directing or producing the film had not met each other 6 months before it’s premiere at Frightfest ’09!
The story revolves around a circus-style stage show featuring compère Johnny Dee Hellfire (Seymour Leon Mace), Pervo the Clown (Warren Speed), midget strongman Zeus (Peter Bonner) and rocker Skye Brannigan (Victoria Hopkins) among others, who are all invited to appear on a TV show for the web. However, presenter Tycho Zander (Christian Steel) and his family have a dark secret involving cults of beautiful young women and experimentation with the undead.
Skye Brannigan discovers that this is where her lost sister is being held just as the ‘kool-aid’ is drunk and the whole cult turn into zombies as the performers have to rescue Skye’s sister, avoid the zombies and make it back out in one piece. It’s clowns, midgets and singers vs cults and zombies in a battle to the death.
ZWOS was another definitely British offering put on show by the organisers of Frightfest but suffers from being the trashiest film I’ve possibly ever seen. The tag line gives you some sort of idea what sort of misogynistic exploitation you’re in for with
It Really Was the Wrong Time of the Month!
Oh dear.
Insincere/unnecessary/just plain weird characters, ridiculous plot devices, no thought toilet humour with jokes replaced by swearing make ZWOS very hard to recommend. The whole thing is really too much. Which is a shame, as if it were slightly scaled back (don’t have the zombies bleed from nipples and vagoos and definitely no pointless zombie rape), the movie was actually quite good fun.
I appreciate not everybody is going to laugh along at the ‘lads telling gay jokes’ humour but some of the quips were good and for those that do the banter between Pervo the Clown and Johnny Dee Hellfire are at times, brilliant.
This film split a lot of the Frightfesters who were in attendance early Monday morning, but by split I mean half thought it was the worst film they’d ever seen and the other half thought it was alright. It’s certainly more of a meh/hate relationship you’ll have with this film. I was in the top end of the meh camp having not really expected much in the first place.
Overall it passed a Monday morning in the cinema but Zombie Women of Satan isn’t a film I’m going to be revisiting any time soon, that said It’s almost worth it to see @marysiak painted into those trousers again…
I’ve just watched it in Sky’s Horror channel (19th sept) and took it for what it was, a funny piss take low budget film which did make me laugh at regular intervals.
Pretty much a one~off flick to pass 90 mins away if ya wanna. Some good humor, bad gore and an amazing venture considering it was done in 6 months and nobody involved knew each prior to that. Worth a watch, not 2.