Synopsis
Dawn Of A New Breed Of Heroes
A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.
1986 Directed by Nico Mastorakis
A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.
Los Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Heros Boys, A legyőzhetetlenek, Manhã Aterradora, Нулевые ребята, 肢解屠场
Noone else is gonna say it so I guess I will... Steve totally looks like a hot Dana Carvey!! And I'm OK with it.
A fun blending of the action- and slasher movie by Greek madman Nico Mastorakis. This is actually only the second movie of his that I have seen, after In the Cold of the Night (I do own Island of Death on blu-ray and will watch that one soon). I loved this movie's eighties vibes, its house in the woods setting and Kelli Maroney.
The homicidal maniacs were introduced in a cool way (those silhouetted night shots were inspired) but in the end they weren't as menacing as I hoped they would be. There were still a couple of fun kill sequences though and the final minutes were pretty spectacular.
A ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-movie.. obviously! ;)
The Zero Boys is an odd little film. Although it's chalked full of 80s charisma it also feels a little flat. The ingredients are all there but they don't always hit their mark. The colourful style and goofy characters are on point but the overall story and execution are a little weak. A matter of style over substance.
The Zero Boys are a paintball team that's been giving the competition a good ol whooping. Their skills are put to the ultimate test when a wilderness trip turns into deadly game of survival! Stalked by violent strangers they must rally together before they are picked off one by one! Do paintball skills translate to real guns? They better hope so!
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Yet another oddity from Greek lunatic Nico Mastorakis. The Zero Boys is a genre bending mix of slasher movie and survivalist action. We focus on a trio of paintballers who head off into the woods with their girlfriends for a weekend away. However, while there they come under attack from a bunch of hillbillies, and become forced to put their survival skills to the test for real. The film throws out big Friday the 13th vibes, at least in the first half. The woodland setting is very utilised and the film is surprisingly stylish in places. There's some good hints at danger - a bit of blood here, a scream, some bones, a dead body, man stood there with a…
I'm so conflicted on this one. During the initial buildup, this thing was throwing out such intense Friday the 13th vibes that this almost felt like a lost sequel. I was enjoying the vibe so much that I was already anticipating slapping a 5-star rating on this thing and declaring it an underrated classic. The early teases of the killer/s are so well done. The way they appear in brief flashes, shrouded in shadow. The way they set traps and toy with their prey, moving secretly through hidden passages and trap doors. The implication that they are cunning and well prepared enough that even the Uzi-toting Zero Boys are in over their heads.
I'm not one of those horror purists…
astonishingly dull for a movie about a bunch of Uzi-toting weekend warriors who run afoul of a couple of redneck cannibals. it takes 4 guys with machine guns 90 minutes to take care of two hillbillies with crossbows.
“I’m 5’6, I love tennis, and I fuck on the first date.”
Wannabe Rambo boys/survival games late-teens go for a weekend getaway, but due to inclement weather and their topless Jeep, end up waylaid and trespassing at a seemingly unoccupied cabin in the California woods. The boys and their long-suffering girlfriends absolutely wreck the joint, fucking in the beds, leaving the door wide open in a rainstorm, and blasting their mini Uzis with no regard for human safety. So, I'm not sure why they act so surprised when they end up stalked and abducted by knife and cross-bow wielding lunatics.
I’m convinced Nico Mastorakis is utterly incapable of making a “normal” movie, or in this case, a normal slasher. He…
You know that one part in Jason Lives with the paintball? This is a full movie of just that mood. 1986, man.
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Who would have guessed that what cabin in the woods set slasher movies were missing all along was an arsenal of semi-automatic machine guns. When the rowdy and randy group of young imbeciles at the centre of this inane film break and enter into such a cabin looking for shelter, they stumble across a barn fitted out for filming snuff porn. They then proceed to be hunted by a couple of inbred rednecks armed with with crossbow, machetes and spear guns while navigating traps like tree snares and punji stick pits. Luckily, they are a troupe of paintball enthusiasts who have also just happened to have brought along a crate of those aformentioned semi-automatic machine guns and tonnes of live…
As watchable as it is unrealized, but is there anything more underwhelming than finding out the guy hunting you down is Joe Estevez in a cardigan?
some of the lamest and dumbest slasher teens ever (except kelli maroney who is dumb but at least in a likeable way), but this is kinda like madman or the final terror where the slow pace and creepy atmosphere make the kills satisfactorily shocking. this is so gorgeous though, largely thanks to the arrow bluray transfer, which makes the fog machines look extra foggy and the lighting look extra extraterrestrial and reveals the gimmicky camera movements for what they truly are - a fine ballet. criterion who?
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I'm nineteen, I was born in Minnesota and I'm in my sophomore year at the university. I'm a straight-A psych major with a minor in speech pathology and one in English. I'm 5'6", love tennis and I fuck on the first date.
This is what happens when you piss on hospitality. Music by Hans Zimmer.