While I am not exactly the target audience for this movie, I still dug the hell out of it. John Cameron Mitchell is mind-blowingly incandescent as Hedwig in all her petulance but also strength and beauty.

While I am not exactly the target audience for this movie, I still dug the hell out of it. John Cameron Mitchell is mind-blowingly incandescent as Hedwig in all her petulance but also strength and beauty.
I must confess I spent a significant portion of this movie’s runtime bewildered.
As I started watching this time, I tried counting how many quotes I’ve referenced, or had referenced to me, in actual conversations before.
Happy Dia de Muertos!
The second Zombies movie sadly discards the original’s relentless worship of its color palette by bringing in werewolves, whose aesthetic seems to be “cheap Twilight knock-off via low budget Syfy special.” I mean, the colors were half the draw of the first… why abandon that?
It’s tough for me to articulate how important this movie was for me:
Oct 2022 update: I wrote an expanded review of this, which you’ll find here.
Believe it or not, last year was the first time I ever watched Nightmare from start to finish, and I was completely smitten.
(Note: There’s an updated and expanded review for this film. Read it here.)
Zombies (stylized Z-O-M-B-I-E-S like a pep cheer) is an utterly bizarre, big-budget (for TV) romantic musical about humans and zombies co-mingling, set in a garish, pastel-colored parody of high school.
One of my foundational cinematic beliefs that all three movies in the “Andy Trilogy” are 5-star, Tour De Good masterpieces.