Episode 246: Barbie and Kendra Meet the Corona Zombies

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This is all on Professor Kyle Bishop. Remember in the episode 245 when he said this… And yes this is me repurposed material with is very apropos

"I've got to say the worst one I've seen that I recall with any sense of vividly is Corona Zombies. which of course was produced during the initial lockdown, and so they were severely limited in their abilities to produce what they produced. But it is really bottom-of-the-barrel filmmaking. Now, the only reason it has any redemptive qualities is I think that their repurposing of other zombie films with new humorous dubbing is... at times effective, especially if your sense of humor is not particularly sophisticated."

Well, that and the fact In The Flesh Season 2 is 6 hour long episodes I thought I would take a break from it for an hour and watch Corona Zombies, or as we call it in the UK

Barbie and Kendra meet the Corona Zombies 2024

The blurb

Before they saved the Tiger King, stormed Area 51 and crashes Joe Bobs Drive-in, ditzy Barbie and her pal Kendra's first fandango was this prime piece of absurdity. Part irreverent satire, part gonzo Italian zombie remix, all full moon mania, Barbie and Kendra meet the Corona Zombies will have you smiling so wide you'll split your mask-strings.

It stars Cody Renee Cameron and Robin Sydney and scores 2.5/10 on IMDB

Stuart Heritage of The Guardian called the film "the sort of thing you'd watch drunk in your house at midnight. But then again, that's how you're going to watch all films for the foreseeable future, so it has to be worth a go."

And wow that was awful but... inventive

So many questions. So kendra was just a voice the movie? Barbie showers in her clothes? But mostly the question I have is why? But I get it, and I need to give them an extra mark for being inventive. Clearly barbie and the zombie could film together during covid. Kendra was just on the phone and the rest was redubbed stripper v zombies and zombies creeping flesh

Actually just dubbing over old films is much better entertainment. Kev and Nick, who played the zombie twins in shaun of the dead always loved it as a method of entertainment, hence their redubbing of the Battlestar Galactica movie Cylon Invasion of Earth, dubbed with all the cylons and gay yorkshiremen. The zombie strippers and barbie and kendra part was just weak.

Ok so lets compare it to the bottom of the bottom of the barrel

Where does this one float in a toilet bowl that includes:

Attack of the Flatulating dead

Zombie with a shotgun

Transit 17

Oasis of the zombies?

Hm, it was better than Oasis of the Zombies, that also repurposed bad Italian war movie footage.

It is actually better than Attack of the Flatulating Dead, that similarly had budget constraints.

And it was funny in places, so has to be higher than the other two… so I am going to give it a remarkable 2/10

Not the worst, but it was pretty bad.