Hood of the Living Dead DVD with Chris Angelo, Smith Jim James, Ben Juhl (R) +Movie Reviews

Zombies in Da' Hood .....

Ronald Jr. | Chicago, IL | 08/30/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"This is the Worst No-Budget Garbage I have ever Seen. Absolutely no production values. The acting is beyond terrible, and the zombies are just gangsta's running around with fake blood on their shirts growling...LAME! (and there are only 4 or 5 zombies throughout) How they can make this stuff and package it in a slick dvd Cover and sell it for $20....I'll never understand, It Isn't even worth the price af a Rental. Don't waist your time or money on this one, unless you like backyard movies shot on someones camcorder."

Rip-Roaring Good Time....If you really are dead

DeadRisenZombie | North Wales, PA, USA | 04/17/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Hood of the Living Dead eh? some friends of mine rented this movie based off the title of the movies alone. they thought it make a hell of a good movie to end the night and laugh our asses off. Well this wouldve been great but they tried a bit too hard on this one. I mean come on...i know youre trying to make a movie here but lighten up a bit. Its so serious its funny. The acting is terrible. The make-up isnt the worst but its not good either. Its kind of funny because its so bad. I think i was the only one that stayed awake and watched the whole thing. Anyways if youre looking for a decent movie to laugh at and make fun of here it is. Hell I love horror movies and I had some fun watching it...corny jokes were all said to myself but oh well. Rent it just to make fun of it. Have fun zombies"

Are they serious?

Kevin Scarelli | Chicago, IL | 02/23/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Just because this is a B-Movie doesn't excuse the fact that it contains sub par acting, bad special effects and a serious lack of direction. I like a good zombie flick like the next horror buff. But I will not excuse this movie's weaknesses merely on the basis that it is a B- Movie. Even though this is a low budget film the viewer still expects to be mildly entertained. This film was just downright atrocious. George Romero's movies were made on a very low budget as well and they turned out to be cult classics.

If a movie is low budget and the acting isn't the greatest than it should atleast beef up on the writing and plot. This movie fails miserably at that. I don't understand how anyone could give this a five star rating not unless they were brain dead or trying to mislead someone into throwing their hard earned money on this waste of time film.

Sorry, but this film is a low blow to the zombie horror genre."

Garbage, terrible, awful, cheap, I hated it

Mount_Olympus | above the delicatessan | 10/22/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Need I say more? It looks like it was shot on a camcorder. The acting is so awful you have to see it to believe it. If you can sit thru this movie (I played it like 4 times but ended up house cleaning or checking email and just letting it play) then you must be either in a coma, or related to someone involved in this film. How in the world are they charging $20.00 to buy this movie. Get a video of your next rectal exam, and watch that for a better production value.
minus 50 gazillion stars"

If you need to ask if this movie is good, you're in the wron

Robert P. Beveridge | Cleveland, OH | 03/13/2007

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Hood of the Living Dead (The Quiroz Brothers, 2004)

It is only the fact that I saw Venice Underground and the remake of The Wicker Man in the same weekend as this that stops Hood of the Living Dead from garnering the title of Worst Movie I've Seen So Far This Year. I mean, this is abominable-- it's bad filmmaking without any of the benefits of Midnight Skater. In fact, I cannot think of a single thing to say in this movies defense except that it's not Venice Underground or the remake of The Wicker Man.

In what passes thinly for something that may have at one time resembled a plot, Scott (Chris Angelo) and Ricky (Carl Washington, who has the bad fortune to have starred in both Quiroz Bros. And Daniel Zirrilli movies within a year of one another-- surely the kiss of death for any aspiring actor) are scientists working for Dr. Richards (Solo por Hoy's Victor Zaragoza) on a formula to speed cell regeneration. When Scotty's brother Jermaine (Dope Game 2's Brandon Daniels in his second appearance on film) is killed in a drive-by, Ricky and Scott use the formula on him. When it doesn't seem to work, Jermaine is taken away in an ambulance, and Ricky vows revenge on the shooters, recruiting Jermaine's gangsta-wannabe friends to gun them down. Which would normally start a gang war, but not here-- the formula did work, turning Jermaine into a zombie who's bent on his own revenge-- turning the shooters into zombies. Yes, I'm serious. Zombie gang wars, folks.

Actually, think about it-- that would have been a pretty funny concept. However, the Quiroz Brothers never pick it up and run with it, instead focusing on the scientists and their hired-mercenary help trying to survive the zombie onslaught. (Read "onslaught" here as "a handful of easily killed walking dead people".) It's no-budget silliness, but as Midnight Skater showed, no-budget silliness can be great if you've got a meaty script and some original ideas. Hood of the Living Dead has neither; it stumbles into every convention there is and does nothing at all original with them. *"

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	Hood of the Living Dead Actors: Chris Angelo, Smith Jim James, Ben Juhl, Ed Quiroz, Jose Rosete Directors: Ed Quiroz, Jose Quiroz Genres: Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy R 2005 1hr 30min When his brother is killed, a young scientist takes drastic means to revive him and unleashes a zombie plague on his neighborhood.
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