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A synopsis is fairly pointless - suffice it to say that if you have clocked the title, you should have a reasonable idea of what this (very) low budget British horror film is going to offer you.

I suggest you don't take the offer. I did, and I regret it. The plot is perfunctory. The acting seems to consist of shouting. Most of the characters are badly conceived and executed even worse. The nudity is very unappealing. The sex is even worse. The humour which is intended to be present isn't. The special effects are non-existent. The gore is liberal and, if that - and that alone - is your thing, the film may have something to offer you.

The script is peppered with the F word. Yes I know it is an 18 certificate, and I have no objection to the word itself, but I once more make a point I have made numerous times before - make the language in a script/book/whatever serve you. Making every other word an obscenity, for no purpose, makes your script worse, not better.

This is a cheap, bad film. Not the first, not the last. But it is one of the sad ones because, every now and then, you get the whiff of the shadow of the ghost of the rather better film this might have been.

Not to the extent that I recommend seeing it, though.

This movie has very little to praise. The idea that its funny is nonsense...there are no good lines, nothing funny happens.It's like a lot of so-called comedy..stupid, tasteless and painfully unfunny.

Acting is hideous ( many of the cast have a history of low budget, badly acted crap) with a misogynistic theme and the "babes" are not the most attractive bunch of women ever assembled on film.

It's not scary or horrific either and the gore and fx are unconvincing.

Zombie Women of Satan never rises above its obviously tiny budget in production values. However a cheap film can distinguish itself with good ideas or a good script. ZWOS makes no effort to do either.

This comedy failed to amuse me in the slightest.

The funniest thing about it is the character name Pervo the Clown- which for some reason brought a wry grin to my face. Nothing else about it is funny.

Its also just bizarre and tasteless for the sake of it- there are things here that are weird or unpleasant but never interesting, dramatic, scary or funny.

Its ineptly made, cheap and has no plot. I keep reading reviews that mention all the glamorous females- there were none in the version I saw.

The zombie women are deeply unattractive, as are the rest of the actresses.

I use the word actresses loosely because there is no-one with any talent on screen here with the possible exception of Victoria Hopkins. She gives a one-note performance and her character is unlikable but at least she brings some energy and emotion to her part, which is more than anyone else can manage.

To give an example of how bad the acting is: Is Marysia Kay's character supposed to be retarded? It's impossible to tell because her portrayal in this is exactly the same as it is in other things I've seen her in: wooden. Marysia is unlikely ever to be mistaken for an actress.

Another example: (spoiler) Red's kidnapped sister- the one all the fuss is about- spends most of the movie hypnotized, lobotomized or drugged or something. Yet at the end when she is finally rescued and unbrainwashed her performance is exactly the same!!.

NOT RECOMMENDED

In case you're thinking that perhaps it's "so bad it's good", don't, it's not one of those. By the time you're old enough to legally watch this movie, you're probably too old to appreciate much of the humor.

Unfortunately there could have been some interesting ways the film could have developed in terms of humor, character and themes, but it never does. In the end, and similarly to what happens at one point in the film, you'll find all that's left behind, is an unfeasibly large pile of crap.

Although the movie is about zombie women, who of course have to be "dealt with" during the course of the story, and although there is a strong female character, there seems to be a misogynistic feel to a lot of the humor and violent scenes which may not sit well with some. There is a pity about this as the toilet and sex humor the film attempts could have worked if there was a less aggressive and immature (practically "schoolboy") approach.

Other problems include the video look, and sound quality, which cheapen the the experience further.

This is an attempt to make Viz style humour..outrageous, dealing with taboo subjects, pushing the boundaries of good taste, overdosing on profanity. While it does all those things, it fails to remember to be funny, scary or interesting. There are no jokes to speak of and no plot. These things wouldn't matter if it had decent actors but it doesn't. No-one involved in this has ever done anything mainstream and probably never will. Even at the most base level of possible appeal ie as an attempt to titillate it fails because while there is a good deal of nudity it is all of unattractive people. Avoid this as if your life depends on it.

Zombie Women of Satan is set in England where the members of an extreme stage act are about to be interviewed by Tycho Zander (Christian Steel) on his internet channel, arriving at his large farm estate studio the interview starts. Meanwhile in another building on the estate Tycho's mad scientist father Henry (Bill Fellows) has been conducting bizarre experiments with various young girls & turning them into flesh eating zombies, after a bowl of punch is contaminated with infected blood all the remaining girls turn into zombies free to roam the estate looking for food. Lead singer Skye Brannigan (Victoria Hopkins) sees her long lost sister Rachel (Victoria Broom) & decides to rescue her, the rest of the raunchy act tag along & help her. With zombies mad scientists wanting to keep a lid on things everyone is out to kill our heroes but unfazed they carry on...

This English production was written, produced & directed by Steve O'Brien & Warren Speed who also stars in it as Pervo the Clown & to be fair to it I thought it was alright for what it was, certainly no masterpiece as cheap exploitative fun Zombie Women of Satan isn't half bad. OK so from a script point of view the film makes no real sense, nothing is explained or comes together particularly well & while not all the jokes & one-liners are funny there's enough enthusiasm here in the writing & delivery to raise the odd smile. A lot of the humour is very lowbrow, a scene of Zeus the dwarf taking a dump complete with fart sounds & funny face pulling may not sound that funny but if you lower your expectations & go with the raunchy & juvenile playground humour then you may like this. There's loads of swearing, sometimes too much but it's the banter & one-liners between the main character's that really shines here with plenty of verbal sparring, insults & amusing quick fire responses. At just over 80 minutes long at least it's short, it moves along at a decent pace & there's a fair amount of blood & nudity too, I guess Zombie Women of Satan is never going to win any awards or be at the top of anyone's best films list it does deliver what it promises & it's surprisingly amusing with it, certainly not the greatest film ever made but an entertaining one if you set your expectations low enough & are in the right sort of mood for some trashy exploitation. It turned out to be much, much better & much, much more likable than I had thought it would be.

Obviously shot on a low budget you can tell a lot of effort & enthusiasm went into this, from the visual style of the individual character's to the reasonable gore effects which aren't that bad. A head is cut in half with a chainsaw, a head is cut off with said chainsaw, a face is bashed in, there's some bullet wounds, some flesh biting, naked blood covered zombie women & more. Each of the character's are quite likable with distinct personalities & strange outfits from Pervo the Clown in clown make-up to country music reject Johnny Dee Hellfire.

The IMDb says Zombie Women of Satan had a budget of about £40,000 which really is next to nothing, filmed in the North of England this is quite well made considering & looks quite good. The acting is pretty good & it's the fun performances & delivery that make Zombie Women of Satan as much fun as it is, the only weak link is probably Victoria Hopkins as Skye who is strangely much more restrained than everyone else.

Zombie Women of Satan isn't a great film, despite it's lurid title this is a fairly amusing horror comedy exploitation flick that is probably much better than it has any right to be. I was amused & entertained while watching it so I guess it must have done something right, right?