Better Late Then Never

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

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.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

"Naked Zombie Girl" is a postapocalyptic live action short film from 2014 that was written and directed by Rickey Bird Jr. and the man also plays a supporting character in here. As the title suggests, this is a movie about a female character played by Meghan Chadeayne and she is constantly stuck in small places surrounded by walls or metal and also surrounded by bloodlusty zombies who may have worse things on their minds than most male audience members will when seeing this one. Me not included as the lead actress doesn't do too much for me despite my preference in dark-haired women. The title oh yeah, could it be any more baity? I doubt it. I personally would say that this one is really only worth seeing for the very biggest zombie film fans. The biggest weakness is the story I guess, the plot, as in areas like effects, make-up and action, the film is fairly decent. But to me the plot stands above everything else really and as a consequence, it is a negative deal-breaker unfortunately. So yeah, it may be best to skip it, don't be tricked by the awards attention here into thinking this is a good film. It is not, even if admittedly it is also not a failure. For genre lovers only.

...and then to the scrap heap, this adolescent faux-homage to grindhouse film-making offers nothing in the way of style or substance. The girl is reasonably attractive, though not much of an actor, and yes she gets naked (in thoroughly nonsensical fashion), but the presentation is so purposefully coy that she may as well have stayed in bra and panties, had she worn any in the first place; this vastly overlong gore effects showcase relies on splatter rather than titillation to clumsily earn attention. "Naked Zombie Girl" fails on virtually every level of worthwhile cinema. No script or even story to speak of, nor direction, learners-permit cinematography, poor sound and generally poor lighting---all probable attempts at the aforementioned grindhouse presentation---make "Naked Zombie Girl" a tedious watch for all but the most forgiving of zombie fans. Strictly in-one-eye-and-out-the-other viewing. Caught it no-thanks to Screamfest on YouTube, and grimly regret being suckered by the come-on title. You'll need to endure "Zombie Strippers" again to cleanse your exploitation palate. Not recommended.

There is no other way to describe Naked Zombie Girl other then fun, scary and sexy. Everything about this short is so well done. Great makeup, great special effects, beautiful women, and the acting isn't half bad either. This is feature length quality that you don't see very often in a short film. I think the worst thing about it is that it was never made into a feature length film. It has a real grindhouse feel and great looking zombies. There are so many zombie movies that are professionally made that don't come close to the feel and look of this short. If you like zombies, horror movies and beautiful women, you can't go wrong with this.

With a title like Naked Zombie Girl, you get exactly that, Naked Zombie Girl only she's not a zombie. She is the heroine in this piece and much like Buffy Sommers from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the main character slays zombies while naked. It's a strangely nice twist as so far as to say that the naked stuff becomes a non issue when she is slaying the zombies. In fact, she too seems to accept the inevitable when she drops her towel in the last scene to fight the zombies. Even the truck driver seems to accept her abilities by fighting naked. I don't know if they will make this into a feature but that premise of her having to fight naked is her super power. Sure, she wears clothes normally but when it comes time to fight the zombies, it's time to get naked. And kudos to the makeup artist who did the zombies. It was some nice work, really nice work. The acting could have been better with the people in the car but that's 3 points off for that. This can easily be a cult classic just on the film short alone. And if true, the $17,000 budget was well spent.