Teenagers run-down a man in their car, a local voodoo woman turns him into a zombie, and said zombie then seeks revenge against the foolish teenagers.

Cheap, 80's style horror cheese falls flat on every level. The story is unoriginal and has no suspense, the chase sequences are laughably awful. The production values are very low-grade. Much of the movie is a show case for some occasionally decent heavy rock music. You know it's all about the music when the bands take opening credit just after the stars.

The cast, which only has Adam West for a known star, is pretty bad. The characters are generally moronic. The only interesting character is Shawn Levy as a big-haired teen thug (who throws noodles at his mom!), but he makes a rather premature exit from the movie.

A lame entry in the 80's teen horror scene, but it's still not as bad as Rick Sloan's Hobgoblins (1987)!

BOMB out of ****

A beefcake with a body that looks like it was drawn by a child withoutmuch sense of proportion gets run over by some local badboys. How bad?Well one of them throws noodles at his mother, that's pretty much thelimit if you ask me.

When Beefcake is run over his mother opts not to go for conventionalmedicine and instead entrusts her squished son to the local voodoolady. Beefhead comes back to life (with an enthusiastic and laughableroar!) and kills off the teen gang in a series of hugely dull attackswhile the police cover it up for no real reason.

This movie has Adam West in it and you can easily wring someentertainment from the film by attempting your Adam West accent whilewatching thus saving this movie from a one star rating. It's also got apoliceman who sounds like his voice is breaking, a wildly unlikelydepiction of how the police operate and another cop who seems to beeleven years old.

It doesn't really make a whole lot of sense but if you like really badmovies then it is sure to entertain you. It's worth watching just tosee the most pitiful street gang since the movie Wraith.

As a boy, Tony Washington witnesses the fatal stabbing of his fatherafter he goes to the rescue of a young black woman, Molly Mokembe, whois being sexually molested by two teenage thugs.

Cut to the present day, and Tony (now played by heavy metal singer JonMikl Thor) is a musclebound, long-haired baseball player who, like hisfather, has no time for hoodlums: when his local grocery store is heldup by armed robbers, Tony steps in and saves the day (the Italianshopkeeper is-a so-a grateful, he lets-a Tony have his-a groceriesfor-a nothing!).

Unfortunately, as Tony crosses the road with his freebies, he is rundown and killed by a gang of no-good punks, lead by psycho Jim Batten(played by Shaun Levy, now a successful Hollywood director). WhenTony's mother sees her son's lifeless body, she calls for Molly(Manuska Rigaud), who uses her voodoo powers to resurrect Tony from thedead. Armed with his trusty metal baseball bat, shuffling zombie Tonygoes looking for revenge.

As I type, Zombie Nightmare is currently sitting at #53 on IMDb'sbottom 100 movies (most likely thanks to being featured on MST3K); butwhile I cannot deny that the film is no classic of the zombie genre,and is sadly lacking in both the gore and nudity one expects from 80strash (a blonde cutie in her underwear doesn't cut it), neither is itdeserving of such contempt. I've seen hundreds of films that aretougher to endure than this one, which at least entertains with its 80scheesiness and sheer silliness.

Boasting a rocking metal soundtrack courtesy of Motorhead, Girlschool,Thor, Deathmask and Fist (no, I've never heard of the last two bandseither), an early performance from Wayne's World babe Tia Carrere(schwing!), Adam 'Batman' West as a police captain with a dark secret,hilariously bad zombie make-up, terrible acting (Manuska's Haitianvoodoo routine is a masterclass in over-acting), some really nasty 80sfashion, and a fun finale in a foggy cemetery (smoke machine onoverdrive!) that sees West dragged to hell, Zombie Nightmare isdefinitely worth a go for fans of z-grade horror.