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Yee-haw! It's Redneck Zombies, otherwise known as Non-living Entities From Areas of Sparse Populations Predominantly in the Southern United States with a Proclivity for Dining Upon Human Tissue.

This little gem is distributed by Troma, the most holy of film companies in the entire universe and responsible for such masterpieces as The Toxic Avenger, Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D., and Class of Nukem High.

Redneck Zombies is, according to Troma, the first film to be distributed on video that was actually shot in video instead of celluloid. It's also the first film to feature zombie rednecks as opposed to rednecks shooting zombies.

There's a few running gags throughout the film that provide a lot of stupid enjoyment such as the fact that the characters are constantly wearing T-shirts with messages written upon them such as "Live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse."

Another good gag is the silent guy who hangs around with the campers never saying a word but always drinking from an everlasting bottle of whiskey.

The film begins with a dialogue recounting the disappearance of a barrel of toxic waste. It is said that this one lone barrel could spell the end of the human race if something bad happens to it.

We then go to a mental hospital, where one patient is sitting in the "Quiet Room" in a catatonic state. She's having flashbacks of redneck zombies devouring all her friends, which is something that probably would make you quiet for a while.

Remember that missing barrel? For such an important barrel, the military doesn't spend many resources transporting it, leaving that job to one lone black guy carrying it on the back of a jeep as he drives through redneck country. He gazes lovingly into the camera and recounts the history of the barrel and how he's had to transport it to so many places.

Is he talking to us? No, he's talking to his awesome dog who is wearing sunglasses. While attempting to let his dog take a drag off of his cigarette, he swerves the jeep and the barrel rolls off of it and down a hill. He chases after it but after he catches up to it he finds himself at the end of a fat redneck's shotgun.

This redneck is marshmallow to the point of looking like those obese kids on Maury. He wants the black man off his property immediately and the black man is happy to oblige after he the redneck takes a shot or two.

Fat boy relishes his new find but his joy is short lived as a new family of rednecks wanders onto the scene with guns raised. It seems that fat boy went and shot up this family's still and must pay the price, but he offers the barrel as a replacement still.

Since no one can read the "Radioactive" warnings on the side of the barrel, the family accepts it and rolls the barrel to their moon shining clearing.

The father of the clan gets his young'ins to crack open the barrel, which results in the green toxic waste spilling everywhere. Some of it spills into the corn mash which means it's going into the moonshine.

What fate will befall the charming rednecks who drink this brew? As they're working on making their moonshine, the boys hear the familiar sound of a frying pan being clanged. IT'S THE TOBACCO MAN!

They run out to buy some dip from the charming fellow who wears a giant sack over his head and has horrendous burn marks on all visible flesh on his body. He sells the boys some tobacco and then becomes practically demonic, telling the boys that they LOVE his dip and will never be able to stop using it, even when they grow old and their teeth begin to fall out and their gums bleed and they go to fancy city doctors.

They'll have his dip in their mouths even when they're buried in their coffins. Man, these TRUTH people are really going to extreme measures here.

Meanwhile back at army HQ, a super overacting sergeant chews out the black man for losing the barrel. He DEMANDS that the barrel be recovered and says that the full use of all military personnel has been licensed to do so. If it was that important, maybe you should have had all those people transporting it in the first place.

Another subplot of note is a group of campers arriving at their fancy campsite where they promptly piss in the pond. The members of this group include their redneck guide, a gay guy who acts straight, a girl who farted once, and the black dude and his girlfriend. The black dude is a very smooth fellow who uses logic and science to convince his girl to swallow his semen. He is an idol for all.

The moonshine has been completed and it's Ellie May's turn to deliver it. Mind you Ellie May is a guy who just prefers to act like a fairy. He gets into the fancy pickup truck and goes to deliver jars of radioactive green moonshine to all.

His first delivery is a redneck twosome just sitting around watching titties on TV. While he's delivering, the rest of his family is drinking the leftover bottles of the stuff. It tastes like fire and it isn't long before they start tripping. This is conveyed through the use of every 80s video effect available, such as a negative image, spinning image, and random colors all over the place image. This "tripping" scene goes on for quite a long time.

At the same time, another tripping scene is going on back at the campsite where the campers are smoking some grass. Eventually the rednecks begin to vomit blood, grow lots of boils, emit steam, and all that good stuff. The zombie transformation is complete.

In the morning, one of the campers wanders off into the woods to take a shit but finds herself by the still. A redneck zombie comes up from behind her and rips off the top of her skull, exposing her brains and then consuming them.

The black girl camper comes to investigate and finds nothing left of her friend but a pair of legs and some entrails. She flees into a cornfield where she runs into the marshmallow redneck. He lays the seeds of a potential raping when the redneck zombie catches up to her.

Not wanting to come between a zombie and his woman, marshmallow pushes the girl back into the arms of the redneck who takes a bite out of crime, and her neck. Marshmallow flees back to the still site where he finds some of the moonshine and the legs of the zombie's former victim. After briefly contemplating fucking what's left of the victim's lower torso, he drinks some of the moonshine.

The rest of the campers awake and go in search of their missing comrades. They stumble upon the remains of the black girl and what follows is some of the best "distraught" acting ever captured on video. The black boyfriend is the greatest of the bunch, squeaking out "WE GOTTA BURY TERESA!" like a slightly retarded four year old.

The fat chick that farts goes equally crazy and begins shouting in a high pitched pig squeal. It ends with these two in each others arms shaking like they drank a whole case of JOLT cola. They continue on their trek and ultimately find the remains of the other dead girl by the still.

The black guy is so freaked out that he tries to drink some of the moonshine but the gay guy who acts straight stops him. This guy is the resident horror movie super genius that somehow finds out the entire plot by looking at a few scant details. In this case, he sees the radioactive drum and immediately figures out that some of the waste got into the moonshine and made the rednecks into crazy monsters that eat people.

He then describes the brew as a "monster mash" and the audience groans. The black guy's response to this is to squeal and bite his fingernails. Bravery in the face of danger if there ever was any. Everyone at camp starts to flip out until the fart chick goes off the deep end and starts yelling at everyone to put the gay guy who acts straight in charge.

Silent whiskey guy responds to this by flipping her off. Her plan soon fucks up as the redneck zombie returns and eats the gay guy whose shirt changes from "Same shit different day" to "Shit fuck piss damn hell" when he's being eaten. Before he dies he manages to spray the zombie with deodorant, giving the rest of his gang enough time to decapitate him with a shovel. They decide to go to a nearby mineshaft and drag the zombie corpse there.

The black man has gone completely insane by this point and thinks he's Dorothy, calling the dead zombie "Toto." Remember kids, in a zombie movie a black man is either a super badass or a super insane pussy, never in between.

The military is coming back as a powerful threesome. Now it's the black guy, a flagrantly gay guy, and some generic army dude. Every time the gay guy says anything to the black man, the black man's response is "FUCK YOU." It's a lot funnier in action.

Back in the mine shaft, the black guy reveals that he took a bunch of acid this morning and is still tripping. The film makers bust out the crazy video effects to show him tripping while the rest of his crew yells at him. At this point it's hard to tell whether or not you're watching Redneck Zombies or a DEVO video.

Since the black guy is pre-vet, the others force him to conduct a zombie autopsy. Because he's "TOTALLY TRIPPIN ON ACID YO," his eyes plays tricks on him and he mistakes various body parts for pieces of corn, a shoe, and an empty bear can. Ultimately he sticks his head inside the zombie because "it's as big as an amusement park in here" and starts pointing out all the rides and attractions before finally stopping and throwing up.

After a while he concludes that the cause of death for the zombie was the deodorant that the gay guy sprayed him with. The deodorant dries up the zombies and kills them, so all the good guys arm themselves with it. Meanwhile, the army crew's tire blows out and they get stuck.

A zombie wanders towards them and the generic army dude goes over to kick his ass but instead gets his throat ripped out. Tons of zombies emerge from the woods and start towards the jeep. "BALLS!" exclaims the black guy and he runs back to the jeep.

The gay army dude gets excited because he thinks the rednecks are going to recreate Deliverance and rape him, so he runs over to them. He asks "Watersports, anyone?" before getting mauled by zombies. He probably ended up pissing his pants so at least he got what he wanted. The black dude lets out one final "FUCK YOU, STILL!" at the dead gay guy and takes off.


SPEAK TO ME WARRIORS!

The black guy doesn't make it very far as he runs into marshmallow zombie who promptly squeezes his head until it pops. The zombies swarm around the campers and a fierce battle begins. The redneck guide is the first to go as he gets swamped by zombies while saving the fat bitch that farts. They pull him apart at the waist and a few zombies drag the torso off to enjoy by themselves in the woods.

The silent whiskey drinker pushes the black guy into a group of zombies but he tricks them by acting like a zombie. The zombies go on and eat the silent guy, but the black guy ruins his disguise by throwing up, so the zombies eat him too. The only one left is fart girl, who freaks out and runs into the woods.

She wanders into the shack of the zombie family from the beginning of the movie and manages to take them out by pouring boiling water on them, shooting them, decapitating them, and sticking a spoon into their foreheads. She runs outside to a cornfield where she gets accosted by marshmallow zombie. He has something other than eating brains on the mind - raping her.

There's no zombie rape whistle handy so she makes do by sticking a corn cob into his ear. She continues her flight but ultimately collapses at the feet of THE TOBACCO MAN! He promises to take good care of her and off she goes to the insane asylum, where we get a momentary x-ray shot that shows the audience that she's got a zombie fetus inside of her!

I never tire of zombie fetuses. The camera pans to the cell next door which contains...silent whiskey guy! He lives, although minus an arm and a leg.

He's just chilling, drinking whiskey with one hand and reading Fangoria with his foot. Truly the hero of the film. He shrugs his shoulders and the film ends.

Redneck Zombies is a cheesy film, but not in an unintentional way. It's one of those films that strives to provide the utmost excellence in every type of cheese imaginable and just plain revels in it. Basically, it's like almost every Troma produced/distributed movie out there.

You'd have to be pretty fucking jaded not to at least crack a smile at numerous points in this film, whether it be the flagrantly bad acting, the retarded sight gags, or the "redneck zombies" country songs that are sung at different points throughout the movie. Whether you're a fan of zombie films or cheese cinema, you owe it to yourself to see this one.

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