Zombie Nosh (a.k.a. 'FleshEater') - So bad it's (nearly) good

Sometimes just because you ENJOY a film, doesn't mean that it's necessary a GOOD film.  I can take enjoyment in 'Zombie Nosh,' while at the same time being able to admit that it's probably one of the worst movies ever made.  Where do I begin?

It's a horror/zombie film where there isn't a single shred of originality contained within.  If you've seen a horror film with a massive genre-cliche, then it's probably also on display here.  A group of - not particularly good-looking - teenagers (by today's standards, anyway) have a party on Halloween while an undead outbreak takes place. 

Now, these teens aren't just not that attractive, they also can't act.  And if you think that the average horror movie teen can't act... well, you haven't seen this lot try.  It looks totally cheap as if it's a Media Studies student's labour-of-love film project and the dialogue could probably have been written by your average ten-year-old (assuming he was into writing scripts regarding pulling people's organs out and devouring them).

And yet, for all its numerous faults, I still own it in my DVD collection and watch it occasionally.  If you're looking for a great/scary horror/zombie film then you won't find it here and I promise you'll hate every minute of it.  However, if you appreciate what can be made on such a low budget before zombie films were afforded the kind of budgets Hollywood has been lavishing on them (roughly since the 'Resident Evil' craze) and are in a forgiving mood, then you'll at least see what the film-makers were trying for.

You may ever be able to see that, despite everything looking cheaper than a postage stamp, the gore is actually quite good and the story doesn't pull any punches in terms of who dies (I was particularly surprised at one death, but no spoilers here).  I suppose the film's main 'selling point' is that it features what could be considered as the 'original zombie' from George A Romero's classic 'Night of the Living Dead' movie.  And yet I doubt the name S. William Hinzman will really fill that many more seats in terms of ticket sales.

Apart from if you're REALLY into your zombie films, the only real reason someone would actually sit down to watch this was if you were inviting a bunch of friends over and you were very intoxicated and wanted to watch a film that was so bad that you could all just laugh at it and play some sort of drinking game.

It really is a bad movie.  But I like it anyway.  Anyone else... you have been warned.

5/10 a hard trek, a bit like unicycling to Mordor and back