TOXIC ZOMBIES - From the wave of rip offs that followed 'Dawn of the Dead', a relatively obscure provincial indie charting the zombie aftermath of an FBI marijuana crop spraying incident out in the sticks. I liked aspects of it, but to be honest it's a bit of a turkey. The music is dead on - classic 'video nasty' era minimal electronics - but the film itself drags, despite some nice moments. Like many of its badly shot, hurriedly assembled ilk it alternates between being boring, laughable, and satisfyingly grim. Bad / medicore film-making is one thing, and that's not my problem with 'Toxic Zombies' - it could've been a winner had it just been a bit more amped up. As it stands, it's an option for those who want a more polished early 80s zombie alternative to 'Alien Dead'.
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