Naked Zombie Girl     by

Bobbie L. Washington

Have you ever ran across something that for whatever reason, resonates something in you that leaves a lasting impression? Well. I made such a discovery of a somewhat innocuous little gem of a film that's called Naked Zombie Girl that came out in 2014. It is exactly what the title claims, but it's about a girl who kills or rather re-kills zombies. So the premise is this, apparently there is a plague of zombies roaming the land. They just jump right into it without any setup. They have to since the little innocuous film has a running time of 28 minutes. And so there is a 1971 Cadillac Broughham chugging along down the highway with three people in the car, two women and a guy. The car comes to a stop having engine trouble and at the same time, the guy is sick, apparently bitten by a zombie.

All of a sudden a horde of zombies come out of nowhere attacking the occupants in the car. One of the girls in driving. The zombies grab the girl in the backseat and the dead guy. The driver eventually is under attack as she fights off the zombies. In her escape, her dress is torn off after getting caught in the car door. She runs to a barn or some structure where she finds a chainsaw. Now unlike some other teen horror slasher movie, this chick figures out things and she gets the chainsaw started and now the fun begins.

Unlike The Avengers: Age of Ultorn which is long, laborious and lacking the fun element that's gone missing from the earlier films, Naked Zombie Girl has it's tongue planted firmly in cheek with the camp factor. It's not thought provoking, it won't make you cry for Ryan Gossling, it won't do your taxes, it won't have a dog rescuing you from a well. Here you have a naked girl running around with a chainsaw dispatching zombies left and right. And then you realize that her being naked is her super power. It sort of reminds you of Buffy Sommers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Here was a high school girl who had this gift of killing demons, vampires, ghouls, etc. while attending the prom in a ball gown. But Naked Zombie Girl takes it to a whole different level. After she kills her first set of zombies, a guy in a white pickup truck pulls up and blows one of the zombies away, saving our heroine from a fate worse than death, literally. But he didn't bat a eye when he tells her to get into the truck and he drives her back to his place so she can wash all of the blood off her. Of course you can see this coming because while she is in the bathroom, the zombies get into the house and eat the guy. She hears the noise and puts a towel around her and goes out into the hallway and looks down the hall to see the zombies devouring the guy. She drops her towel and she has her super power again as she goes on the attack.

And that's what I took away from this and that was her “girl power” was her being naked and I don't know if she knew that her power was derived from her being naked? She seemed to free herself from those conventions that were placed by the social norms. Those emotional shackles, invisible as they are, were liberated from her when she grabbed that chainsaw like it was her “new dick” and stuck it in the zombie splitting him into. What you saw was someone who wasn't looked at as some sexualized creature but a different kind of warrior that's worthy of further examination in the cinematic structure on women in film.

Writer/Director Ricky Bird did a masterful job with the resources that he had. And with a budget of $17,500 the zombie makeup and effects didn't seem cheap. Meghan Chadeayne plays Barbara/Naked Zombie Girl without reservations. Money was raised though crowd funding sources and I don't know if a feature film is planned. It falls under the category of grindhouse and there is a graphic novel of Naked Zombie Girl floating out there. But please find this film and be surprised by it all. Become a fanboy of Naked Zombie Girl and go to the website at nakedzombiegirlmovie.com , it's worth the trip.

The X-Files: The Anticipated Return

By

Bobbie L. Washington

The Nerd World collectively blew its living wad when it was announced by Fox that The X-Files would return for a limited run on broadcast television. The original series ran from 1993–2002 and collected a few prizes along the way including an Emmy to Gillian Anderson for her performance. During its run, The X-Files produced a feature film, a feat that no other television series had ever done while still in production. But all things must end as they say and The X-Files ended some what bittersweet. The Lone Gunmen had been killed off and CSM may or may not have been killed in the Anasazi-pueblos explosion. Another feature film was made but it wasn’t well received by the fans because it veered way off course to any of the mythos that had been developed over the years. So what is an alien to do on the return of The X-Files? Well, here is my scenario with extreme liberties taken.

Scully and Mulder are living a mid-life existence. Scully is still pursuing her medical interest while specializing in DNA therapy for cancer patients. Mulder is a sci-fi writer of novels based on many of the events he investigated while at the FBI. He’s a successful author in the realm of fiction writers. As the old adage goes, write what you know and he knows of things that go bump in the night. For the most part, they are a happy couple but there is still one thing that haunts the both of them and that is William, the son Scully gave up for adoption in order to protect him, so she had thought.

It is 4:30 am, Scully is having a dream about William. In her dreams, she sees what he is experiencing and it is not good. He is a teenager now. This isn’t Scully’s first dream about him. She has been dreaming about him for quite some time but she hasn’t told Mulder about the dreams because he might dismissed them as her feeling guilty for abandoning him. This dream is different, it shows dread and danger. She wakes up in a jolt and is breathing hard. Mulder wakes up as well. He ask what is wrong and she tells him it is just a bad dream. He comforts her and tries to get her to go back to sleep but the dream is real.

In some New Mexico/Arizona town, William is having some trouble. He is a foster kid moving from one home to another. His life has not been easy. His adoptive parents were killed three months after he was placed with them. He became a ward of the courts but was this by design or by chance? William has come of a certain age where he is noticing things about him are not normal. He has abilities that he keeps to himself that only one other person knows about, another foster kid, his girlfriend, a Native American. And William also has been having dreams. He sees Scully in his dreams but doesn’t know who she is. At this point of his life, his abilities have come to the attention of “the others”. William has lived next to an Indian reservation and there is a relative of Albert Hosteen, the Navajo code breaker, who has befriended William and knows who he really is. Let’s cal him Seven Hawks.

William has a need to seek out the truth and he is drawn to his dreams and wants to find the woman who haunts him. He goes to Seven Hawks who has a wolf as a pet. He tells Seven Hawks of his dreams and his pull to find out who the woman is. Seven Hawks advises him but can’t stop him from traveling the long distance. William decides that he must leave and the wolf takes off after him. He tries to stop the wolf from following him but Seven Hawks tells him to let him go, he has no claim on the animal and it is up to the animal to decides. William and the wolf takes off.

Meanwhile, Scully starts to experience daydreams while at work. They are vivid and clear. She thinks she is hallucinating. Eventually she tells Mulder what she has been experiencing. Mulder believes her feelings are real but he doesn’t know what to do about them. He wants her to go to a psychiatrist.

William and the wolf are making it across country and meet danger along the way. There is something following them. The wolf senses it. This unknown senses William’s abilities that have yet to his potential. He finally makes it to the east coast and he senses that he needs to get to the FBI headquarters. While the wolf stays outside, he slips in with a bunch of school children and makes his way to a computer where is abilities makes it easy for him to hack into it. He finds Scully’s information. Skinner, who is getting close to retiring, spots William on the terminal but William escapes with Sinner in pursuit. He rounds a corner with Skinner on his tail and as Skinner reaches the same point, William is gone.

William finds himself on the outside but he doesn’t know how he got there. The wolf is right there with his as invisible eyes watch him. Their journey is not quite over. Mulder is at his computer writing another novel. All of a sudden, he experience a daydream of Albert Hosteen of something his said to Mulder in the past while looking over his shoulder’s at a symbol on the wall. Mulder stops writing and goes online to look up that particular symbol. He eventually finds it on the dark web. The symbol has meaning to it. Mulder doesn’t know what to do with it except file it away for future use.

Scully has made it home and Mulder inquires about her day. She tells him bout what she has been experiencing and while she does, there is a knock at the door. Mulder answers it and it is William. Mulder ask he he could help him and Scully walks up to see who it is. William looks at her and she looks at him and they both recognize one another. William says, “I think I’m your son.” Scully cries.

He comes in and tells them his history but not about his abilities as yet. The wolf that came along for the journey shape-shifts into a woman. She’s naked and she walks back to another figure who drapes a coat around her. She says, “It is done, his training will start now.”

So that is just my scenario. I’m looking forward to seeing what they have to offer but they got to mention the boy because that is a story line that they left hanging big time. They need to find him of he needs to find them and make them whole again.