Flesh Freaks

Worm-like parasites infest the dead, returning them to gruesome half-life as rotting, bloodthirsty zombies hungry for the taste of human flesh! Freed from their jungle hell by a secret research expedition, the creatures soon find their way to modern civilization, where they begin their deadly mission to transform the human race into an unstoppable army of the undead. Will they succeed in their gory quest? Will the human race be completely wiped out? Can anyone survive the blood-soaked onslaught of the Flesh Freaks?

Flesh Freaks is a feature-length zombie movie I shot while I was in High School. It was released on DVD by SRS Cinema with a director’s commentary and two of my short films, Satan’s Psycho-Ghoul and Flicker. For the Japanese DVD it was retitled Zombie of the Dead, and there are two “sequels” – Zombie of the Dead 2 and Zombie of the Dead 3: Evolution King, although these are actually unrelated films that also involve zombies.

Thanks to a wave of interest in zombie movies, Flesh Freaks has gotten an unexpected amount of attention; it is often reviewed alongside actual movies, which I find continually surprising since it was shot with a nonprofessional cast (of high school students) and, for the most part, a crew of one.

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Reviews

“An impressive little film that defies its miniscule budget” – Rue Morgue Magazine

“An ambitious movie that stands out from the zero-budget fright flicks” - The Gore Compendium

“A rock ‘em sock ‘em no-budget zombie epic that piles on lotsa laughs and gallons of grue . . . A wildly inventive slice of darkly comic splatter” – Sleazegrinder.com

“An engaging ooze-fest of a zombie movie” - B-Independent.com

“Refreshing, old-school schlock!” - MicroFilm Magazine

“An entertaining exercise in well-executed splatter!” - Uncut Magazine

“The zombie makeup is impressive” - Jamie Russell, Book of the Dead

“One of the best low-budget shot on video features I’ve seen … In the top 5 shot on video zombie movies ever made.” - Todd Tjersland, Astaroth Entertainment

“Very ambitious, frenetic filmmaking!” - J.R. Bookwalter, director of Ozone and The Dead Next Door

“An enjoyable little movie” - Arnold T Blumberg and Andrew Hershberger, Zombiemania!

“A DV feature movie to definitely get your hands on” - Thrae.com

“Three stars . . . a filmmaker to keep your eye on” – Mike Bracken, The Horror Geek

Winner of a Merit Award and nominated for Best Makeup and Best Foreign Film at the 2000 B-Movie Film Festival.