Bath Salt Zombies (2013)

Really Surprised!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This film is not about zombies in the traditional sense. An illegal drug called bath salts is making its users become violent and rip people's faces off. Done to a punk rock sound track, the film is more about the music than the production. Bad acting and dialogue. The opening is animation, and not very good animation. A short 70 minute film for people who are stoned. Good nudity.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Erin R. Ryan, Bella Demente FF)

How in the world am I gonna pull 10 lines out for this review? Probably the same question the writer & director said when they got a hold of a camera & had to come up with real lines & a script. All I can think of is, Well when you give an 8th grader a movie camera & ask them to go out & make a movie, this is what happens, Actually these kids today are pretty slick & would probably have done a better job all the way around. I'll go ahead & do this review simply because I wouldn't want anyone to endure the 70min of mind waste this movie provided. I kept thinking the whole time.... If Zombies were real.. This is what kind of movie they would make. And how in the word did it get a 3.1 rating? I would have a hard time giving it a 0.1. This is one movie that won't be making it into my Z collection,

**ONE OR TWO POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD**This is the first Dustin Mills movie I've seen so far, I have heard many good things about his other films such as Puppet Monster Massacre and Easter Casket so I really hope Bath Salt Zombies is not up there with his more acclaimed output because, despite the fact that I somewhat enjoyed this movie, I still found it to be lacking in several places.First things first, let's start off with the good. The set pieces looked fantastic and the movie is extremely well-shot for such a low-budget. Some of the gore effects are decent if ultimately unsatisfying, but unfortunately most of them are below par (more on that later). There are two scenes of nudity for T&A fans, one of which shows pretty much everything, and both go on for quite a long time. The cartoon segments are cool, and the puppetry is well done (the best scene in the movie involves a dog mutated by chemicals).Now for the bad. For one, the plot is bare bones, what you read in the IMDb summary is as deep as it goes. The sound is all over the place, whenever people are talking the volume could be quiet as a mouse one second and blaring the next. There really isn't that much gore and, while a few effects look decent enough, a majority of what is there is really nothing to write home about and looks rather poor (any blood splatter from gunshot wounds is just red fog imposed on to the screen with CGI). The make-up for the titular Bath Salt Zombies is rather laughable. And, to top it all off, we get a stupid and frustrating non-ending.Despite these flaws, I did find the movie to be moderately entertaining in places. But unfortunately, the bad outweighs the good. I will still be checking out Dustin Mill's other films eventually, I do like his style, so hopefully he is capable of impressing me.

An odd theme that had the potential to be quite funny, but wasn't. Cartoon-style intro was good, but rest of the film appears to be very home-made and poorly directed. Sexy/erotic scenes were pointlessly long. Don't bother watching unless you're just intrigued by the title.Acting:Not great - Plot:Poor - Ending:Odd- Effects:BasicLaughs:None - Scares:None - Twists:None - Gore:Poor - 3d Version:N/AOverall opinion: >>Worth watching for free: No >>Worth watching at bargain price: No >>Worth watching at standard price: Hell No