Todd Sheets forever.

Back in 1992, it didn’t seem like zombies would be coming back from their graves. They weren’t mainstream. It was left to gut crunching gore lovers like Sheets to make low budget tributes to the films they loved. This starts with two gangs — Sheets leads one — fighting in the streets of Kansas City, leaving bodies everywhere. Most gangs would regroup and get better guns. One of these ones gets an occult book, conducts a ritual and all hell breaks loose.

As Glenn would sing, “Yea, evil is as evil does.”

Tommy (Dave Byerly) and Dave (Erin Kehr) barely make it to a bar, years before the Winchester served the same purpose, holed up with their girlfriends while the dead are alive outside the doors. Sheets has said for people to turn this movie off, but look, when everyone is drinking in a bar and a stolen song from The Beyond plays, I stick around. I mean, this starts with a fist fight set to a “Spirit In the Sky” cover and once, I had a girl from Lawrence, KS write out all the lyrics to that song and mail it to me as part of our long distance romance. I wondered if that means anything, like if Norman Greenbaum was from Kansas, but no. Sometimes life makes no sense.

More on Sheets hating this, thanks to IMDB: “It took a year and a half because I was held hostage by an insane cameraman (who thought he was in charge and always wanted more money), a local bar owner named Lonzo who was supposed to be funding the film but disappeared and a cast of well meaning local theater students who went away for the holidays and some of them didn’t come back! Some left because they were tired of being held up for 3 or 4 hours by the jerk cameraman every time we were supposed to shoot. I was left with 68% of a once good script and I finished it the only way I knew. It was my first film. It was NOT shot on VHS — but on 3/4 inch video and Betacam like the TV stations of the time used. It was a horrible experience and I almost never made another film.”

Sheets would make better movies, but look, if you come up with a movie indebted to Mattei, Fulci and Romero, I’m going to love it. Every review I read calling this sloppy and amateurish, well, fine. But did it entertain you? Nobody wants to talk about that, they just want to be high and mighty, cooler than the films they talk about.

If you’re wondering, does this seem like a movie that Visual Vengeance would put out? Well, the trailers are on their latest Blu-rays and it comes from Decrepit Crypt of Nightmares, which also has Suburban Sasquatch amongst its fifty movies for one low price. Some would say you’d overpaid, but I’m the kind of viewer to drop big money on this set if I ever find it.