In a laboratory in Papua New Guinea, an experimental new gas is accidentally released turning the workers there into flesh-craving zombies. An intrepid news reporter arrives with her crew to investigate.

The influence here to Dawn of the Dead is loud and clear. For one, they use parts of Goblin’s iconic score for the soundtrack! But we also get zombie kids, soldiers, the characters learning that they have to ‘shoot ’em in the head’ to kill their carnivorous foes, the unravelling of society as a whole (which resembles politicians arguing with each other in lecture theatres with scattered paper around them to underline the theme of a lack of order)…In the case of Zombie Creeping Flesh we even get a zombie old age pensioner and more graphic and gratuitous female nudity than Romero’s masterpiece.

The gas is actually leaked by a rat in the lab which is killed but then comes back to life and attacks a lab worker by crawling inside his protective suit. This is a great sequence just like a lot of the horror/action sequences are. I’m betting a lot of the film’s budget went on butchers entrials (which is the way it should be for a zombie flick).

Zombie Creeping Flesh is solid enough. The kills are fun and very gory but the sequences in which theres no zombie action kinda drag. Thankfully, these moments are few and far between.

There are far worse zombie films to watch. But, there are also far better which the Goblin score reminds us of.

3 out of 5 stars