Ozone

I am a great fan of early J. R. Bookwalter films. Movies like "Chickboxer" and "Galaxy of the Dinosaurs" illustrate what cinematic cheese is really all about. "Ozone" is a much more mature film, with a somewhat grander scope (and budget) than his earlier movies, and although it has better production values, I find it less fulfilling. The film is a relatively standard dark drug film, filled with evil and gross characters and special effects, which range from relatively laughable to fairly disturbing. James Black and Tom Hoover are in good form as actors here, although James L. Edwards is perhaps not quite in the same league as "The Drug Lord."Generally, the film is a modestly effective horror flick, a genre that is not one of my favorites, admittedly. It isn't as scary as some big-budget horror movies, and it certainly isn't as fun as the earlier Bookwalter fare, so it left me a bit unsatisfied. I suspect that horror and gore fans will find "Ozone" satisfactory, and people who are fans of the film will love the packaging which features loads of extras including commentary and "making of" shorts.

this video shows what can be done with a little money and a lot of jr should be doing bigger films by now but being in the uk we are always the last to see or hear anything so if u know anything about jrs work let me know this video should be seen by just about anyone who likes sifi or horror and is well worth the money

J.R. Bookwalter is by far the greatest filmmaker of all time! All of his films are great and you should give each of them a look!

Great little B movie, but the picture quality is Terrible.Why even put it on Blu-ray?For a $24 movie on Blu-ray, no enhancements done to film. I expect a Blu-ray disc to have a nice picture and audio quality. Definitely Not here, sorry to say.

Ozone (J. R. Bookwalter, 1993)Recently, I've seen a good number of amateur horror flicks. The majority of them are worthless. The one thing I can say in Ozone's favor is that everyone involved was very enthusiastic about the project; sometimes that's enough to distinguish it from the pack.Bookwalter (The Dead Next Door), who got his start as an extra in George Romero's Day of the Dead, keeps the zombies coming. In this case, they're being created by a drug called ozone (thus the movie's title). Eddie Boone (James Black of The P.J.s), a rogue detective, gets jabbed with a syringe of Ozone during a drug bust. The transformation begins, but not before Boone-- now suspended because his partner got killed in the bust-- begins an investigation into the drug's distribution, leading him to the bestial druglord Bebartolo (Bookwalter regular James L. Edwards, who recently popped up in Speed Freak Productions' The Red Skulls). The fight is on!Now, don't get me wrong-- this is a dumb movie. The acting is flatline (when it's good), the sets are cheap, the direction is inconsistent, the lighting is awful, the soundtrack worse. The editing's pretty good. (Momma always taught me to say something nice or not say anything at all. She didn't tell me I couldn't preface nice with bad.) But, man, Bookwalter-- who also co-wrote the script-- had some great ideas here. And one gets the idea that rather than let budget constraints force the cutting of some of the movie's more memorable scenes, he stretched as thin as he could to make sure that, say, the audience got to see the arena scene. That takes guts. As a result, we get to see a surprisingly layered and complex zombie movie, albeit a badly-delivered one. Speed Freak Productions did it better with Midnight Skater, but remember this was nine years previous. Given all that, I found it rather enjoyable. Be warned, though, the budget for this movie, according to IMDB, was thirty-five hundred dollars. You get what you pay for. **

I saw this movie under the title "Street Zombies" in the previews of another Z-grade horror film. The preview included a man shooting up drugs, and his head subsequently exploding. I thought this movie would be so bad it would be funny.I have never been so wrong in my entire life. I sat through each minute of this movie, both hoping it would get better and counting down until the end. I literally had to look at the back of the DVD box multiple times to see how close I was to the movie being over. Unfortunately, each minute that passed was a minute wasted and a horrible minute of filmmaking. And it kept on getting worse. Towards the end the "protagonist" fathers a goblin-like child that starts speaking as soon as it exits his wife's body, and he turns into a mass of amorphous goo for no apparent reason.I think playing "E.T." on the Atari would be more interesting than this, because you know once you get to the pit it is over permanently, unlike this movie.I feel like an hour and a half of my life was wasted. I could have spent my time doing better things, like reading a book, playing with a dog, or smelling my own flatulence. I think the latter would be far more intellectually stimulating and interesting than this movie.

e anche questo altro film del regista underground J.R.Bookwalter approda per la collana Spasmo Video, con tutto il suo carico di splatter casareccio e regia low budget.articolo arrivato puntuale e in ottime condizioni.una chicca underground da non perdere!

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