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Joliet Jake Blues
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
Australia
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 Posted - 03/21/2006 : 11:12:41 PM
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http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/movies/22shad.html
Derek Wan's 'Shadow: Dead Riot' Puts Zombies in Women's Prison
By NATHAN LEE
Published: March 22, 2006
A cult classic is born in "Shadow: Dead Riot," and so is a rampaging corpse baby. Written by Michael Gingold and directed by Derek Wan, this berserk little B-movie is obviously the greatest zombie flick ever set in an experimental women's prison, easily the underground treat of the season, and totally off its rocker.
All hail the silliest cast of the year! Tony Todd stars as Shadow, a resurrected serial killer with a half-baked back-story, a posse full of zombies and a neat metal spigot he uses to drink people like juice boxes. Carla Greene plays Solitaire, a taciturn soul sister with hidden reserves of superhuman skill beneath her form-fitting pastel tracksuit. Co-starring (and relentlessly scene-stealing) as the alpha inmate Mondo, Tatianna Butler is all bleached-blond sass and bodacious bodybuilding — a cross between Lil' Kim and the rocky orange Thing.
And the plot? Women. Prison. Zombies. The end.
"Shadow" comes on like the low-budget love child of "Evil Dead" and "Reform School Girls," a crazy camp blitzkrieg of lockdown melodrama, kung fu catfights, black-magic corniness, exploding torsos, perverted doctors, impromptu zombie childbirth and bountiful lesbian shower scenes. It's a (cell) block party as funky as Dave Chappelle's, and the best reason you'll ever have to visit the ImaginAsian, the specialty cinema at 239 East 59th Street, where the movie lurches, splats and jiggles to life today.
"Shadow: Dead Riot" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It includes gleefully gratuitous nudity and very silly gore.
Shadow: Dead Riot
How can you not love that headline? If only it was the title of the movie - "Zombies in a Women's Prison" - it almost puts "Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory" to shame!
"Age and guile beat youth, innocence and a bad haircut" - P.J. O'Rourke |
Edited by - Joliet Jake Blues on 03/22/2006 12:57:26 AM
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/21/2006 : 11:20:17 PM
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| Another Rami/Jackson/Romero is born?? We shall see! I'm tempted to go on about what genius combining the WIP and zombie genres is and how it could be that no one has yet thought of it, but I'm pretty sure someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of Hong Kong/Japanese cinema will pop up and point out that it's been done- they've thought of everything. (Did Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion have any zombies??) |
Edited by - Sardu on 03/21/2006 11:25:38 PM |
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