Thirsty Dead / Swamp of the Ravens (Something Weird)
by Manuel Caño, Terry Becker
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Actor: Fredricka Meyers, Jennifer Billingsley, John Considine, Judith McConnell, Tani GuthrieDirector: Manuel Caño, Terry Becker
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Terry Becker
Producer: Carlos H. Reyes
Producer: Fernando M. Fernández Arbizu
Writer: Charles Dennis
Writer: Lou Whitehill
Writer: Santiago Moncada
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 175 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
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Summary: 4 Stars
The Thirsty Dead
There's this tribe of ancient zombies who live in the jungles of Bangkok, or Beijing, or the Philippines, or some other such Asian province, and in order to survive and stay young they must drink the blood of beautiful young women. So, they send out their young Asian goons to go to the strip joints, and the red lamp houses to kidnap bodacious young babes and carry them back to their camp in the jungle. After one excursion they inadvertently capture a young woman who strongly resembles some goddess that they once worshiped. Apparently there was some ancient prophecy that stated she was going to return to them, so they begin treating her like a queen. The fun has only begun... NOT!
I didn't even bother to watch this film when my DVD came in the mail, because I had already seen it. I ordered this for the other movie. I rented this movie about two years ago, and the print was so old and dilapidated that it wouldn't even play on my VCR until I used the head cleaner about a dozen times to clean off the dust that was left by the tape. By the time the film was over I ended up wishing I hadn't even bothered. This film is dullsville. I rented it hoping to see a really cool zombie flick, featuring beautiful young maidens being knocked out, and carried off into mysterious dark caves. What I got instead was a low-budget mess that just reminded me of a really bad episode of Star Trek. That was the last time I trusted a movie box that had no pictures on the back.
Swamp of The Ravens
Dr. Frosta is a biochemist. He is conducting research on animals based on a theory that certain parts of the brain continue to live eight minutes after clinical brain death. Hence, with the right drug injections, the dead can be brought back. He puts forth his theory to the medical council, and requests permission to conduct further experiments on cadavers, but of course they refuse (...). Of course that doesn't stop the good Dr. He decides to ignore the council and find his own test subjects. He preys on the homeless, winos, the handicapped, even his ex-girlfriend (I'll go into more juicy detail about that later).
Needless to say, most of his experiments are failures, and his rejected test subjects get dumped into the raven-surrounded swamp outside of his home. Hence the title of the film. But a filthy swamp can only hold so many corpses, and it eventually starts to reject them, as the heads of many of the Doctor's victims begin floating up to the surface and bobbing on top of the water like apples.
Pretty good movie overall. The Pink Floyd/Moody Blues/Jimmy Hendrix style soundtrack is totally awesome and compliments the dark mood of the film rather nicely. The heads floating on the water imagery is excellent. It got me cracking-up with laughter, as a matter of fact. Maybe that's the wrong reaction, but I don't care. I still liked it. My favorite part, though, was when the Dr. kidnapped and murdered his ex-girlfriend and turned her into one of his test-subjects. Just before he conducts his final experiment on her, he decides to get one last handful of hanky panky. So, he climbs on top of her corpse and begins screwing her, and kissing her cold dead lips. Ah, yummy. That was worth the price of admission, right there.
I would have given this DVD 5 stars if not for the first film. The Thirsty Dead just wasn't very good. I think Swamp Of The Ravens would have done just fine as a stand alone film on this DVD, but of course that would break "Something Weird Video's" tradition of sticking several films on a single disc. I guess it's a good policy to have. It offers great bargains on many obscure horror films that you might not otherwise be able to find anywhere else. I still think this DVD was worth it, though, and I'll definitely be checking out the other inhabitants of the "Something Weird" catalog very soon.
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