I don’t know about you, but I am the biggest fan of the worst movies. Movies so bad they’re good, you know? I have a large box full of DVDs that my girlfriend hates, and I will never get rid of them despite the fact that DVD players basically don’t exist anymore. If it ends with … of the Living Dead, I own it. Dawn of the Living Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Land of the Dead, Flight of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, etcetera. If it stars Bruce Campbell, I love it. Evil Dead (both), Army of Darkness, My Name is Bruce, and perhaps most importantly, Bubba Ho-Tep. I’ve been binge-watching ’80s horror b-movies since before binge-watching was a thing.
This is somewhat embarrassing, but I also fucking LOVE Beverly Hills 90210. It has something to do with a high school girlfriend and a trip to Costa Rica in my early 20s. Just yesterday, I put a notification in my calendar for BH90210 (meet me at the Peach Pit on August 7!) And don’t get me started on those amazingly shitty surf movies Hollywood consistently manages to ruin in the best ways. Surf Nazis Must Die, North Shore, Point Break—I live and die for those movies. One of the greatest interviews I’ve ever had the pleasure of doing was with John Philbin, who is somehow both the star of most of my favorite movies (Children of the Corn, Point Break, Tombstone, Return of the Living Dead) and a person I now get to call a friend even though I’m star struck.
So when I ran across the trailer for a film called Zombie Tidal Wave, you could say my interest was piqued. It has everything. Like, everything. Ian Ziering. Zombies. Tidal waves (FEAR THE SURFING DEAD). And it’s made by the same people who made one of the most perfect movies ever made: Sharknado.
The movie drops on August 17 on SYFY. That’s in my calendar now, too.
