July 14-20  Vanity Project Week: “…it might be said that the specific remedy for vanity is laughter, and that the one failing that is essentially laughter is vanity.” Are these products of passionate and industrious independent filmmakers OR outrageous glimpses into the inner workings of self-obsessed maniacs??

Directed, written by and starring Rusty Nails, this starts with siblings Franny (Tracey Hayes) and Zoe (Nails) drinking tap water that causes giant zits to form on the tops of their heads. And if they don’t keep eating junk food, they become zombies. And oh yeah, those zits are constantly spraying people and making even more potential zombies, all because big business and the military-industrial complex spiked the town’s water.

The thing is, the kids are really alright. Sure, they have zit heads, but all they want to do is go to the mall or bowling. They didn’t ask for this.

I kind of love the one tough girl who keeps busting her boyfriend’s balls about him going bald. That’s the kind of playful banter that makes me marry someone.

Oh yeah — the movie.

It’s a 50s science-gone-wrong movie that somehow has disgusting moments of exploding zits and eating anything greasy, but has such a goofy and sweet heart that it feels like it struggles to find an audience. It’s too gross for normal people, not twisted enough for gore hounds. And man, the music is pretty great, but I was also the right age in the 90s to know most of it.

You can download this from the Internet Archive.