Wow! How did I miss this one in the 80s? Zombies! Blonde babes! Hunk convicts! A mad scientist! A blonde babe mad scientist! Nudity! Gore! Then there is an astronomical death count. Sadly, many of the blonde babes, especially if they get naked and lathery...will be among the dead. Hey, even better...John Saxon stars in this and directed it. Today we look at a zombie/gangster/prison epic, 1988's "Zombie Death House" (aka "Death House").
Derek (Dennis Cole) is back from Nam...the war! He's also just out of the joint. The only job this hunk can get is to chauffer for crime boss Vic Moretti (Anthony Franciosa). Being a trusting sort, Vic has Derek drive his hot and young blonde GF around, Genelle (Dana Lis Mason). Derek and Genelle will get naked a lot and have a lot of pre-marital sex. When Vic finds out about this he drowns the naked Genelle in the tub and plants her corpse in Derek's motel room. Now Derek is back in the joint...on death row. Also in the joint is Vic's gangster brother, Franco (Michael Pataki). Franco will try to make life difficult for Derek. Uh oh...enter John Saxon as Colonel Burgess. Burgess and the prison doctor have been experimenting with a serum that modifies the behavior of death row inmates. Now Burgess gives the doctor a new serum...one that makes them vicious lunatics.
Yep...things get out of hand. Burgess tricks the original mad scientist, who created the original drug and is now a TV reporterette, to go into the prison and do a story. The reporterette/mad scientist is Tanya (Tana McClure). She'll have topless scenes in this one, just like Genelle. The serum causes a contagious virus and it is out of hand. The inmates have revolted and take prison personnel hostage. Now Col. Burgess sees his experiment is out of hand and figures on blowing up the entire facility. Tanya and Derek team up to quickly find a vaccine and we pray that that lunatic Fauci is nowhere around. The zombie population increases by the minute and Derek and Tanya fight against all odds to get out alive with the few survivors that are left.
Will Derek and Tanya engage in pre-marital sex and if they do will the TV reporterette/mad scientist also get murdered? How does a babe mad scientist become an Emmy winning TV reporterette? Will Col. Burgess' evil intentions compare to the death count inflicted by the CDC and Dr. Fauci? This is a great one. The babe and gore factor are off the charts...and so is the beef factor. For some wild straight-to-video plot, see "Zombie Death House."
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