Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Alright, well for a movie from 1987, this was surprisingly lame. I had expected somewhat more in the horror and perhaps even gore category.Now, the idea of having a zombie viral outbreak in a prison might have seemed good on script paper, but failed to shine through on the screen. Maybe that was because you never really buy into the prison atmosphere in this movie. Everything is just a little bit too cozy, and there are surprisingly few guards for a prison of this size.Anyway, the movie stands out from many other zombie movies, in an odd way, as the zombies here seem to be alive, but decomposing. They are capable of talking and acting fairly coherently. That sort of killed the mood for me. A zombie is not a dead person just behaving fairly much like when alive, except for having a hunger for flesh. No, a zombie is a shell of the former self, devoid of life and soul (if one believes in that). So I never really bought the zombie scenario presented here.As for the acting, well... Most of it was tolerable, but nothing astounding to be found here. Except for maybe the woman playing the lady they brought into the prison from the outside. Wow, it was physically painful to watch her performance.Moving on to the gore and effects. Well, given the movie is quite old by now, the effects are, of course, way out of date. But I am sure that by standards back in 1987, these were believable and scary to watch. Just keep that in mind, because today they are not really all that believable.The good part of the movie is that the story is fairly straight going, and keeps going at a good pace. It doesn't become overly dull so that you want to get up and leave.I had expected a tad more from this movie, despite it being old. I would have rated it as 2, but given it is a zombie movie, my heart gets all soft and mushy, so 3 out of 10. This is a movie that you sit down to watch if you are a hardcore zombie fan, like myself. Otherwise, you might be bored out of your mind sitting through this.

Rautus When I heard about Zombie Death House I was intrigued about it, the one thing that interested me was that John Saxton had not only stared in this but also directed this, he's a great actor that's been in some classic movies like Enter the Dragon, Black Christmas, A Nightmare on Elm Street. So I decided to order it because I'm a fan of Zombie movies like the Dead Trilogy, After Death, Zombi 2, Zombi 3 etc, also being a fan of John Saxton was another reason I ordered this film. This film came with a $1000 dollar shock insurance, I thought that was kind of interesting since the box said that this film has been chosen to have this shock insurance since the movie is supposed to contain some really shocking scenes, I've seen Zombi 2 and that movie was extreme with the graphic violence so I thought that this movie must be like that but a little bit more extreme. When I was watching it I didn't find anything that shocking, it was entertaining but not shocking like that DVD said. One thing I found about this movie was, it's called Zombie Death House but there's hardly any zombies in it. There's hardly any screen time where you see loads of zombies, only a few and the scenes are quick. The film manly focus on the main characters in the prison, the film does have gore but it feels tame compared to the George A Romero movies and the Italian Zombie Movie. Zombie Death House actually felt more like a prison movie than a zombie movie, remove the zombie plot and this film could easily work as a prison movie. Maybe that's why it was just called Death House in some places so people didn't think the main focus was the zombies.Zombie Death House was entertaining though, the acting was fine but nothing amazing. John Saxton did a great performance, it was interesting to see him to handle the film has a director and actor. The gore was okay but it wasn't has graphic as the other zombie movies out there.The film sees a man named Derek Keillor who works has a driver for a mob boss named Vic being wrongly accused of murder after being found sleeping with the boss's wife. Derek is sent to Death row for what he's done, meanwhile a government agent is testing an experimental drug on the inmates to see the effects. One of the Inmates starts acting crazy and is sent to the medical bay to see what's happened to him. They find that his skin is starting to fall off, they then inject another inmate with it to see the effect of the drug. During the infected prisoner's execution he breaks out and beings to attack the security guards and soon the infection spreads. The inmates break out and start a riot holding the Warden, his family and a few officers hostage so they can escape, outside the army have the place surrounded so they can contain the infection before it spreads outside the walls of the prison since anyone who has contact with someone infected can catch it. The prisoners try to find a way out since the military won't allow anyone out. With the help of a woman who helped create the virus Derek tries to escape from the prison and clear his name.Zombie Death House is an entertaining zombie movie that may disappoint some who was expecting this to something be like Dawn of the Dead or Zombi 2. Fans of low budget zombie flicks, prison movies and John Saxton may want to check this out. It is a gem of an 80's horror flick. Check this out.

elmondomacabro This is pretty cool in an 80's kind of way, take 'good' looking main guy and throw him in a hell hole on a frame up, add government madmen, zombies, slime balls and gay prisoners and SHAZAM! You've got a movie!John Saxon is excellent as always but I think the show is stolen by the Rasta Zombie, I've never seen one of those before. Why is it the secret antidote to these plagues always looks like cough syrup and there's never enough to go around? Prison movies are always good for a laugh and this one is no exception, a great way to spend some free time. Maybe Saxon's time on Cannibal Apocalypse influenced his direction on this, as it really does have an Italian feel as stated by the other review here.

mguyer I myself am a big fan of low-budget 80's horror films. This isn't the worst but still not to spectacular. The plot line is decent but drags out way too long. You're through half the movie before you even get to see any zombie action. The kills aren't very creative and the zombies aren't too crafty. I truly think this movie would have been better if they left out the zombies and just made it into some mafia flick. It's watchable but I feel that this film did steal at least an hour of my life. I'll give the film credit for being somewhat original. If you are really into B horror movies it's worth a viewing but if you're not, don't bother. But you don't have to take my word for it.