Meat Market (film)

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Meat Market
Directed by Brian Clement
Written byBrian Clement
Story byNick Sheehan
Tania Willard
Starring
  • Claire Westby
  • Paul Pedrosa
  • Alison Therriault
  • Teresa Simon
  • Chelsey Arentsen
  • Cam Pipes
  • Ken Peters
  • Clifton Mitchell
  • Bryn Johnson
Edited byBrian Clement
Music byJustin Hagberg
Production
companies
Frontline Films
Sub Rosa Studios
Distributed bySub Rosa Studios
Release date
  • December 6, 2000 (2000-12-06)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Meat Market is a 2000 Canadian horror film directed and written by Brian Clement, based on a story by Nick Sheehan and Tania Willard. It stars Claire Westby and Paul Pedrosa as survivors of a zombie apocalypse who team up with a masked Mexican wrestler and a trio of vampires. The film was followed by two sequels, Meat Market 2 and Meat Market 3 .

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Plot

Ex-bounty hunters Argenta and Shahrokh discover that a wave of murders is the work of zombies. They team up with a trio of female vampires – Nemesis, Valeria, and Tiamat – and a masked Mexican wrestler, El Diablo Azul, against the zombies. Eventually, they learn that the zombies are reanimated by nanobots, which gives the zombies a collective consciousness. In the end, the scientist who created them is killed by his own creations.

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Release

Sub Rosa Studios released the film in a bundle with the sequel in January 2007. [1]

Reception

Bloody Disgusting rated the film 2.5/5 stars and said that the rating would have been lower had it not been an independent film, though the special effects were described as "decent". [2] Beyond Hollywood wrote that the film "suffers from every known pitfall of no-budget filmmaking, but in the end still manages to impress — if just slightly." [3] Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia Volume 2, Peter Dendle called it a "sad opus shot on Super VHS" that shows little of the creativity that goes into low budget labors of love. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Miska, Brad (2007-01-29). "Horror in Your House: Tuesday, January 30, 2007". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved 2013-12-14.
  2. ↑ "Meat Market". Bloody Disgusting . 2004-10-22. Retrieved 2013-12-14.
  3. ↑ "Meat Market (2000) Movie Review". BeyondHollywood.com. 2003-05-20. Retrieved 2013-12-14.
  4. ↑ Dendle, Peter (2012). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: Volume 2, 2000–2010. McFarland & Company. p. 128. ISBN   9780786492886.
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