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Chopper Chicks in Zombietown

NotBlue

17:56 / 03.11.03

Is a film I have never heard of, but which sounds fantastic, and is on Channel 4 at 1:10 am this evening/tomorrow morning.

It will doubltless fail to live up to the ptomise of the title, but it's worth a crack.

rizla mission

19:52 / 03.11.03

I belive it's a Troma film, which means it'll be about one hundredth as good as it sounds.. I still hold a grudge since I stayed up till 4am to watch "Surf Nazis Must Die" and found it was utter shite.

Nevertheless though .. an all-girl biker gang movie with added zombies.. how can it possibly go wrong?

Annoyingly, due to vagaries of S4C it's showing here in Wales on Firday at the exact same time Abel Ferrara's 'The Addiction', which I reckon is pretty good, is on on the other side.

What a video dilemma.

Panic

20:29 / 03.11.03

CHOPPER CHICKS was just distributed by Troma, not an actual Lloyd Kaufman production.

It's really quite a lot of fun. In addition to the aforementioned biker chicks and zombies, there's a busload of blind, sarcastic orphans and Billy Bob Thornton in an early role. Good midnite movie fare.

DaveBCooper

09:25 / 04.11.03

Ah, saw this years ago on video (irresistible name), and was a bit disappointed apart from two bits :

1. The Mr Benn-style music that plays at one point when the zombies are marching
2. The line the orphan says bemoaning his fate (“… and now THIS”) if memory serves.

Hmm, should I put a spoiler warning here ? No, I think not. The filmmakers have given away the content of the film in the title after all.

Jack The Bodiless

10:45 / 04.11.03

The fact that it takes the zombies almost the entire film to get to the town, accompanied by marching music and "we're going to town... to have some fun..." singing in the background... priceless.

Brigade du jour

21:54 / 04.11.03

Bollocks! I failed to set my VCR properly! And I've been using the machines for about twenty years! Bollocks!

NotBlue

19:26 / 05.11.03

That "Troma" ident at the start had me rage prepared, but in all, a strangely goreless, but passable "C movie" zombie flick.

Special mention goes to the most ineffective anti-undead weapon ever taken from a hardware store full of purpose designed reaping equipment- a stapler! And the sarky orphan's were a nice black humour touch ("... well if you're going to dwell on it...")

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