Edinburgh Zombie Club

Our friends in trash, the Edinburgh B-Team, have an exciting upcoming event!

Jekyll & Hyde and Cult Fiction Movies would like to invite you all to an evening in the company of Mr David Hess. Star of the infamous video nasty ‘Last House on the Left’. Also in attendance will be Giovanni Lombardo Radice star of ‘Cannibal Ferox’, ‘House on the edge of the park’ (Alongside David), ‘City of the Living Dead’ and many more. The Jekyll will be closed to the non ticket holding public specifically for this icon of the horror genre on March 14th 2010 in an evening packed with everything a budding movie goer could hope for in this fine old gothic venue. There will be movie showings in the crypt bar all evening with intros from David himself, who will be partaking in a Q&A session on the balcony section of the pub along with an opportunity to get your favourite movies signed. The event will be brought to a close with David playing a live set featuring songs from the soundtrack of ‘Last House’ originally composed by himself .

Tickets will be priced at £6/£5 concessions (with an additional small autograph charge). The concessionary price is offered to students, members of the Edinburgh B-Team and The Edinburgh Zombie Club. Tickets are available from the following outlets.

The Jekyll & Hyde, Cult Fiction Movies and Ticket Scotland

We’ll be there, and you should too!

Zombie Creeping Flesh (1981) aka. Night of the Zombies, Virus, Cannibal Virus, Zombie Inferno, Zombies of the Savannah and Hell of the Living Dead, etc! – Directed by Bruno Mattei

It’s been a little while since we’ve had a proper ZOMBIE night so kicking off will be the shlocker-cum-Romero rip-off of Zombie Creeping Flesh, to use one out of the dozens of alternative title’s its had over the years. It’s truly an enjoyable stinker; you’ll see blatant plagiarisms from Dawn of The Dead and Zombi 2, to Cannibal Holocaust/Ferox and the Mondo Cane films, even to the extent of using stock footage and stealing some of Goblin’s soundtrack. The army is sent out to a remote part of Papa New Guinea to investigate a chemical accident, before stumbling upon a film crew in the jungle who have discovered a sinister plot which has turned the natives into hungry flesh rippers – you can see where this is going. Despite lacking in originality, it has enough going for it to tick the usual EZC boxes with loads of entertaining deaths, unintelligible dialogue and some decent enough set pieces.

Followed by…

Hard Rock Zombies (1985) – Directed by Krishna Shah

Here’s some real B-movie stupidity which just oozes of the mid-1980’s. Imagine if the mulleted metal kids of “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” were employed to star in a nonsensical romp regarding a hair metal band with a penchant for incredibly young looking girls, who have to battle the walking corpses of dead rockers, a Zombie version of Hitler and his werewolf madame, Eva Braun. Throw in some horrendous musical and dance montages, midgets, statutory rape, skateboards, plenty of nudity and inept special effects – and you’ve got Hard Rock Zombies. The over-used expression of “they don’t make em like they used to” can honestly be applied here, it’s totally moronic and utterly entertaining. This might outdo “Hausu” on the WTF-o-meter, a dubious VHS classic.

Wednesday 27th January from 7pm onwards. Upstairs in the top floor studio of the GRV, Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. Just head straight up the staircase on your left hand side after entering the front door. Free entry!

We’ve been at it again; getting in a room together, opening a few beers, pressing record and talking trash cinema. This time around we’re joined by a couple of new voices so expect more trips down memory lane, tales of lost video shops and inappropriate viewing.

As well as that, we turn our hand to the Christmas viewing and have a brief look forward to this month.

Any and all feedback is very much appreciated so leave a comment or e-mail us.

 

 A (late) Zombie Club Christmas [60:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

As rambling and shambolic as the living dead we love so much, it’s the Edinburgh Zombie Club podcast!

For the first episode we chat about how we got into watching horror cinema and what it is that keeps us coming back for more. There’s also some discussion of the Ozsploitation cinema that we watched back in November.

Comments are very much welcome. Tell us what you liked, what you didn’t, and just about anything else that springs to mind.

 

 Ozsploitation [60:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download