"FleshEater" (aka. "The Zombie Nosh") of 1988 is a hilariously clumsy Zombie flick in which none other than Bill Hinzman served as writer, director and star. The name Bill Hinzman will not necessarily ring a bell, but his face should be known to every Horror fan, since the man is known for his small, but highly memorable role in George A. Romero's 1968 milestone "Night Of The Living Dead". "FleshEater" is an absolutely inept mess, but nonetheless (or, more precisely, therefore) partly very amusing. While the film ranks among the dumbest Zombie flicks of the 80s (and that's quite something with all these clumsy Romero/Fulci ripoffs), I can not deny that I was very entertained. Apart from Bill Hinzman, the film entertains with a lot of (often very clumsy) gore, and occasional female nudity, which was probably thrown in to keep the viewers watching. The (unintended?) crap-factor of "FleshEater", however, is its arguably greatest quality. The storyline is an incoherent mess, and the performances are incredibly awful, even for an ultra-low budget, the dialogue is the most ridiculous imaginable. A bunch of College kids decide to spend the night in the woods drinking. An undead guy (played by Hinzman) then awakes for no reason, and begins to attack people, who are subsequently turned into Zombies too. The second half of the film is basically an (awful) homage to NOTLD in which several elements of Romero's "Dead" films are shamelessly copied, and re-enacted in an awful manner. Overall, "FleshEater" is an awful film, but it is nonetheless quite amusing for my fellow fans of the sub-genre. Also, it seems as if everybody involved with this was well aware that the film was a piece of crap, and just had fun making it. Some of the acting is just too damn amateurish to be unintentional. Bill Hinzman, gore, and an overload of amusing awfulness - Take it, or leave it, I had a good laugh.
Review of FleshEater
