Night of the Zombies (1981)

Night of the Zombies (1981, USA) C-78m. ** D: Joel M. Reed. Starring Jamie Gillis, Samantha Grey, Ryan Hilliard, Ron Armstrong, Joel M. Reed. Odd little curio about two researchers who are trying to locate missing WW2 battalion of G.I.s in Germany. When they disappear, Gillis joins a scientist in search of a biochemical gas that was reportedly used in 1944. Did it turn the soldiers into zombies? Weird, occasionally confusing horror film is leagues better than Reed's Troma-produced splatter trash BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1976), but still rather cheap and not really convincing. Gillis performance achieves a kind of Elliott Gould-like coolness or detachment. Has some cult movie possibilities. Alternative titles: BATTALION OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE CHILLING, GAMMA 693, NIGHT OF THE WEHRMACHT ZOMBIES, and SISTER OF DEATH.


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