Traveling to a remote small-town, an emerging hard rock band scheduled to perform in the area finds the backlash against their music so severe the town eventually kills them, only to soon be resurrected as undead ghouls seeking revenge and turning the rest of the town into zombies as well.This here wasn't all that bad although it did have a few issues. One of the few bright spots to the film is the absolutely bonkers and bizarre storyline that really doesn't make a whole lot of sense here. The fact that this backwoods town, which includes everything from inbred hicks, sexual deviants, murderous dwarves and deformities as well as being the secret hiding place of Hitler and his mistress, gives this a truly deranged atmosphere that makes for a wholly enjoyable setup. It truly doesn't seem to conform to any singular type of offensive group to be after these sorts of people as it seems to be such a varied mix that none of it makes sense as to how the town functions at all with so many disparate elements of society represented here. That weirdness carries over into the rampage where the deranged bloodlust that sweeps through the town causes a series of enjoyable scenes with them killing off the group. From the surprise ambush in the bathroom while taking a shower with one of them to the chase through the outer parts of the village and into the countryside surrounding everything which is all quite delirious fun and exciting seeing the varying kills being committed in an over-the-top gleeful manner. That their eventual rampage on the citizens of the town responsible leas into the uproarious and silly final half with all manner of fun to be had from the connection between the zombies overrunning the town and the rock bands' performance. Coupled with the fine cheesy nature of the film from the songs and the overall make-up here, these here are enough to hold off its flaws. The films' biggest problem is maintaining any kind of semblance of logic or coherence. The fact that this throws so much goofiness into the story manages to make this one seem like such a bizarre and illogical series of themes throughout here the film can't help but just go into some outre ideas. Nothing really makes sense, from why the band is booked to perform in such a town that prohibits their kind of music to begin with, to why the town reacts to them being there and how they all came together in this location. More problematic is the fact that there's no point in their resurrection which just happens and is cut off by the lone individual who knows before he can finish so that rules out any kind of background information on how the group is turned into zombies or why they only target those that originally wronged them. Why people who never got bitten by the band get turned into murderous zombies either is never brought up and as a whole nothing about the film makes any kind of logical sense. As well, the cheapness might be a major deterrent here from the overall look of the production to the storyline and how the zombies look and act which isn't for everyone, but overall this one is mostly undone but not making any kind of sense.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language and Nudity.

As I sat down to watch "Hardrock Zombies", I didn't know what to expect. By its title I was assuming it was a Troma production… and it's not, but it wouldn't be out of place either. Really I don't know what I just watched. Crazy, stupid. Indeed. Amusing at times, but boy what the hell was going on? This cruddy low-cost, shot-on-video production is one noisy, twisted ("You can watch, but don't touch.") and strange horror / comedy that throws caution to wind, as if it was made on the spot adding details as they went along. Everything is chucked in from rock music, T&A, a nutty backwoods family (consisting of a werewolf, midgets, and psychotic nymph), unwelcoming hillbillies, zombies, Nazis and Adolf Hitler(!). It's terrible, but it has that feeling like it was aiming for that. By the end of it, what it feels like is one very long, spontaneously tripped-out music video clip with wild camera-work. Break out the jamming (you know rock ballads) and the pointless posing --- with many disjointed images edited in (a lady dancing around), but don't forget the story involving an up and coming rock band stopping by in a backwoods town to play and staying at the home of the beautifully strange girl they picked up. So you might be asking how do zombies come to be, well wait around for the halfway mark. This when the zombies show up (it's not quite as random as many of the ideas popping up) and from then it gets even sillier ("ghouls don't like heads"). You don't know how, but it just does. The production has tacky make-up on show, wooden performances, is shoddily written and is completely direction-less with its meandering pace."Hardrock Zombies" is inane rubbish, which you might find yourself digging through.

If Orson Welles only had the talent he would have made Hard Rock Zombies, but he didn't. So these guys did. "Ghouls hate heads..." The plot of this movie is incomprehensible. The execution of the script is amateurish. It's quite possibly the stupidest movie of all time. And if you haven't seen it you're not alive. Get yourself some Milk Duds, some Schlitz, and HRZ, Troll 2, The Pit and have a grooviest bad movies of all time-athon. Umm, the music sounds OK, too, when you're really drunk. It's really kind of hard to say ten lines about Hard Rock Zombies. I just wanted to say it rocked I didn't want to be here all night trying to think of things to say about it.

"Hard Rock Zombies" raises the intriguing question: if a movie's plot involves a metal band being killed by Nazis and rising from the grave to deliver the ultimate rock concert, is it possible for that movie to suck? The answer is no, but I admit there were moments when I had my doubts. This was mainly because of the movie's unfortunate habit of taking scenes that could be funny if they lasted a minute or two but instead dragging them out for what feels like hours. The most egregious instance comes when the rockers arrive in the town of Grand Guignol and upset the locals with outrageous antics such as juggling beer cans and miming; the camera cuts to three townspeople looking on disapprovingly so many times that I wondered if the DVD was getting stuck in the player. Out of curiosity, I went back later to count the total number of these cuts, and I lost track at *30.* That's not an exaggeration: the filmmakers really thought the best way to convey the full emotional complexity of this scene was to show us the same three guys frowning over *30 times.* Such scenes are minor annoyances, however, compared to when the rockers become zombies and head to the concert hall for what is supposedly the ultimate rock concert. This is what we've been waiting for the entire movie, yet they play to a completely empty room and worse yet, choose some kind of terrible glam love ballad called "Cassie's Song." The Jonas Brothers rock more than this song. Worse still, the song takes place only about an hour into the movie, meaning I had to brace myself for many more scenes of God knows what. These scenes were so awful that there's no point in describing them at length; most of the town's residents are transformed into ghouls through a convoluted process that I didn't understand (mainly because the character explaining it delivers his lines like he has no tongue), and the remaining humans defend themselves using cardboard cutouts of celebrity heads. This portion of the movie would no doubt drive a less patient viewer to suicide, but being the resilient man that I am, I stuck with it to the end, and I'm glad I did, because it turns out the director was lulling me into a false sense of security. What I thought was the alleged "ultimate rock concert" halfway through was in fact a mere teaser for the real ultimate rock concert. The rockers arise from their graves a second time, and instead of playing "Cassie's Song," they play a Judas Priest-style riff that is so godlike in its rocking it drives all the ghouls into an underground Nazi gas chamber, where they perish. The gas chamber scene is briefly intercut by a shot of a ghoul EATING ITS OWN HEAD, which is easily one of the strangest images I've ever seen. This final sequence is cool enough to seal the movie's place in the pantheon of great 80's film, but Christ almighty, did we have to jump through some hoops to get there. 8/10. Recommended.