[8] French,
low-budget, sex 'n' death film in several segments, of greatly varying
quality. The first takes voodoo as it's theme, with a man stripping and
abusing a Barbie doll, while a woman in a bar suffers the effects - it's
neatly handled, with nice camerawork. In the most effective one, which
after a slow start is the best bit of low-budget nastiness I've seen, a
zombie mutilates, bends, folds and tears a victim (female and without much
clothing, naturally!). Eye gouging, breast slicing and tongue piercing are
among the delights on offer, and provide a highly dubious 20 minutes with
the unsynched sound and cheap video working to provide a grimly realistic
feel. The zombie make-up gradually started to look like an executioner's
mask: it was a great relief when the corpse of the victim sat up at the
end, and the two zombies wandered off arm in arm. Unfortunately the
following piece is just stupid - a grieving widow at her husband's coffin
is attacked by his vampiric corpse, has her clothes ripped off and is
bitten in the neck. She then becomes a vampire (or at least, gets some
white makeup on her face) and does a sexy dance to two Tina Turner
songs. Absolutely pointless, though after the preceding segment anything
would be an anti-climax.
2-10/10