"OH MY GOD! THERE'S CURLING IRONS EVERYWHERE!"
It's Troma time in the Halloween Countdown! First things first. I've seen a couple write-ups about this movie which calls it an anthology film. It is certainly NOT an anthology film anymore than PULP FICTION is an anthology film. The film starts in a Doomsday County college dorm where the students are having a pizza delivered; despite it being against the rules to bring outside food onto campus. The pizza delivery guy is shortly leapt upon by the students who are actually vampires. That explains their pizza order of "Hold the garlic". We next switch to a film class who are making a zombie film on the campus soundstage. Immediately after being warned that the Xenon bulbs used in the studio lighting are explosive and contain a toxic gas, a dopey lighting student drops the bulb, it smashes, and everyone turns into melty-faced zombies. Soon, all of Doomsday County is besieged by zombies (or 'xenombies' as they're dubbed). College professor Eddie Tapia goes from teaching the film class to weaponing-up and taking out some zombies! All this is the fiendish plot of the evil genius melty-faced scientist Dr. Mongoo!
Out on their rounds, police officers Montgomery Kilgore and P.T. Chops encounter and fight a passel of xenombies themselves and follow the homicidal monsters to the lair of Dr. Mongoo himself. If it so happens that Dr. Mongoo's xenombie plot gets foiled, he has another up his sleeve: teaming up with an alien invasion force to conquer Doomsday County! The nasty green aliens set about taking people over and zapping their ray guns. The government elists the aid of rock star/secret agent Betty Beretta to save the day! Betty is always there when her country and the world is in need. When things get really sticky for Betty, she is joined in the fight by Prof. Eddie Tapia, officers Montgomery & Chops and the vampire student buds. The alien invasion is thwarted and all is right with the world. Or is it?!?!?!?!
DOOMSDAY COUNTY is a typical Troma rollicking hoot with wacky aliens and wacky heroes and wacky situations to provide a wacky time. If you're not in a wacky mood, you'll probably think it ain't great. But it is a lot of fun and somehow manages to feature mostly terrific performances especially by Tara Lightfoot as the wise-cracking Betty Beretta and Paul Alessi & Michael Santi as the cop team I want to see a TV series built around: Chops & Montgomery! John Archer Lundgren as the melty-faced evil genius Dr. Mongoo is wonderful and give the Doc a vocal delivery which has to be heard to be believed! THe make-up & special effects, for a Troma release, are very good with flying saucers inspired by EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. This movie is just so much fun that you'd have to be a crotchedy old fart not to enjoy it!
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