Andreas Schnaas
Zombie 90: Extreme Pestilence

Imagine a boring Saturday night, perhaps with friends, where you have nothing to do but watch a good horror movie. Well, let's say that night any film with something intelligent in it would bore you, but you're tired of The Ring, The Eye, etc.? That night you crave pure massacre, a good trash film from the late eighties! Well, from Germany comes "Zombie 90: Extreme Pestilence" for you, one of the stupidest and most violent films you can watch! It's an amateur film directed by the German director Andreas Schnaas, the author of the Violent Shit saga, in short, a god.

The (almost non-existent) plot is about an epidemic caused by the crash of a plane loaded with hazardous substances, resulting in a zombie invasion. It will be up to two medical researchers (with two goofy-looking faces you can't imagine) to stop the zombies by randomly killing them with axes, chainsaws, guns, etc. The film is practically always set in a forest, probably because the budget is non-existent and there wasn't money to shoot it elsewhere. In short, throughout the film you will see mutilations, disembowelments, liters and liters of blood, guts, heads split in half by axes, chainsaws, in other words, what is needed to make a good film.

The "special effects" are recreated ridiculously; in fact, our Schnaas, despite already being in 1990, doesn't use computer graphics probably due to a lack of funds. Don't miss the film's flagship scene: a man and a woman stroll through the forest, she is in a wheelchair holding a child. Out of nowhere a zombie appears and kills him without the woman noticing. When she discovers the undead and obviously starts screaming, the zombie decapitates her with an axe, then takes the child (clearly a Cicciobello doll!) and rips it in half, mangling it. The actors are certainly friends or acquaintances of the director, in fact, the acting is embarrassing, and the actresses are not the most beautiful (just think of the horrible fat woman taking a shower).

Anyway, the film is an ultra-gore piece for strong stomachs, suitable for those who gobble up this kind of trash with bread.