Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Lollivan 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.

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Leofwine_draca More sub-par NIGHT OF THE LIVING shenanigans are here in this shot-in-Pennysylvania effort, strictly amateurish from beginning to end and yet not without a certain charm. This is a virtually plot less affair, involving a group of hippies who are sprayed with experimental herbicide and turn into weapon-wielding zombies, although it has to be said that there are very atypical zombies as they resemble nothing more than stoned students wandering around in the woods. Astonishingly, this is a film which gained a certain notoriety thanks to its brief appearance on the video nasties list, this is incredible when watching a relatively tame film when compared to the likes of Fulci's ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS or the myriad other video nasties around at the time.The entire film takes place in the woods and it has to be said that the location is the best aspect of the film, lending the movie a natural atmosphere which even the occasionally sloppy camera-work can't hide. The cast is a largely interchangeable bunch of hippies, government agents and holidaying families, with plenty of chasing about and action interspersed with some laughable gore segments; a man's hand is cut off, a severed leg is found in the wood, some entrails leak from a torn stomach. The special effects are laughably bad, so cheap that they even use those joke-shop plastic flies at one point, sticking them to a wound. The "zombies" just appear to have putty stuck to their faces so don't go expecting any Dick Smith-style gruesomeness here.The wooden lead is played by Charles McCrann, actually Charles Austin, who also acted as director, writer, and producer. In retrospect his action-man persona is lent a touch of poignancy, in the discovery that he was killed in the 9/11 Al Quaeda attack on the Twin Towers. FOREST OF FEAR is Austin's baby and it isn't that bad, certainly more atmospheric than the other amateur efforts of the '80s and '90s, like ZOMBIE NOSH for instance. The unknown Beverly Shapiro is mildly attractive as the heroine, whilst Romero regular John Amplas pops up as a corrupt government official. However, it's the supporting characters who are the most hilarious; Dennis Helfend, who plays a paranoid hermit living out in the woods, steals the show with his fleshy, edgy performance, whilst the acting of the lad playing the boy also gets a few laughs. In the end, FOREST OF FEAR is pretty much interchangeable with the other cheap horror efforts coming from America between 1980 and 1983, but it retains a few moments of interest to make it worth a look for kindly fans.

lastliberal One of the infamous video nasties that were banned in Britain, this one known as Forest of Fear, is still banned. It was released on video in the US as Toxic Zombies, and is also known as Blood Butchers. With all these names changes, maybe they can sneak it past the British Film Board.It is a typical zombie movie. The government sprays some unapproved substance (DROMAX) on marijuana fields on government land, and it turns the pot growers into zombies. They start killing their friends that didn't get infected, then move to campers in the woods.Lots of blood and body parts, but only one gratuitous nude scene (Debbie Link) before the whole thing starts as one pot grower is bathing out of a pail.Cameo by John Amplas (Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Knightriders).For zombie completists.

Dan Forest Of Fear is a terrible film, I have seen it and I still feel sorry for doing that. It's can easily be a part of the worst movies of all times in my opinion. Forest Of Fear is a very low budget film, not that it bothers me, I love low budget/no budget movies, but Forest Of Fear is just awful beyond words. The zombies are pathetic as hell, the characters' dialogue bores so much that you feel like breaking your TV our of anger. The effects are lame, and everything else is just so bad that you want to burn the video shop that has given you the film. I can only recommend this film to people who truly hate themselves or just people that should be executed just for liking horrible movies like forest of fear. If you can find this rare and horrible film, just BURN it. Only by burning it, won't innocent people suffer as much as I have.

HumanoidOfFlesh The DEA spray a bunch of marijuana growing hippies with an experimental crop killing spray and they turn into bloodthirsty zombies who roam the countryside chewing people up.Charles McCrann's "Bloodeaters" is a low budget zombie film which was amazingly banned as video nasty in the UK.Of course there is some gore,but nothing really shocking or disturbing.The acting is pretty bad,but it's nice to see John Amplas in a small role as one of the hippies.Check it out,especially if you like zombie films.