Meat Market
Meat Market
| 06 December 2000 (USA)
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Animals attacks, says the TV news. But two ex-security agents know the real cause - maybe the real culprits. Shahrokh and Argenta are former employees of a company they knew to be conducting bizarre medical experiments. What has resulted are not animals attacks, but attacks by humans turned into vicious, decomposing, cannibalistic zombies. Their efforts to stem the violence in vain, hunted by the authorities, Shahrokh and Argenta escape the city just as it is engulfed in chaos. Their only hope lies in finding and organizing the few remaining survivors. What they find - three women claiming to be vampires with high-tech weaponry, a deranged and washed-up Mexican wrestler, a wounded soldier, and a scientist who may know more than he lets on - offer more questions than answers. Can this tiny cadre hope to defeat an army of the undead? And if they succeed...will there be anyone left alive?

Reviews
Supelice Dreadfully Boring
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Uriah43 After a medical experiment goes haywire, zombies are created and soon wreak havoc on the human populace. Most of the population are unable to deal with the situation and within only a few weeks are either consumed or turned into zombies themselves. However, one young man named "Shahrokh" (Paul Pedrosa) and a woman by the name of "Argenta" (Claire Westby) team up and manage to survive by scavenging what they need and finding a secure place to hide out. Then one day they meet up with three young ladies who have also managed to survive but as it turns out aren't what they appear to be. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this movie had potential as most of the actors seemed adequate for the task at hand. Unfortunately, rather than empowering them with a good script and the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities, the director (Brian Clement) chose to focus on poorly-developed action scenes, bad makeup and a plethora of cheap special effects. The decision to include a Mexican wrestler named "El Diablo Azul" (Cam Pipes) for comedic value was especially awful. Likewise, there were a couple of sex scenes which may have crossed the line into X-rated territory. Not that any of them were all that interesting or erotic. Again, this movie had potential but the wandering plot, bad dialogue and the inability of the director to play to his strengths and minimize his weaknesses doomed this movie from the very beginning. Because of that I have rated this film accordingly. Bad.
meistershane What the people behind this movie didn't "get" was the ONE simple rule of low budget film making. They tried to do too much with too little. If you have a shoe-string budget, cut out the stuff that won't work on a shoe string budget. Keep it simple. Otherwise you end up with something like this. The lighting, acting, sound, and special effects are all really terrible. I am talking about a complete disregard for any lighting in each scene. The actors' timing is completely off. Their lines do not flow at all. It is painful. I don't want to rain on anyone's parade. Making a film is hard, but I think their ambition hindered their better judgement. Seriously, though, do NOT buy this movie. Do not rent it (I doubt anyone carries it). Consider yourself warned. It is not watchable. Period. Like I said, NO REDEEMING QUALITIES.
dfolt Where do you start with something this terrible? Shooting on video is always a good sign of the badness to follow. Why do these 'home movie' enthusiasts never, ever get real actors? Most struggling actors will work for free and they will do a much better job than the producer's buddy. The only entertainment in this is just how bad the sound and editing are. The sounds of 'eating' were added whenever a zombie attacked, but it sounded like they had swallowed the mic. My favorite sound was the audible friction created by the plastic pants on the thunder-thighed lesbo vampires...embarrassing all around. And why wouldn't you (I guess I'm talking to the makers of this) at least read a book on how to write screenplays because there was no discernible story or ending! And, finally, for god's sake spend the money on film school…if you went then go again and pay attention this time!
darkcrow14 If you are a fan of action, horror, and especially zombie films, check out both Meat Market and its sequel, MM2! Made on shoestring budgets, these feature length films are loaded with action, more zombies then you can shake a stick at, and best of all, look good and are thoroughly entertaining! Brian Clement is destined for greatness, watching his first few films makes me remember watching a once-unknown Peter Jacksons "Dead Alive" and thinking the same thing, destined for greatness....when the day come that Brian makes his "Lord of the Rings", I'll still remember these first films of his fondly, just like I do Jacksons!