FleshEater (1988)

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

As a straightforward rip-off of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, this isn't bad at all, a fast-paced, poorly-budgeted little number with plenty of outrageously good gore scenes to keep the blood flowing for horror freaks. This is both the brainchild and the ego-trip of Bill Hinzman, the familiar guy who famously played the cemetery ghoul in NIGHT (the "They're coming to get you, Barbara!" one). Hinzman directs, produces, has half his relations in the cast and stars as Flesheater, a guy who climbs outta his tomb and munches his way through an amateurish cast.Sounds boring? It isn't, because there is absolutely no exposition to get in the way; new characters are introduced throughout and die approximately two minutes later. Hinzman packs his film with many inventive gore effects that equal those in larger-scale productions; some 'highlights' include hands popping through chests, pitchfork impalings, head explosions, and all manner of sausagey, gored corpses lying around. Not content with gore alone, there's a prolonged shower scene, and somehow all the girls Hinzman attacks manage to lose their tops at some point.So, exploitation is the name of the game, and that's just about the only thing this film has going for it. Certainly the acting is mainly pathetic from an unknown cast, and Hinzman succeeds in good makeup effects alone for his part. In a nice touch, the guy who shot Ben in the original NIGHT returns for a similar action in the non-surprise ending. Elsewhere we get to see a barn burning down and a 'zombie hunt' totally copied from the original. A simplistic HALLOWEEN-style score works very well in making things tense and eerie, and a gruesome attack on a couple of kids in their home makes for very strong stuff indeed. But for the most part, this is cheesy and laughable, carried out in just the right B-movie style. Very enjoyable viewing indeed for zombie aficionados.

This one can hurt. A lot. For instance, the credit sequence gives quite a bit away. For one, count how many times that name Bill Hinzman appears. Also, notice that insistent piano score. Get used to it, because it's near enough constantly playing for ninety minutes. Also, if you've watched Night of The Living Dead, then you've already seen this film.You know that zombie in Night of the Living Dead? The one at the start? That's Bill Hinzman, and he's here making Zombie Nosh, acting, filming, producing, making soup, darning, fondling nudie actresses, saying 'yaargh', ripping off better films, editing, employing chronic thespians, wearing make-up, and staggering. He would do so again with the acute angina causing 30th Anniversary Edition of Night of the Living Dead, and Children of the Living Dead. Here, however, he manages to redeem himself (slightly) by realising that zombie films need loads of gore and violence, and thankfully Zombie Nosh manages not to be the hideous pile of goat ordure that it initially reveals itself to be.A group of 'teenagers' are on a hay ride and end up in the country. After establishing that they are all a bunch of chugnuts, and ugly too, Bill Hinzman rise up from a grave and starts killing everyone, turning them into badly acting zombies. In normal films, the 'teenagers' would be the focus of the film, but here 90% of them are wiped out and the film just moves on to the next bunch of new characters, wastes them, then moves on again, etc etc.That's about the gist of it, really. However, there's loads of gore, acting so bad it has to been seen to be believed (especially the 'aoh! moi gawd! bit), ineptitude all over the shot, plagiarism ahoy, and an ending that'll have you non-chalantly switching off the DVD player and going to bed, like most nights (?). I dunno. It's worth buying, to be honest. It's never boring.

Now this is no night of the living dead but what it is its fun great zombiploitation if you will.Starts off with some young people on a hayride going to drink beer and have some fun.This tractor riding dude unearthed zombie bill hinzman than all hell breaks loose lots of gore nudity and sleaze exploitation for sure the DVD is wonderful media blasters do a great job with their product and this is a fin example.If your a fan of zombies exploitation and cheesy 80s cinema buy this!Also its a zombie movie that happens to be set on Halloween sweet and yes the movie is somewhat of a rip off of the original night of the living dead but who cares its exploitation and its mighty entertaining.

Twenty years after he was immortalised on film as the cemetery zombie in Night of the Living Dead, actor Bill Hinzman directed and starred in Flesheater (released on DVD in the UK as Zombie Nosh!), a gory, low-budget tale of the undead that shamelessly ripped-off the plot from George Romero's 1968 horror classic.Being much better at acting dead than at making movies, Hinzman inevitably turned out a technically poor effort hampered by leaden pacing, dreadful acting and terrible dialogue. Fortunately, however, the inclusion of much cartoonish gore and female nudity prevented this mess from being completely unwatchable, and fans of z-grade trash who stumble upon the film should have a fair amount of fun as the untalented cast struggle to remember their cues, fail to convincingly deliver their god-awful lines, and try to look scared as Hinzman and his fellow flesheaters stagger clumsily towards them.The film opens as a group of college students prepare to spend Halloween in the woods, drinking Iron City beer, dancing (badly), smoking weed, and having sex. Their drunken fun is interrupted, however, when a zombie (Hinzman) is unwittingly released from its tomb by a farmer, and they are forced to flee to a nearby, ramshackle farmhouse for safety.As the number of undead outside the house gradually increases (from one to at least three or four), the students struggle to fortify the dilapidated property (they find plenty of wood and nails, sharp weapons, and a handy shotgun with ammo!), but to no avail: the zombies eventually force their way in, and carnage ensues. Only one couple escapes the onslaught, and they must struggle against the odds to survive the night...Dubious highlights include gratuitous child munching, loads of OTT gore, some very bad 80s fashion, more dodgy dancing than you can shake a bloody stump at, and lots of tits and bush (Hinzman's lead zombie gets to grapple with a couple of the nekkid girls—a perk of being in charge, I suppose); insufferable low points include the opening hayride (several protracted shots of a slow moving tractor), a laughable chase scene through the woods (why does the girl throw away her jacket?), a miserable performance from one particularly bad actress as a policewoman, all of the actors feeble attempts at looking shocked, and the entire last half hour, which follows a bunch of rednecks as they clear up the zombie problem (and yes, Hinzman does go so far as to even rip off Romero's shock ending from NOTLD!).