The Stink of Flesh (2004)
Directed by Scott Phillips
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(Entertaining)
(Amateur Night)
(Hot Sex)
Summary
The movie starts out with a bang - Matool dukes it out with a zombie and finishes it off with a nail driven through the head. But after unsuccessfully saving a girl's life who's brother has just been eaten by some other zombies, Matool is captured by Nathan and taken back to his pad. Nathan is married to Dexy and they just happen to have an alternative bedroom style! Matool gets it on with Dexy while Nathan watches and then Dexy's sister Sally enters the fray. The problem is, Sally has "undeveloped genitalia" and a sister attached to her stomach (ala Basket Case???), so her participation is limited. Later three soldiers come to the ranch, one of them seriously wounded from a zombie attack and seeking refuge. Dexy is more than willing to add a few more guys to her orgy, but Nathan is starting to brood. Finally everything comes to a head:
- The ailing soldier teases Sally and her deformity, and in a fit of rage she stabs him in the neck with a pair of scissors.
- The dead soldier's buddy reacts by shooting and killing her.
- The dead soldier's other buddy becomes his next meal.
- Nathan, meanwhile, has gone out to the shed for some zombie sex, but the zombie gets the best of him instead.
- The surviving soldier and Matool get in a fist fight for the rights to Dexy outside, surrounded by zombies. They finally come to their senses and make a run for it.
Review
This movie is tough to score - on the one hand it definitely has a lot of zombies and decent gore, but on the other the majority of the movie is more about a weird sex fest than zombies. Clearly this is on the low end of the budget scale, but they worked hard on making the zombies look good. The story is definitely a little lacking, but the zombies and some pretty bad acting at times keep you laughing.
Zombie Traits
| Speed | 
(Sloth)
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| Intelligence | 
(George W)
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| Strength |
(Pee Wee)
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| Zombie Source | not really mentioned, other than being a virus |
These zombies are pretty slow and definitely stupid. They can't even pry off a flimsy piece of wood nailed over a window. There is a new strain of hyper zombies that are faster and stronger, but we only see a glimpse of them.
Best Zombie Kill
Perhaps the best kill was the revenge of the sex slave zombie. The girl Nathan murdered, chained up in his shed, and ultimately raped was ready the next time! Nathan enters the shed for some more rancid tail only to find his living dead girl has escaped her chains. Too late! She attacks and eats poor Nathan.
Best Zombie Death
In the opening scene Matool is engaged in a rather well choreographed fight with a zombie. This isn't one of the stupid/slow ones though, it gets some good punches in. The fight actually lasts a while and to add to the excitement a second zombie, unknown to Matool, is approaching. But Matool finishes off his foe by pinning it down on the hood of a car and driving a nail through it's head with his trusty hammer. Just in time to notice the other zombie closing in!
Memorable Scene
At one point in the film a flashback shows Nathan killing a couple that Dexy wants to swing with. The dead man is discarded, but Nathan keeps the woman chained up in his shed. When Nathan starts to get seriously pissed at all the guys taking turns on his wife he heads out to the shed and gets it on with the zombie girl. Not sure that would be my first course of action - the stench must have been foul!
