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Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Michael Ledo The movie opens with a silly close range blood squirting shoot out. Mortimer (David A. Lockhart) is a bounty hunter. After collecting his bounty he opts to go after an Indian (Rick Mora) wanted for raping a "white virgin." (I don't write this stuff.) Others have tried and died. He lives in the woods. Mortimer buys Rhiannon (Camille Montgomery) a reluctant woman to come with him to use as bait.Meanwhile there is a subplot of a meteor being found in a farmer's field with fluorescent green stuff and no Steven King. The farmer has a daughter (Heather Montanez) who does take a bath...and like any good circus, the big top is worth the price of admission. The meteor turns the town's folk into the fast moving zombies as opposed to the raise from the dead variety.I liked the metal soundtrack. We've seen worse acting. Many are first time actors. The special effects or make-up was very stiff. The dialogue wasn't great. The buttons on the women's blouses never seemed to work either.No f-bombs, no sex, nudity (Camille Montgomery, Mandy Pauline, Heather Montanez)

GL84 Living in the old west, a cowboy attempting to hunt a savage killer instead runs into a small town on the frontier menaced by the living dead raised by a fallen meteorite and must put his mission on hold to battle the swarm of creatures overrunning the town.This one was a lot better than expected. A lot of this one's positives are based on the second half when it gets to the zombie- based goodness which has a great deal to like about this one. The idea of the meteorite spewing the toxic fumes that turns the town is a nice one, making for a somewhat enjoyable concept that plays well with the western-based setting, which makes for some fun times here as this one goes for the nice action scenes of the creatures attacking in the town and out in the woods where they first encounter them. Those first encounters, from the interruption of the shootout to the creek brawl and the chase through the open plains, are quite fun and really set this one up for the action-packed scenes in the abandoned town where the zombified townspeople come out to launch their attacks. From there, it leads into all the fun of the zombies' ambush in the saloon where they come across the different creatures patrolling the area resulting in all the barricading efforts and different escape attempts hiding in the rooms and hallways from them trying to get at the group, the shootouts along the main street of town, the run-ins where they have to clear the creatures still around as well as the big final battle out in the countryside where the woods filled with zombies get blasted quite gruesomely in rather entertaining sequences. Before these, it still has some rather enjoyable Western-style fun with the nice shoot-out and brawl that opens this one as well as their later fistfight in the woods that's really enjoyable, while the frontier- town setup and the lifestyle shown gives this a solid introductory world to fall into. With all these scenes giving this one some nice suspenseful moments as well as giving this plenty of gore and a great look at the zombie make-up for the creatures, there's plenty to like with this one as it has some enjoyable qualities. It still has some problematic areas here, which concerns the rather ham-fisted way the zombies are introduced here as the fact that there's just no real easy way for the film to make the zombie apocalypse make sense here. It's just not all that well-developed here in terms of generating a cohesive feel with the western-genre and the zombie genre mixed together here, and overall it's quite weakly mixed together here since it's somewhat confusingly mixed together. Likewise, the fact that the zombie behavior is somewhat odd and different than what most will be expecting here as this one does play around with the rules, not transferring the condition through a bite and running after people formulating plans instead of just aimless shuffling which makes them somewhat different than what most are used to. The last problem is that the low-budget qualities here are on full-display and makes for a somewhat distracting appearance due to the CGI work and the laughably inaccurate period setting here which gives away the fact that it's not there at all. Still, this one did have some decent work about it.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity and Language.

BakuryuuTyranno This movie is quite atypical of zombie films, yet retains the essence of "Night of the Living Dead". It's different because it focuses on three characters, without the usual redshirts.But like "Night of the Living Dead", it's focused on the interaction between the characters.However, the extended action scenes of the protagonist gunning down shambling zombies mean its ultimately an exploitation flick and nothing more.But without including spoilers I can't explain why "Cowboys and Zombies" doesn't work. The real problem is towards, we learn important information about the male protagonists and then, one is abruptly killed, the other dying soon afterwards. It comes out of nowhere and makes the story feel kinda pointless.

peteranderson975 This is a very cheesy film that seems to have had a name change to cash on in on the Cowboys and Aliens summer blockbuster release. It was originally called the Dead and the Damned but I think the name change suits this low-budget zombie filmWe meet our hero right in the middle of a gunfight that looks as convincing as any Wild West Show. Our hero is bounty hunter Mortimer (David A. Lockhart) and he is desperate for cash ( I have to confess that Mortimer's soft high voice did cause a giggle when I first heard it). The clerk paying him for delivering his latest catch tells him about a large bounty for an Indian (Rick Mora) who has been accused of rape and murder is wanted alive. The authorities know where he is but other bounty hunters who went after him never came back.Mortimer heads to Jamestown, a prospecting town in the California mountains. There he finds out where the Indian is and then our hero buys a woman called Rhiannon (Camille Montgomery) from a sleazy guy selling women on the street. So far and no sign of zombies but that changes soon.We next see a women washing herself topless outside and Jebediah is leering at her from behind some bushes. He gets caught when his father calls for help with something he has just dug up. It is a strange spherical rock with slits in its side and a glowing green core. They load it on a wheelbarrow and wheel it to Jamestown. Once the whole town has gathered round to look at the rock Jebediah's father starts whacking it with shovel. Green spores pour out of the slits and covers everyone gathered around. Naturally it is these spores which turn people into mindless flesh-eating zombies.Meanwhile Mortimer and Rhiannon get the top of the mountain and look down on an amazing sea of cloud stretching out below them. Mortimer ties Rhiannon to a stake in the ground as bait for the Indian, while he hides in a tree and plays with his gun before going to sleep. But the Indian is not the sex mad crazy we'd been led to believe and he sneaks down, steals the bullets from the gun of the sleeping dweeb and cuts Rhiannon free with his axe. After a fist fight which Mortimer only wins by pulling a dinky little girly Derringer from his boot the Indian gets captured.You can guess that it's not too long before they all have to work together when they discover that woods are full of zombies. One thing the two men don't do very well is keeping the unarmed Rhiannon safe from harm and every time Rhiannon is left on her own she gets attacked by a zombie. Mortimer may express guilt about putting her in danger but that doesn't mean he does anything useful about it. There is one part were they get back to Jamestown and they make themselves safe inside the saloon because the windows have been boarded up. While that is true they seem to neglect that the saloon has saloon doors which don't do much to stop zombies. There's a German bounty hunter prowling around the area too but he does nothing useful and his character just seemed pointless.The film is not totally terrible but it is full of lazy clichés. It's watchable if you think you can bear another low-budget zombie film.Rating 5/10