It starts off with a ripoff reproduction of the beginning of the classic "Night of the Living Dead". A long winding road with an approaching car, a creepy soundtrack building in the background. Quick cut to some Feds watching a naked woman take a bath in a creek. They chase her and shoot her. Turns out she was part of a group of potheads (hardly a reason to kill someone) growing a field of dope out in some campgrounds, somewhere. Looks like backwoods Mississippi, I dunno.
Anyway, The Feds decide to dump a load of some experimental chemical herbicide that hasn't been approved by anyone, onto their crop. The potheads and the idiot pilot that was conned into crop dusting with this unknown chemical weapon, all the dopers start to get sick, puke blood, and for some reason begin to crave human flesh. Y'know, the typical symptoms of "zombieism".
A few unexposed potheads, a ranger and his wife, and a family camping in the woods (complete with a mentally challenged son), all get caught up in the drama. We lose a character here, a zombie there until the Feds finally figure out that they have really screwed things up and go out to assess the damage, eventually getting killed in the process by the few remaining zombies that are left.
That's about it really, the rest is all women screaming at the top of their lungs and moaning zombies. There's a lot of rather convincing gore, but other than that it was kinda boring. It ends with the ranger leaving office, mourning the death of his wife, who by the way was one of the worst actresses of all time, and that says a lot coming from someone like me who loves watching shitty movies on purpose. It was about potheads and zombies, two things that I really thought would make for a great flick, so I thought it would be cool. And as far as cult films go, it's pretty good (meaning it basically still sucked). It's very Troma, although I can't say for sure whether it was actually made by them or not. This is just another example of a movie that had a really great premise but missed its mark, mostly because it had no budget, terrible actors, and zero promotion.
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