It's never a good sign when a film's origin story involves the development of 20 minutes of random footage into a full-length feature. 1985's "Hard Rock Zombies" was never meant to be seen in the traditional sense, originally created for use as a background visual in the little seen "American Drive-In," but director Krishna Shah had a change of heart, looking to join the horror gold rush of the 1980s with his own offering of MTV visuals and cartoonish violence involving the undead and, well, Nazis. He doesn't exactly have an idea of what he wants to do with "Hard Rock Zombies," but Shah is doing it anyways, coming up with a barely coherent comedy that delivers a few gore zone visits and plenty of musical performances, turning this endeavor into a particularly dark and unfunny episode of "The Monkees." Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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