Ninja Zombie

Episode 152: Ninja Zombie (1992)

Theme: Not-a-Martial-Arts-Movie Month Finale
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis close out the month with Ninja Zombie — the micro-budget, super-8, Illinois-filmed fever dream that asks, “What if The Crow, Green Lantern, Road House, and the entire Undertaker–Paul Bearer storyline all got run through a lawnmower and edited together by community college film students?” It’s scrappy, it’s weirdly charming, and it’s absolutely the only movie bold enough to turn Antioch, Illinois into a mystical land of sorcery, red-spider villains, and retention ponds with higher kill counts than most slashers.

Join your two favorite budget-horror archaeologists as they unpack:

• How spit-Rockney — a villain with county-fair face paint — controls the dead through spider eggs and petty notes written on printer paper.

• The resurrection of Jack, a man who dies via sternum-stab and wakes up eight hours later looking like a leather-vested roadie for Whitesnake.

• Brother Banjo, the tennis-court warlock who charges “whatever you’ve got in your pockets” for necromancy and auto repair.

• The army of “legs” — ninjas who appear from shrubbery, get impaled, and explode into POV projectiles that soar straight into other people’s mouths.

• How the urn of Prometheus becomes the film’s Holy Grail, MacGuffin, and unexpected gastrointestinal storage solution.

From cemetery bounce-flowers to screaming extras, from severed-arm nunchuck punches to spit-Rockney bursting into flames because “dead flesh touched living flesh,” Oz and Curtis break down a film that feels more like a passionate group project than an actual feature. And somehow… that’s exactly why it’s fun.

Final Verdict

Oz — 1 old college try
Curtis — 5 stars for the Village of Antioch on TripAdvisor
Both — Genuinely impressed that a movie this tiny, this messy, and this earnest still manages to be a good time.