The Age of Commercialism

Highly Overrated But Still Good

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Being a glutton for punishment (apparently) I still find myself sitting down to watch Asylum movies from time to time. I know it's a mistake. I know it won't be good. I guess I just have to see if it's at least not as bad as the last one. The problem is that it's usually just as bad or worse. Such is the case with Death Valley (and yes, I'm not going for the full title...this movie doesn't deserve it).A big reason I popped this in my DVD player is that on the back of the box it proudly proclaims the movie to be "One of the best zombie movies in the last 10 years!" and I had to know exactly how wrong that was. It's so wrong, in fact, that it would be hilarious if it weren't so bad. The quote isn't even attributed to anyone if that gives you any idea what a load of BS it is.The movie itself has decent production values for a modern zombie movie (which is actually a bit surprising) but it's the same old pseudo-western-meets-zombies-in-a-possibly-parallel-dimension story. Wait...have we seen that before? Even if the answer is no, you'll feel like you've seen this a thousand times before. I particularly enjoyed the fact that whenever someone talks more about the legend of Bloody Bill the whole tone of the dialog changes and they start using words and phrases normal people don't use in everyday conversation to make it sound more dramatic.I guess you could watch this as an alternative to a root canal...but that's even a bit of a toss up. There's a lot of much more capable zombie movies out there that do way more for way less. Save yourself the time and the desire to pour rubbing alcohol into your eyes.

there are few zombie films that are very well ... good.i mean i love zombies...in fact (as my friends say) i am obsessed with them. yes its sad to say i agree ... any way i read the synopsis of death valley and thought what the hell it sounded fine. so you know i stayed up to watch it and i have to say i was right to.i thought the acting was pretty cool. the opening scene is a great way to introduce the film, its not confusing (until you've watched the whole scene that is) and the film has the same sort of premise from there on.as i have mentioned the ending is great... it isn't very believable ... at all. why would bloody bill believe that gwen was his sister and the fact that they look XACTLY like each other isn't very plausible either, and it would have been nice to find out what happened to gwen after she left death valley.i hope their isn't a sequel as zombie sequels are never good apart from resident evil of course.all in all, apart from the disappointing ending, death valley is a great film and definitely worth a watch if your like me and love zombie flick

Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill starts as five college kids, Gwen (Chelsea Jean), Mandy (Denise Boutte), Sondra (Kandis Erickson), Jerry (Matt Marraccini) & Buck (Steve Glinn) plus they're teacher Avery (Scott Carson) set off across country to Phoenix. En-route they are taken hostage by a drug dealer named Earl (Gregory Bastien) who is looking for his fellow drug dealer Darrel (Dean N. Arevalo) whom he thinks has ripped him off. They find Darrel's car & follow the road to a old town called Sunset Valley where they find Darrel injured & covered in blood, he warns them to leave but before they can they are all attacked by a horde of flesh eating zombies lead by evil Confederate soldier William Anderson AKA Bloody Bill (Jeremy Bouvet) who has placed a curse on the town & it's residents for his & his sister's executions centuries ago. It's either the flesh eating zombies or the kids & it's a fight to the death...Photographed & directed by Byron Werner I thought Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill was an OK low budget zombie film. The script moves along at a fair pace & entertains on a basic level. It isn't anywhere near the likes of Night of the Living dead (1968) or Dawn of the Dead (1978) in terms of quality but it does it's best. The character's are the typical bunch of stranded would-be victims as they eventually start to argue & bicker at each other as the situation becomes ever worse & their number begins to dwindle. Of course you don't really go into a film such as this expecting high art or a meaningful story which is just as well because this definitely isn't high art & certainly doesn't have a meaningful story. Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill is one of those films that if you turn your brain off, can ignore a few rough edges & don't set your expectations too high can be enjoyed in a dumb mindless sort of way. It ain't exactly brilliant but it ain't too bad either.Director Werner tries all the flashy & somewhat annoying editing tricks there is, bleached colours, slow-mo, fast-mo, frame skipping & quick cuts. The special effects aren't that great but I've seen worse, there's no real scares, tension or atmosphere probably because it's set entirely during the day which doesn't help the ambiance, does it? One aspect of Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill that I hated was the music, it was absolutely awful & there were times that I pressed mute on my TV remote control because it was giving me a headache. There is also a stupid bit with a grenade, I mean that grenade would have done more damage than cause a bit of smoke, I mean it was a wooden house it would have set in on fire at least, wouldn't it? The gore is tame & lacking, there's a couple of flesh eating scenes, there's a decapitated zombie head & a few gun shot wounds, I was pretty disappointed with the gore levels here to be honest.Technically Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill is OK, it's nothing special but considering the low budget it could have been worse. It looks like it was shot on a digital camcorder like a lot of low budget horror films are these days, personally I really don't like how these digitally shot films look & I much prefer proper good old fashioned film. The acting sucked, but then what did you expect?Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill is an average low budget horror film that isn't exactly spectacular but it's sort of watchable in it's own crap way, I doubt I'll ever want to see it again though. Worth a watch if your bored & have lots (& I mean lots) of love for the horror genre.

So add badly done zombies, a villain taken from the old "House" movies, and cookie-cutter characters. What do you get??? A flick that makes "House of the Dead" look like an art-house film.... First off, there is very little connection between the opening scene. The acting was, of course, horrible. There was the science chick who kept looking for a logical explanation to why her friends were being eaten. There was the redneck. The pretty girl who lives just long enough (but no nudity to make it worthwhile). It looks like the budget was so low, they filmed it during one afternoon. Finally, there is a hybrid scene that combines elements from Scarface and Silence of the Lambs. Unfortunately it was sewn together with a safety pin. A high school film club would be ashamed of this dog.