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Basically this whole movie can be summarized in ONE sentence: "Okay, better get going now...why aren't you leaving???????" I see others had the same "WTF's" has I had, so I don't feel so bad about this review: 1.) The whole beginning sequence was laughable, it reminded me of that Simpson's commercial "Canyonero" for their SUV.

2.)I just laughed when they had the music playing over the cop's radio talking.

3.) What is this supposed to be a very sad commentary on our State Troopers? That first of all, she wouldn't get him to get OUT of his car before showing her badge? And that one on one with absolutely nothing else around you could STILL lose your suspect.

4.) They just got Civil War re-enactors to be the extras, right? 5.) Its 28 Days Later in the Old West.

6.) The credits went for around an hour, I think. House of 1000 corpses fan much? 7.) If this IS an attempt to comment about slavery and race relations, why did they make the one "carjacker" in the entire desert a coked-up black guy with a gun? 8.) His gun changed a few times, semi, handgun, revolver...

9.) Some of the slow motion action scenes were tailor made for Conan's Walker Lever.

10.) The people turning into zombies was very reminiscent of the Return of the Living Dead movies, but without the campiness or originality.

11.) Ah yes, our new sort of hero: Coked Up Guy!!! 12.) I agree- I think Bloody Bill DOEs look like Mad Dog Tannen (Back to the Future 3), the McDonald's moon-man and William Sadler as the Grim Reaper (Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey).

13.) When "Eric" set off the grenade, why did smoke come out of only the top floor window, when it was blown off ground level? 14.) Bloody Bill apparently didn't have to do that much. He spent 95% of his time simply standing there.

15.) Gwen sensed something was wrong with the "Eric" in cowboy attire coming towards them, yet she continued to simply stand there, why? 16.) Bloody Bill can tele-transport from place to place- so why didn't he locate himself into the little tiny room they were hold up in? 17.) The end was a total ripoff of the Friday the 13th's, when someone pretended to be Mrs. Voorhees at the end to track the bad guy.

Basically I found myself asking everybody Didn't JUST LEAVE!!!

OK....so we got a ghost-town (literally) with a conferate soldier and a gaggle of zombies guarding the corpse of his sister. Do I even need to tell you the rest? I will say its an original way to promote zombies to have them fully aware of their surroundings as upposed to mindless oafs staggering around, but that's as good as it got. The whole plot was awful and what kind of ending was THAT?? The highlight of the movie was when Earl runs into the room and sees N*GGER written on skulls and says in a high pitched voice "OOH Sh*t, that ain't right!" Speaking of which, it was in the legend that Bloody Bill hated blacks yet he didn't kill the black characters any differently from the whites, so they blew that plot twist completely.

The rest of the movie was awful, don't even bother, no redemption value at all.

2 out of 10 (only because of the opening chase scene prevented it being a 1)

That is some damn terrible writing and dialogue. Don't get me wrong, the film looked great and I could even tolerate the mediocre acting. Hell, they even had a bit of fun following some of the Zombie Rules with a couple of the character's story arcs...BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE...take your time and write a decent story and believable dialogue. How plausible is it that one of the male characters would have extensive knowledge of the title character's history and that he would then, conveniently, release this information as needed? And why would one female character ask (FOURTEEN TIMES), "Why won't you tell me what's wrong with you?" to this same over informed male character after he has been bitten by a zombie, meanwhile, he is screaming in pain!!

And STOPPING MAKING BOSS ZOMBIES...I blame video games.

Bloody Bill (pardon me if I drop the rest of the ludicrously long title) is pretty good fun. The cast are enjoyably OTT, the premise is utterly ridiculous and there's zombies present in vast numbers. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and some effort has obviously been made to give it some original touches, whether cosmetic or within the storyline. In its field, it's pretty impressive.

That said, it's field is straight-to-video horror, where the field varies from the 'really should have been in the theatre but wasn't' titles like Madhouse and Ginger Snaps right down to the 'if I'd paid more than rental for that I would have gone Mr T on somebody' output like Death Tunnel and Killjoy. Rest assured, Bloody Bill is thankfully in the top quarter of that spectrum, largely thanks to a dose of warped humour and the sheer volume of zombies it spits out, but it has some holes in it's jacket.

Firstly, the storyline is borderline stupidity. A college debate team (yes, I said DEBATE TEAM) are carjacked by a young black guy (*cough* cliché *cough*) who drives them out to where he was meant to pick up his partner, who it turns out has been assimilated somehow into the zombie army of Bloody Bill, an undead confederate raider who's sworn vengeance on humanity. I'll give you a second while you regain your composure after the inevitable laughing fit. You will need your best suspension of disbelief hat on for this one, and possibly the matching underwear to go with it.

Ignoring the stupidity of the plot (which actually it has to be said, is so stupid, it's amazing) the acting is not awful but not great either. The main characters, aforementioned young black guy aside (who steals the show with his catchphrase 'man, that ain't right!' and other scenes of daring-do) are either so annoying or so ineffectual that within split seconds of their mouth opening you're praying for a zombie attack to start up so you don't have to listen to them. The lead in particular is nails-down-chalkboard annoying, refusing to believe anything bad is happening seemingly until 50 minutes in, obviously going for the Scully dollar, even saying 'there has to be a rational explanation for this' several times throughout.

Still, where it counts, on the zombie front, Bloody Bill delivers in spades, with an impressive 20-30 zombies on screen at once, charging about and causing lots of mayhem. Bloody Bill himself is cool, a little like John Carl Buechler's Forty-Niner but more decomposed and not quite such a bad-ass. Also, the movie is spiced up with some great moments of bad-taste humour and some pretty sick gore effects.

As horror goes, Bloody Bill is a solid success, not exactly a film that'll blow you away, but unpretentious fun all the same, and worth a rent or a cheap buy if you see it somewhere.

This is the most idiotic horror i've seen lately. Actors are absolute talentless teens and the big drug dealer seems to be at his very first movie, without any reversals. Please, movie makers, spare us these embarrassing productions. I do not recommend this, except to psychopathic little children =)). Extremely low budget, almost no plot (the entrance of Darrel is forced somehow, ... he was hitch hiking and suddenly he is in the middle of the action...). Well, the music was the only good thing about it. Oh, and what's with the "renoir" golden light on everything. To me - at least - golden doesn't inspire terror, but a heavenly atmosphere ... what were they thinking ? Seen session 9 ? GREEN IS THE COLOUR PPL !

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*

A bunch of teens...that's the way these movies always start, teens in bunches. Anyway, a bunch of teens get sidetracked on their way to a debate. They end up in a ghost town filled with zombies. Or maybe it's a zombie town. Bloody Bill is the king zombie. He wants revenge for something that happened during the civil war. So the teens will pay for being teens in Bill town. Bloody bill will bang his zombie head to harsh metal while dealing out death. Kill Bill Kill.

This was a decent straight to video zombie flick. There was enough gore here to let me overlook any other B-movie deficiencies. Somehow zombies are becoming associated with metal music. After "Dawn of the Dead" blasting eardrums with "Down with the Sickness", "Bloody Bill" continues the zombie/metal love affair. Every time Bill and friends were chasing teens, it was metal time. From beyond the grave, Bill rocks on.

Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill starts as five college kids, Gwen (Chelsea Jean), Mandy (Denise Boutte), Sondra (Kandis Erickson), Jerry (Matt Marraccini) & Buck (Steve Glinn) plus they're teacher Avery (Scott Carson) set off across country to Phoenix. En-route they are taken hostage by a drug dealer named Earl (Gregory Bastien) who is looking for his fellow drug dealer Darrel (Dean N. Arevalo) whom he thinks has ripped him off. They find Darrel's car & follow the road to a old town called Sunset Valley where they find Darrel injured & covered in blood, he warns them to leave but before they can they are all attacked by a horde of flesh eating zombies lead by evil Confederate soldier William Anderson AKA Bloody Bill (Jeremy Bouvet) who has placed a curse on the town & it's residents for his & his sister's executions centuries ago. It's either the flesh eating zombies or the kids & it's a fight to the death...

Photographed & directed by Byron Werner I thought Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill was an OK low budget zombie film. The script moves along at a fair pace & entertains on a basic level. It isn't anywhere near the likes of Night of the Living dead (1968) or Dawn of the Dead (1978) in terms of quality but it does it's best. The character's are the typical bunch of stranded would-be victims as they eventually start to argue & bicker at each other as the situation becomes ever worse & their number begins to dwindle. Of course you don't really go into a film such as this expecting high art or a meaningful story which is just as well because this definitely isn't high art & certainly doesn't have a meaningful story. Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill is one of those films that if you turn your brain off, can ignore a few rough edges & don't set your expectations too high can be enjoyed in a dumb mindless sort of way. It ain't exactly brilliant but it ain't too bad either.

Director Werner tries all the flashy & somewhat annoying editing tricks there is, bleached colours, slow-mo, fast-mo, frame skipping & quick cuts. The special effects aren't that great but I've seen worse, there's no real scares, tension or atmosphere probably because it's set entirely during the day which doesn't help the ambiance, does it? One aspect of Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill that I hated was the music, it was absolutely awful & there were times that I pressed mute on my TV remote control because it was giving me a headache. There is also a stupid bit with a grenade, I mean that grenade would have done more damage than cause a bit of smoke, I mean it was a wooden house it would have set in on fire at least, wouldn't it? The gore is tame & lacking, there's a couple of flesh eating scenes, there's a decapitated zombie head & a few gun shot wounds, I was pretty disappointed with the gore levels here to be honest.

Technically Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill is OK, it's nothing special but considering the low budget it could have been worse. It looks like it was shot on a digital camcorder like a lot of low budget horror films are these days, personally I really don't like how these digitally shot films look & I much prefer proper good old fashioned film. The acting sucked, but then what did you expect?

Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill is an average low budget horror film that isn't exactly spectacular but it's sort of watchable in it's own crap way, I doubt I'll ever want to see it again though. Worth a watch if your bored & have lots (& I mean lots) of love for the horror genre.