FLESH FREAKS

“An impressive little film that defies its miniscule budget”

- Rue Morgue Magazine

 
This is a movie I made back in high school, but it's got enough good press and has been popular enough on DVD that I thought I'd put it up here anyway.  Enjoy!

“A rock ‘em sock ‘em no-budget zombie epic that piles on lotsa laughs and gallons of grue . . . A wildly inventive slice of darkly comic splatter"
- Sleazegrinder.com

"A DV feature movie to definitely get your hands on … Nice and nasty with plenty of the red!”
- Thrae.com

“An engaging ooze-fest of a zombie movie"
- B-Independent.com

“Refreshing, old-school schlock!"
- MicroFilm Magazine

"An entertaining exercise in well-executed splatter!"
- Is it ... Uncut? Magazine

Story
Worm-like parasites infest the dead, returning them to gruesome half-life as rotting, bloodthirsty zombies in this gruesome freak-fest made back in 2000, before bloodthirsty zombies became so blandly mainstream (how did that happen anyway?).  Freed from their jungle hell by a secret research expedition, the creatures soon find their way to modern civilization where they begin their deadly mission to transform the human race into an unstoppable army of the undead. Will they succeed in their gory quest? Will the entire human race be wiped out? Can anyone stop the blood-soaked onslaught of the FLESH FREAKS?

Cast
Eshe Mercer-James, Etan Muskat, Dan Zabbal, Erica Goldblatt, Clayton Hayes, Richard Archer

People who did Other Things
 Script/Direction/Editing/Effects: Conall Pendergast; Additional effects by Alex Perkins; Additional photography by Dan Zabbal; Music by Steven Kado

Screenings
 2000 American B-Movie Film Festival: Winner of a Merit Award; nominated for Best Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Foreign Film (Canada).
 

 
This actually is the Japanese poster for Flesh Freaks -- despite the new title and an image that makes it look like it has about a million times more production value that it actually does.  I hope Japanese exploding car movie fans won't be disappointed when they give this one a rent and find it sorely lacking in the automotive combustibility department.  And what city is this?  Why are those birds in there?    Who's the big guy in the hoodie?  And who are those other people?  It looks like they spent more money on this than I spent on the entire movie.  Which to be honest isn't all that much, but still.
 
Here's the more accurate and therefore less impressive North American DVD cover put together by the friendly folks at Sub Rosa Studios.  It features one of the many mealy-headed ghouls who populate the underground corridors in Flesh Freaks but ... they buried him in that? Either he died in the early eighties when his family was running low on suits or he corked it back in the disco era and went to a very stylish funeral home.

Snag your very own copy of  Flesh Freaks from at Amazon.com! DVD includes trailers, commentary, and two short films - Flicker and Satan's Psycho-Ghoul!