FleshEater 4K 1988

'Flesh Eater. Revenge of the Living Dead" is a zombie movie, but no longer directed by the king of horrors, George Romero, but by the world's first zombie, Scott William Hinzman, or simply Bill Honzman. The movie, shot in a few days and on a small budget, is pretty good. Sure, the actors here are cheesy, but Bill Hinzman and the creepy atmosphere that permeates the entire film make it a masterpiece. Almost as good as Romero's films. But almost, as we know, doesn't count.

A group of students go out of town for a vacation. Not far from where they are staying, a man was getting rid of stumps. Under one of them he noticed a concrete slab, on which was stamped a warning. Spitting it all out, the man pulled the slab away. Beneath it was a coffin in which lay a pale man. At the same second he opened his eyes and clutched at the man's throat.

Gray-haired, pale-faced, wearing his old black suit, the one he used to terrorize Judith O'Dea in when she played Barbara in Romero's first film, Bill looks pretty frightening. Sure, the fact that he rips up human flesh with his hands, pierces people with pitchforks and chops them with axes looks pretty funny. But these little flaws are more than compensated for by Hinzman's pale face, the atmosphere and the plot.