NIGHTMARE CITY (1980)

Okay, this one is probably even worse than DEMONS, but it’s at least FUNNY. There’s a nuclear accident, and a reporter waits for a plane to land to interview the scientists who researched it. But when the plane lands and the doors open, a bunch of mutated goons jump out and start stabbing and shooting everybody. (Most people might call these guys “zombies,” but THEY AREN’T DEAD. That kind of thing bothers me. You might also wonder how these mutated goons can fly and land a plane. This is one of life’s great questions.) The people attacked by the mutated goons turn into mutated goons, and things go all goony. They attack an aerobics/dance TV show. They use weapons (again, something ZOMBIES DON’T DO, PEOPLE). We wind up somehow up on top of a roller coaster. Then it kind of ends. The makeup is ridiculous (it all looks like masks made out of papier mache and stuck on), the violence is silly (the “flesh eating” is mostly just the goons licking people’s fake-looking wounds, and the “head shots” all seem to use the same 2 or 3 dummies), the story is stupid, and the people in it aren’t worth saving. But it’s lively! And energetic! And it’s entertaining! So I have to give it that. I never got bored, and I laughed a lot, and I’m not sorry I saw it.