Bombshell Bloodbath (2014) User Reviews

UNLOCK THAT CAGE!

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 1 November 2018]

This is a hillbilly zombie film that takes place in the 1970's (?) or so. The deranged Dr. Carter (Rob Springer) experiments with stem cells in an attempt to re-animate his wife, but creating zombies instead. Most of the film was boring. The rednecks killing zombie scenes provided some brief entertainment, they should have started there.

As far as the nuts and bolts of the film, i.e. soundtrack, low budget effects, etc. it was superior to most low budgets. No hand held jerking and choppy sound. The plot stagnated and the actors couldn't make the dialogue exciting.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex. Nudity (Savannah Mae- first film credit ) Kudos Joh Harp, Umberto

A silly fun tribute to 70's Zombies.

[Jester222 · 3/10 · 25 August 2019]

Don't expect Romero quality and you may enjoy the ride. (With a title like Bombshell Bloodbath you obviously weren't expecting high quality anyway)

Yes tha acting is bad and the story derivative the effects cheap. But you can feel the love that's gone into making this. A ultra low budget film with some fun gore scenes. The emphasis is on fun even though played seriously it's impossible to take it as so. It's camp and silly. The story tries to be clever and fails. Just enjoy it for what it is. A group of friend who love horror having the time of their life's getting covered in fake blood and playing zombies. Some of the dialogue scenes went on too long and found myself fast forwarding to the neck kill. Not bad effects for the budget and actually a few are better imagined and attempted than a lot of higher budget films I've seen. If they had bigger FX budget I reckon it could have been a little cult classic.

Well done for trying. Bet all involved are really proud. Keep on making films and having fun.

A love letter to VHS horrors

[amesmonde · 26 February 2015]

After a zombie virus takes hold a group of people try to find a cure and stay alive.

Bombshell Bloodbath is the perfect quintessential homage to the late 70s and early 80s countless churned out VHS horrors and banned video nasties. Brett Mullen and writer Sky Tilley cleverly offer a mash-up of horror ideas borrowing from the best of the worst and best of the best including Dawn of the Dead, The Beyond, The Evil Dead to name a few.

Bombshell Bloodbath is purposely all over the place with its tone harking back to the good old days of horror and grind house cinema. Moody voice overs, dramatic mad scientist, experiments with rats, tape recordings, seedy strip clubs, cabins in the wood and zombies tearing flesh and more.

The flesh eaters mostly bookend the film with the actors emulating the days of Neon Maniacs, Nightmare City and the countless horror performances alike. Samantha Mills it great as the mysterious blonde bombshell, Cara is wonderfully played by Alex Elliott in amongst the great practical effects and archetype camera angles of Italian exploitation films, like the Barbarians, Rats and Hell of the Living Dead. The music is the icing on the cake for nostalgia hounds and new fans of the old sub-genre horror with composer Matt Hill channelling the likes of Fabio Frizzi and Goblin.

Bombshell Bloodbath does what House of the Devil recreated for old school horrors, this revisits the atmosphere and execution of horror exploitation films.

If there ever was an indie love letter written to Fulci, Romero, Argento and Lenzi, it would look something like this.

Rubbish

[annathapen · 1/10 · 27 November 2015]

Why I wasted my time on this I do not know!

The script was so weak, the acting was terrible, you can spot so many mistakes that were probably not meant to be there.

The filming was awful. The makeup and effects were beyond terrible.

This is just a low budget crappy zombie movie wannabe.

I get that they tried to make it look like an old school z movie but it just did not work at all! This is just a low budget crappy zombie movie wannabe.

Don't waste your time on this film it's pointless and pathetic. If IMDb would let us I wouldn't even rate this film even 1 star!

Craptastic.

[mhorg2018 · 1/10 · 27 August 2018]

This movie is one of the reasons that many horror fans hate zombie movies. Bad acting, bad ideas, bad story, bad everything. The other reviews have to be by people paid, or too stoned to actually know what they're watching. Taking ideas from many better movies (including a death by shovel scene from Day of the Dead), this story of a scientist (who gets half his face chewed off but doesn't get infected) trying to bring back the dead is beyond a waste of time. Just garbage all around.

A superb horror film

[epiceffectss · 9/10 · 5 March 2015]

So finally someone has done a "throwback" horror well. Finally.... After all these efforts to try and reminisce the 80s horror genre , someone has done a killer job. Drive did a fantastic job bringing an 80s spin on the action film. This film has done the same class job only this time to the horror genre. I must say this reminded me of reanimator ! It has a massive carpenter overtone also. This soundtrack was very well done , class. I hope any of you horror fans out there get this and watch it and its absolutely fantastic , a dream for any horror fan, a real modern classic which I imagine people will be still watching in ten years time. ( and just to add ... I'm real , check all my horror reviews that I do! ) I absolutely loved this film , not going to add spoilers as you just have to watch this .

An enjoyable homage to the zombie movie

[Stevieboy666 · 6/10 · 1 May 2019]

A mad scientist conducts experiments with the help of his daughters in raising the dead, so that he can bring his beloved late wife back to life - but it all goes terribly wrong! This is movie starts out as a mad scientist movie, before turning into a zombie apocalypse one. The latter have been done to death over the last decade or so, with weak plots and poor CGI effects. I felt that BB was a breath of fresh air. It has an interesting story line, it favours practical effects over computerised ones and is obviously made by people who love horror movies. Very reminiscent of the zombie movies made back in the late 1970's to the mid 1980's, in particular those from Italy. Gore fans will not be disappointed. The low budget does show and some of the acting is wooden, but if anything it adds to its charm, plus there is a fair bit of humour but not too much. Although nowhere near as good as the movies that it pays tribute to I really did enjoy this and look forward to checking out director Brett Mullen's other works. AKA Dead Inferno