Review of Bloodeaters (1980) by Jesse P — 22 Feb 2010

In Toxic Zombies (though more commonly known as Bloodeaters), a group of weed growing hippies are preparing to grab up as much crop deep within the mountainous forests as they can and split, but not before viciously killing two government agents that kill one of their own.

After that, the government illegally uses an experimental pesticide to kill off all the crops within the area, with bad results. After the pesticides get on the hippies, they go on a murderous zombie rampage as they start devouring campers and such throughout.

It's up to a husband and wife duo, as well as two kids they pick up (one of which is severely retarded) to escape this zombie rampage and avoid corrupt government officials if they want to get out alive.

If you can get past the poor quality of this film (looks as though its a direct VHS transfer to DVD; no remastering or cleaning up whatsoever), it starts off promising, but then gets dreadfully dull and repetitive the rest of the way.

The bad VHS transfer really took me out of the film. At least the year this was made matches the look. Overall, a dull, bad film. The only character I found myself rooting for was an adorable cat. That's it.

Lame film. It's no wonder writer/director/star Charles McCrann never did another movie, though I am sorry to say he was one of many victims of 9/11 (he worked at the World Trade Center).