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Chopper Chicks In Zombietown [1989]
Chopper Chicks In Zombietown [1989]

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Director: Dan Hoskins
Actors: Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff, Vicki Frederick, Kristina Loggia
Studio: Prism Leisure
Category: DVD

List Price: £5.99
Buy Used: £1.89
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 21158

Format: Letterboxed, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Running Time: 86 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 5014293142250
ASIN: B000051YIG

Theatrical Release Date: 1989
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
With a title like Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, you'd be excused from any great expectations here--but you'd also be missing out on one of trash-cinema's great pleasures: catching one of Hollywoood's A-list in their pre-fame days. In this case, the catch is Billy Bob Thornton, in a brief appearance as one of the Chopper Chicks' ex-husbands. It may be a guilty pleasure, but seeing this good 'ol boy playing dumb-as-a-doorknob long before Sling Blade (or A Simple Plan) and paying his dues is still, however strangely, gratifying.

As for the film itself, Chopper Chicks is no Hell Comes to Frogtown, but it comes with all of the Troma hallmarks. The requisite beheadings and low-grade effects are all present and correct, along with the so-bad-it's-really-bad dialogue (except for the occasional so-bad-it's-good one-liner). The acting is wooden, the story negligible (cycle sluts come to town, kill zombies, save a schoolbus full of blind kids), and even the appearances by Thornton and original MTV (US) VJ Martha Quinn provide only occasional relief. The DVD extras include a photo gallery of screen-stills and the original trailer. --Randy Silver


Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars So bad it's ..... still pretty bad   March 19, 2004
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

When the zombie motif has already been self-parodied with such class and black humour as Romero's Dawn of the Dead and Peter Jackson's hilarious Braindead, any movie trying to follow in those famous footsteps has to be pretty special. And special, Chopper Chicks in Zombietown ain't.

Ok, it's got a few inspired moments - I liked the ice-cream van chiming out "Dance Macabre", the zombie transfixed by the CCTV was amusing, and the Uzi weilding kid bemoaning the zombie attack on their school bus by grumbling "what rotten luck - going blind, being orphaned and now THIS!" has to be the best line by far in the movie. The townsfolk are reasonably well observed 1950's B-movie caricatures, and the choice of weaponry by the chicks in the final showdown with the zombies was quite amusing.

The overall impression however is dull, tedious and lacking the usual Troma gross-out but stylish trademark. Even at only 83 minutes, it feels overlong and the absence of any outtakes or any other bonus material on the DVD makes poor value for money.

I got my copy for just 3-99 in a high street clear-out sale. With a total of three half-chuckles throughout the movie, I don't feel like I got a bargain.


4 out of 5 stars this film has it all!   November 20, 2003
 2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Picture a gang of biker chicks with permanent scowls (maybe due to their bad haircuts), who ride into a rather strange little town for something to eat.Little do they know that they might become lunch!
This zombie flick has it all, a mad undertaker with a vertically challenged assistant, some blind orphans, and even Billy Bob Thornton playing a hapless, abandoned husband.
The gore is great, and the setting is bizzare.
Will the chopper chicks save the town from a radiation soaked,zombie filled mine? Will the biker girls ever smile? You'll have to watch to find out.



3 out of 5 stars WANNA SEE MY CHOPPER?   September 4, 2003
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The fine folks at Troma released this extremely low budget horror comedy about a bunch of biker women who drift into a dusty old town populated by mostly old people, a magnum wielding midget and a busload of blind kids armed with uzis. They couldn't have picked a better time to visit the place. The local deranged professor is reviving corpses and using them to search for a very valuable radioactive chemical in a run down mine just outside of town. Somehow, he loses control of the living dead and they go off rampaging into town eating the local inhabitants. Among the poorly acted cast is a young Billy Bob Thornton, ex-mtv dj Martha Quinn and Don Calfa from Return of the living dead (Who gives probably the only fine performance)
Billy Bob Thornton doesn't last long enough to save the day so it's up to those biker chicks to nuke the flesh-eating ghouls.

The special effects are impressive in parts and very laughable in others, the acting is cheesy (probably deliberate) but hey, it's a Troma movie. And thats what you want to see in Troma movies...


5 out of 5 stars Absolutly Brilliant   November 25, 2000
 3 out of 4 found this review helpful

This film is one of comical content, some of the scenes in it just make you want to burst out laughing. The action and fighting in it is of high class. Fit girls going at against zoombies - what more could a man want? This is one not to miss.



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