Night of a Thousand Screams

Flicks about zombies are my favorites in the horror genre, so naturally I had been looking for this hard to find gem,I was really excited to find it last week on DVD at a Planet Video. The first 20 minutes or so are for character development as we meet 4 teenagers and a couple who stop at a creepy looking house, there we are introduced to a nice lady, who by the end of the night turns out to be a nasty bitch who kills one of the men, after that all hell breaks loose as the dead rise from their graves. Reportedly shot for only 175,000, it is pretty darn good, the fighting scenes are well coordinated, the cast is good, when someone dies there's plenty of gore, and although there's no actual nudity, plenty of things are half exposed as the younger cast does half the movie in practically no clothing, most of the scenes in the woods are filled with suspense (especially because everything's so quiet, you know something can jump out of nowhere at any moment). The end is especially good as the ones left alive fight to death against the evil bitch. The DVD also has about 10 minutes of bloopers and an interview with the director discussing all the things she did in order to have the movie done. Over all, I give this flick *** out of ****