Hard Rock Zombies

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Summary: Hard Rock Zombies DVD review.
Review: I did this review judging that you've already seen the film, I didn't go into the story aspect of the film.


Being a fan of Hard Rock Zombies for a few years now, me and my friends have been awaiting a DVD release of this film. Well now it's here, and here's my review.

My initial reaction while hearing the first key drum beats to the opening track was oh god, it sounds awful. I didn't expect much sound wise after turning over the DVD box and saw AC-3 sound, this normally means in my head the sound isn't going to be great. At the time I had it running though my 5.1 surround sound receiver. After listen to a few minutes of the movie, I decided it would be best just to let my TV speakers handle the audio.

Then after my reaction to the sound it was on to the picture. As well my initial reaction to the sound, the picture quality wasn't a good one either. The opening shoot features a road zipping by into a tunnel, then the title credit, which is red instead of white. It just looks like the film this was taken from wasn't well preserved, a lot of new lines and hairs if you will, were beset on to the picture that didn`t exists on the US VHS version. After watching awhile the image did seem to be sharper then the VHS. No VHS fuzz, but still it's far from perfect. A lot of technical errors, on a few occasions the film would just lock up for a seconds. Then it had a few clipping issues where the 75% of the screen would flash white. Then a few static clips though out the picture.

Now onto my biggest problem with this DVD. Maybe I'm nuts, but I find the music numbers in this movie just awesome. Well every time the band is playing a rockin track then a line of dialog is spoken the music is doubled up then a few seconds afterwards, making a ungodly bunch of echoing in place of the wonderful tracks. I don't know if they've taken the audio from a test version of the film, or if the dialog just simply couldn't be heard so they had to boost the speech and replace background sound. I don't know but it isn't good. I love the music in this film. If anyone reading this has a soundtrack please email me, I'll make it worth your while.

Alright so I pointed out all of the bad points, now I'll point out the good points. This is great if your a fan. The picture at time does seem to be crisper then the VHS. It's good to own a official release of this film. But here is what makes this DVD worth owning to any Hard Rock Zombies fan. Their are a lot of scenes that were cut out of the original VHS release. Those scenes have been added back in this version. Not like it's a entire different movie, but it is nice to see a few more scenes being a fan of the film.

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Special Features, their are none. They have a cast in crew section that doesn't reveal more then the ending credits do.
In closing the picture isn't great, but it's probably the best your going to find for this title.

Well I guess that does it for my review. (...) 4 out of 5 stars. Considering the likelihood of another DVD being produced I was easy on my star ratings.

Rating:
Summary: JUST AS BAD, AND GREAT AS I REMEMBER IT BEING...
Review: Wow...a film I never thought would get released on DVD. Here it is...and oh boy...it's just as lousy, stupid, and ridiculous as I remember it being. Why did I give it 5 stars you ask? Well, call it nostalgia....nostalgia for renting ratty looking VHS tapes from the local "Mom & Pop" video stores that no longer exist. This movie brings back great memories of those wonderful old days when I would rent ANYTHING with the words "zombie", "horror", or "splatter" in the title. The actual movie is crap, the DVD quality is crap...but the memories are great, and forever(now thanks to DVD).