[Live Action DVD] Zombie Hunter Rika

[Chris Beveridge]

Review by Chris Beveridge

Mania Grade: B
* Audio Rating: B
* Video Rating: B+
* Packaging Rating: B
* Menus Rating: N/A
* Extras Rating: N/A
* Age Rating: No Rating
* Region: 1 - North America
* Released By: Switchblade Pictures
* MSRP: 24.98
* Running time: 86
* Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
* Disc Resolution: 480i/p
* Disc Encoding: MPEG-2

In Summary:
Zombie Hunter Rika is a whole lot of fun overall in that kind of near campy way that most zombie movies used to fall into for quite a long time. The Japanese angle on it is amusing with some quirks, including a trio of maids that spend time comparing their breasts sizes by whipping them out. And one of the maids even wears cat ears. It’s like they wanted to pique the interest of several different kinds of fans with this. There’s lots of blood flowing here, plenty of dead and some surprisingly good action sequences as well. Even more surprising is that the lead, a model, never actually strips down and they actually cut her arm of and replace it with a man’s arm. Zombie Hunter Rika has some replay value to it with the amount of things it has in play, but it also has a really good sense of fun as it tries to do some different things. Zombies. Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.