Beautiful one liners like, ” Now, let’s kick some zombie ass,” and ” Get your hands off my woman, you zombie bitch!” are not the only appealing qualities to this duo’s piece of work. Between the redneck town and it’s residents, the lesbian zombie leader, the toxic moonshine, the ridiculous rompings of unlikely redneck heroes….well heroes is used loosely, and the point of contact used to destroy the moonshined zombies (not the head….least not THAT head) this hillbilly, backwoods, ignorant undead, tale of dominance and territory through moonshining is pretty fucking spectacular.
Meet Billy Bob, the towns vinyl sheep fucking (Hey she has a name!…Gladys….) stiller of the finest moonshine around. Billy Bob is the only provider of the sweet nectar to town folk until newcomers Rufus and his sister Anna decide to run him out of business with a moonshine recipes that rivals Billy Bob’s. Refusing to let this brute run him out of business, he confronts Rufus, and after a devastating brawl, Billy Bob is left bleeding and limping away by his best pal Crazy Al, broken but not defeated. He owes his ability to walk away to Anna, who rushed to his side and kept Rufus from finishing him off. This heroic gesture left Anna not only on Billy Bob’s mind but he on hers. Needless to say, Rufus is not too keen on his sister falling for his competition and when the towns people aren’t showing up for their daily dose of his liquid product, Rufus knows who to blame.
Meanwhile, on the open road, we have Zeke and Frankie. Two redneck lackeys sent on a mission by the boss to dispose of some barrels containing,…something…they don’t know…and they don’t care, that is until one of the barrels pops open and green ooze is revealed leaking out. Well of course, this prompts one of the redneck idiots to dare the other redneck idiot to taste the shit. Everyone has their price and apparently $100 is enough to ingest some seriously toxic looking green goo. This clearly does not go well for our idiots, and seconds after consuming the goo, Zeke doubles over in excruciating stomach pain and becomes our first redneck turned redneck zombie (which lets be honest…the transformation is not THAT extreme for these rednecks).
After being beaten and humiliated in his own town, all that’s on Billy Bob’s mind is how to get back at Rufus and reclaim his territory that even Anna knows is rightfully his. When he and Crazy Al stumble upon a mysterious green glowing goo, Billy Bob with his friends support decide that this would be a perfect addition to his moonshine in order to outshine Rufus. Cause ya know, mysterious green goo found in the woods should def. be digestible….
It’s not and soon the townsfolk are turned into raving zombies bent on using the goo and their lesbian leader, Leon, to grow in numbers and essentially make a redneck zombie army. It’s up to Billy Bob, Crazy Al, and Anna to defeat the zombies, but unlike the movies a blow to the head does not kill these fuckers. At least not a blow to THAT head anyway….
This short read was super fun! I’ve read CANNIBAL FAT CAMP from these fellas, and they’re a match made in literary heaven. I’ll more than likely seek out more of their work.
MEET THE AUTHORS:
MARK C. SCIONEAUX: Mark C. Scioneaux is a Bram Stoker Award® nominated editor and author. He is the author of numerous short
stories appearing in various anthologies. He is the author of FAMILY DINNER; and coauthor of SLIPWAY GREY
and INSURGENT Z. He is also coauthor of the “Splattire Series” with books that include CANNIBAL FAT CAMP
and DIE, YOU ZOMBIE CRACKERS!. HORROR FOR GOOD: A CHARITABLE ANTHOLOGY is an award-nominated
anthology for charity he co-edited. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University and currently resides in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
DAVID C. HAYES: David C. Hayes is an author, performer and filmmaker that also teaches these subjects at the
university
level. His films, like A Man Called Nereus, Dark Places and The Frankenstein Syndrome (and
approximately 70 more) can be seen worldwide. He is the author of several novels, collections and
graphic novels including Cherub, Cannibal Fat Camp, Pegged, American Guignol, Scorn and Muddled
Mind: The Complete Works of Ed Wood, Jr. As a playwright, David’s full‐length and one‐act plays have
been produced from coast to coast with a run Off‐Broadway for the comedy Swamp Ho and sell‐out
performances in Phoenix for Dial P for Peanuts (winning a 2011 Ethingtony for Best Show). He is a voting
member of The Dramatist’s Guild and the Horror Writers Association.
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