NipPierce Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

DubyaHan The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Leofwine_draca I had the misfortune of ordering this one through a mail-order company. At least it was second-hand and it only cost a few quid. The title made it sound good (and I'm a sucker for anything with the word 'dead' in it) and there was even a picture of a guy drinking blood from a bottle on the cover. When I came to watch it though, this scene didn't actually appear in the film, which is a cheapo Filipino horror.THE THIRSTY DEAD is about a woman who gets kidnapped and taken to the jungle by "goons in hooded robes" (that's what it says on the back of the box - I'm being serious here), where she meets a load of people with brown faces who are supposed to be zombies. As the box puts it, "She's terrified of a horrible death at the hands of her capturers." I take it the author's first language wasn't English. The major special effect in this film is, as far as I could understand, a living severed head in a box. Sadly you can't actually see through the red water in the box so the effect is rendered redundant.There is one imaginative scene where a man decays rapidly and turns into a skeleton (rather reminiscent of Lee's Dracula demise though, I feel) but that's nowhere near enough to save the film. This escaped from the Philippines where it only costs a couple of bucks to churn out trash like this. They shouldn't have bothered. Avoid like the plague, unless you want to turn into one of the dead yourself.

dbborroughs Philippines lensed story of four women kidnapped by a group of men in monk's robes and hauled off into the jungle. There they find themselves unwilling guests for a vampiric cult that follows Juan, a living head in a glass jar full of a red liquid. One of the women attracts the attention of one of then men who wants her to stay with him in their underground lair. Will the girls escape? The real question is will the audience remain awake? This is a snoozer of a film where everything is in a pastel color and it all looks like Hollywood sets. The film is okay to start (I like the sewer sets) but once we get into the jungle this film goes into the toilet. Its so dull and ponderous as everyone talks but no one really does anything. To be perfectly honest once you get to a certain point in the film you realize that there is no real danger any reason to watch kind ceases to exist.For insomniacs only

MARIO GAUCI This was included in the "Living Dead" 9-film collection I rented; however, there are no zombies here – and the title itself isn't a reference to anything in particular! The Widescreen print of this one was the best-looking from the four titles I watched – but the same can't be said of the film, which is perhaps the least of them (certainly the campiest, particularly where costumes are concerned)!Starting off with a White Slavery-type plot, it soon falls into formulaic "She" territory – involving a lost civilization who has achieved immortality (presided over by a disembodied living head preserved in a block of ice!). This gives it an old-fashioned air (the film is remarkably chaste) and makes the whole incongruous alongside the permissiveness prevalent in exploitation/horror fare of the time (though, at least, three of its female protagonists look good in skimpy jungle attire).One of the women happens to look just like the painting of a blonde who had appeared to these enlightened people in a vision – so, instead of draining her slowly of blood, they want her to join their fold and be initiated into their lifestyle (which doesn't sit well with one of the girl's companions, a go-go dancer, who would love to exchange places with her…especially since the heroine will have no part of this deal!). A high priest falls for her and, eventually, helps the survivors escape (and liberates the imprisoned old hags, remnants of their 'experiments' over the centuries) – except that, once he gets near to the modern world, starts reverting to his real decrepit age! The film offers no surprises whatsoever but, what really gets it down, is a serious pacing problem – being not so much slow-moving as ineptly-handled, the direction showing a distinct lack of judgment with respect to cutting where it could benefit story and suspense the most! For the record, I followed this with a bunch of trailers included on another disc in the set: I was particularly enticed by the ones for THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES (1968) – for how bad it appears to be, not to mention the momentous pairing of John Carradine and Tura Satana! – and THE CHILD (1977) – yet another EXORCIST clone.

missmonochrome 2 beauty queens, a stewardess and a stripper, are taken hostage to a remote jungle, where they are held by a group of blood drinking immortals.Oddly enough none of our captives seem too worried about it in the first half of the film, blindly following their captors with giggly enthusiasm usually seem in infatuated schoolgirls. Perhaps this is because these mutton dressed as lamb (with the exception of the token Filipino girl, whom actually looks like the young girl she's supposed to be playing)are desperate for attention from any shirtless men they can find, blood drinkers or not.Only after our heroine (who has a face like a badly used cart horse)is anointed as the prophesied queen and begins falling in love with the high priest of the cult and discovers their love for the red stuff does anyone panic.She refuses to join her lover (the living embodiment of Disco Stu, complete with man perm, leisure suit and medallion) in the sanguined feast, pissing off the high priestess in the process. (The priestess' overbite was so severe she could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence, so her being angry and not smiling was a plus) The girls mount a daring escape, with the help of disco stu and one of the drained dry zombies the cult uses as slaves. Stu dies (not so) tragically, the most irritatingly sex starved of our quartet of ladies meets her death in a rat pit, and the remaining 3 escape the jungle and fade back into the (deserved)obscurity they came from.I'm giving this a two for the sheer bravery blended with idiocy of the filmmakers for thinking that a rated PG horror flick was somehow going to become even a mild success.