Zombie 108
Joe Chien
Being eaten alive by the undead would be less traumatic than sitting through this Taiwanese zombie movie.
The 108 refers to the postal code of Ximending, where a deadly viral outbreak occurs. Cops and mobsters are reluctantly thrown together and have to figure out how they are going to stay alive.
The zombie part of the film is not particularly horrific or fresh, given what can be seen on the small screen nowadays with The Walking Dead (2010 to present).
Instead, what is truly stomach-turning here is the inclusion of a grotesquely deformed sicko who keeps naked women chained up in his basement and violates them for his amusement.
The vile visual assault of this nasty piece of exploitative trash from writer-director Joe Chien will leave you shellshocked. And that is why it gets zero stars from this reviewer.
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