Bath Salt Zombies (2013) (DVD Review)
Directed By: Dustin Wayde Mills
Starring: Brandon Salkil, Josh Eal, Ethan Holey
Rated: UR/Region: 0/16X9/Number of disc: 1
Available from MVD Visuals
The bath salts epidemic facing the southern and mid-western US has been stifled by an unprecedented government crackdown. This has led to a tremendous amount of surplus stock hidden by black market dealers, and a migration of those dealers to the northeast. In New York City, potent strands have surfaced and have attracted the most devoted bath salt junkies. A young aspiring chemist has developed an even stronger batch… but something has gone horribly wrong. The new ultra potent bath salt batch has revealed a major side effect: It turns users into violent flesh seeking ZOMBIES!
Making a good use out of all the latest press on bath salts, Dustin Mills, directs this quick witted tale of a world to which bath salts have been evolved into a drug that makes you want to tear faces off, even worse than the stuff did before. The movie is a very cool looking environment packing CGI settings with natural elements to create a very cool looking environment to which the crazy events in this film take place. We have a pretty clever story, a group of interesting characters, and a whole lot of wacky gore moments that make watching the movie fun and causes the time while watching to fly by. That is always a positive when watching any film.
And we also get all the things a horror fan enjoys. That would mean we have nudity, blood, and a plot that is interesting. Now some of the scenes like a nude scene early on are dragged out a little too much in order to fit in some music it seems, but while those are the only times anything drags at least in one case we have a naked woman to look at. While we would have loved more zombies, we get a well-made horror that uses a small scale and makes it seem much bigger. Any fan of Dustin Mills will enjoy what they get here overall.
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