Hey everyone… Jonathan Moody back again to discuss another one of the awesome movies we did for Indie Film Cafe. This is continuing Season 7. And we just recorded Season 9 so we gotta catch up! Whose fault is that? Yep, mine! Anyhoo… it doesn’t matter cause here we are. We are going to be discussing the 2014 film Zombie Pirates, a movie that I had seen years ago and absolutely enjoyed so I felt like this was the perfect movie for Paul Presenza and special guest Nicole H Sixx. This was her first episode (but not only… she did come back for one more movie. Maybe we can get her again for Season 9!)
To begin with this is a Steve Sessions movie. Steve is a really fun filmmaker with a creative streak. One of the ones we will be doing in the studio at some point of his is called Dead Clowns; Dead Clowns and Zombie Pirates are actually kind of similar in ways – I mean to be honest if you like Zombies and you like Pirates, Zombie Pirates might just be for you. I mean it’s really that simple. It reminds me a lot of John Carpenter’s The Fog but a bit of a different story.
So let’s get in to it… what is Zombie Pirates about.
From IMDB:
“A dangerous young woman offers up human sacrifices to a ghost ship of the dead in return for an ancient treasure. When she comes up one sacrifice short, her zombie masters exact their bloody revenge in this gory tribute to Spain’s popular Blind Dead Euro Horror Series.”
That pretty much explains it. The story isn’t really hard to follow. There’s a couple other characters including the sacrifices that you get to follow but really it’s about the woman and the zombie pirates.
Who plays the woman… well that would be the incredible Sarah French. She’s known for the movies like: Blind, Bearry, and Bridge of the Doomed. We love her here at Indie Film Cafe. Even though she’s probably not happy a lot of times with some of the choices we pick for her for Indie Film Cafe reviews. Another actor I really enjoyed in this is J.C. Pennylegion…. How freaking cool is that name! His other credit is Steve Session’s film, “Aberrations”. And we can’t forget Eric Spudic. He plays the main pirate… Captain Lassard. And he’s also a great friend; he use to come to my house in California and watch indie films with me… sometimes Steve Session movies.
This is the part where I would generally tell about all the people involved in the film but honestly there wasn’t much behind the scenes I could see. Steve Sessions directed, wrote, shot, edited and composed. It was also produced by Sarah French and Eric Spudic. And executive produced by Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Scalps, The Alien Dead) as part of his Retromedia Entertainment company! So cool to see Fred’s name pop up on any of our indie films we choose! His company even did the opening titles. Having his name on your production really helps.
I really enjoyed watching this film. The one thing I really love is movies set either on the beach or on the high seas. I love pirate movies of all kinds and I love beachside movies. I don’t know why considering I’d never want to be a pirate for real but I would love to make a pirate movie. Or just be around that lifestyle. Like I said you could tell this was very much inspired by movies like The Fog. Which both have a lighthouse. Another thing I enjoy seeing in movies are lighthouses. One day I will be sure to put one in one of my flicks.
However as much as I enjoy movies like this there were problems and we discuss the problems in the show so please be sure to check out this latest episode if you haven’t already and see what everyone thought. But here is the Stinkometer if you want to skip ahead:
So for this Stinkometer score I did give it a 6: I still highly enjoy the film and will watch it. There are a lot of movies I’ve given a 6 too that I will still be excited to watch over and over again, and show other people too. Paul gave it a 6.5. He still enjoyed it and he loves Steve Sessions films just as much as I do. He was happy to watch this one. And Nicole was the nicest on the scores. Even though she agreed with the problems she still thought it should be lowered and gave it a 4. Giving it a nice 16.5. That’s pretty low for Indie Film Cafe. That score puts it up there with Knights Of The City. Not very surprising. But I am happy it got a pretty low score. That’s what it deserved.
Well there ya have it. Finally the second episode of the season in the can! We’ll be back with more coming very soon. Paul will be next to discuss his first film of 2007. Until then though Paul will tell you all how you can find this movie and anything else he’d add… Take it away, MooCow…
Moo everyone! Well, you can check out the trailer HERE. And if yer low on doubloons you can catch it for free on TUBI. You can also stream it on PRIME. You can buy the DVD from Uncle Amazon, WallyWorld, and from the re-sale market on EBAY. You can download a digital version of the poster from Movieposterdb.com. There doesn’t seem to be any udder merch out there, but you can check out moovie reviews for the film at Adam the Movie God, Movies and Mania, and Exploitation Retrospect, as well as video reviews at Fright Bounce, Villain News, and Goof Podcast.
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