
The evil Dr. Stern returns, armed with a lethal intelligence serum that yields horrific results at the Butte County Institute for Special Education.... (Full plot summary below)
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The evil Dr. Stern returns, armed with a lethal intelligence serum that yields horrific results at the Butte County Institute for Special Education.
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| User ReviewDesiree EHorendously hilarious. It is a cheesy movie that knows it's place. This movie had us laughing and omg'ing. Loved it. |
| User ReviewBrian CGranted, there's nothing cool about the fact that I like this movie. Then again, allow me to make my case for being okay with this premise: To some degree, we're laughing at special needs people here. But compare it to something like that Johnny Knoxville movie, The Ringer. THIS movie isn't a condescending flick that excuses its handicapped gags with an insincere message. No, this is simply a fun horror-comedy, in which no one is safe from being the butt of a joke. That, for me, is more respectable. This loose sequel to MONSTURD is surprisingly smart, yet shameless, as it revels in potty jokes and cheapo gross-outs. Some of the actors are clearly NOT actors. And the filmmakers clearly don't care. Hell, the video grade is decidedly low. The sound recording is occasionally crappy. And there's no such thing as a transitional shot. BUT... 90% of the jokes work. And Retardead actually weaves stories and characters together better than Spider-Man 3. Hang around for the song on the closing credits. |
| User ReviewJason DRetardead is the ultra-low budget, low-brow, and very ill-conceived loose prequel to the equally moronic Monsturd. I thought for sure I was making a big, big mistake in renting this film, seeing as I absolutely hated Monsturd, regardless of my love for low budget messes. In all actuality, Retardead wound up being a little fun, even if it looked to have been made for just a few bucks. The story's big problem is taking a very controversial concept, running with it for a couple of blocks, and then completely abandoning it. The film focuses on the idea of retards being tested on by a demented scientist (the same one who created Monsturd) who at first succeeds in making them smart until they rapidly become flesh eating monsters that create an outbreak in the community. If you're going to go "there" with the retard controversy, see it all the way through. This could have been a really awesomely offensive movie, but instead, it will probably just offend the easily offendable, who, honestly, have become so predictable in what offends them that it's honestly not funny to see them get offended anymore. Anyways, the film provides a lot of laughs, a lot of badly done gore effects, and some quirky appearances from the likes of former Dead Kennedy's frontman Jello Biafra to my good pal Dan Ellis in a small role. I'd recommend this film to, of course, fans of Monsturd as well as really, really, really low budget films. If you can't take a joke or see that a film knows it's awful but runs with it anyways for the sake of being silly and entertaining weirdos, then obviously, you are a moron if you think this film is for you. Don't bother watching or rating it when you know you'll hate it is all I'm saying. |
| User ReviewSean P"Speaking of perverts. Hats off to the new headlights. Oh, you like them? Like them? Sh**, I wasn't sure if I was wearing 3D glasses or if I was walking into a Hooters." Probably the lowest budget film I've seen. It's campy. I was hoping this movie was going to be so RETARDEAD that it would turn out hilarious....but it ended up just being OK. I enjoyed the fake movie theater intro (think Grindhouse), but kinda dragged out a bit too long. Might like watching this if you're with a group of people who also like zombie/campy films. |
| User ReviewChris GWhy am I not surprised that there are no reviews for this film? :) B-movie, of course. Special Ed Students are turned into Zombies by evil Dr. Stern. This wasn't too bad. It had some funny parts to it. The make up was cheesy but acceptable for the budget of the film. Zombie Fans - a must see. Why? BC its ZOMBIES of course. They are vicious and hungry. Lots of guts and blood splatter. Yum!!! |
| User ReviewLanky Man PGreat title. Unwatchable "film". |
| User ReviewRobert BRetardead (Rick Popko and Dan West, 2008) As politically incorrect as it may be, one of my favorite zombedies of recent years is Phillips and Simmons' 2006 crapfest Special Dead. I know I'm going to hell for laughing as hard as I did at that movie, but in the end, despite its surface shtick, there's actually a germ of true affection for the movie's mentally challenged characters. I know you didn't see Special Dead. Almost no one has. So my comparing it to this turkey will mean absolutely nothing to you. Just trust me as I ramble on to finish out this paragraph. In any case, I was kind of hoping that Retardead, Popko and West's sequel to their classic* Monsturd, would have that same affection. For that matter, I'd hoped given the title that the mentally-challenged natures of the characters would, in a way similar to Special Dead be integral to the plot. I mean, you look at a title like Retardead, you can understand my thinking, right? More fool me. This is exactly the sort of mean-spirited tripe that gives political incorrectness a bad name; the mentally challenged characters are there for the sole purpose of the audience to ridicule. (And it's definitely for the audience; the characters in the film don't do so at all.) And I know this is probably something really stupid to get mad about, but... they're not even convincingly acted as mentally challenged. They're just bad actors acting badly. They seem about as mentally challenged as the characters in Zombies Ate My Neighbours: The Movie or Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter. Since you didn't see those either, no character in either of those movies (that I can recall) was supposed to be mentally challenged. Yes, the acting when it came to that sort of thing in Special Dead was way over the top, but at least it was obvious that the actors understood the difference between playing a mentally-challenged character and playing a person with complete faculties. I'd probably even be willing to put up with that given some aspect of this movie, anything, that would have made it watchable. (Aside from the Living Dead Girls dance number, which was hot. But I digress.) But... no. Script, direction, sets, lighting, soundtrack, all worthless. Emily Hagins, who was twelve years old when she directed Pathogen, has more understanding of what makes a good zombie movie than do Popko and West. Absolutely worthless. The only reason the rating isn't lower is that, god help me, I watched three or four movies over the past month I actually hated more than this dreck. * Â 1/2 *note: in case you missed it, that was sarcasm. |
| User ReviewJoe BWowy what a crappy movie this was so dumb but man oh man funny as hell it was but not funny ha ha funny like why did I watch this crap kinda funny so cheap and sure is a B movie all the way |