Just in time to hit a much needed "misunderstood" chord, Alpha DVD (through oldies.com) has released a new "Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia" entry. The film this time is writer/director/producer Glenn Berggoetz's irreverent "Midget Zombie Takeover".
The film's premise is basic yet engaging, with "older teens" stripping down for some hot-tub fun, only to encounter an attack by zombified, little people dead set on bloodying the deck. (Actually, the kids are forewarned of the predestined doom by an insightful neighbor, but being smart-ass kids, they just shrug it off.) In any event, it seems the wee (though sometimes more-or-less tall) flesheaters manifest due to some ineffable, lunar activity, which won't cease until every last youngster is gobbled up.
Structurally, "Midget Zombie Takeover" is "Night of the Living Dead", though with a sardonic twist. As such, the kids goof around, make love and even theorize on the mini apocalypse's ambiguous hows and whys as they follow their trusty, splattered-bricked road. In other ways, the story plays like a modernization of Jerry Warren's "Teenage Zombies", give or take a plot point or two.
The makeshift mishmash makes Berggoetz's spoof ideal for Mr. Lobo's razor-sharp wit and the show's downsized, wraparound wonderment. The result is one that misunderstood-film fans are destined to devour and will do so with shameless voracity.
Consume a copy today:
https://www.oldies.com/product-view/1145D.html.
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