CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

tylerleegarriott I just want to say the picture in this article for this movie is the picture for the other death valley movie that has Eric Christian Olsen, Dash Mihok, Rider Strong. I hope you catch on to this and change it. It is an embarrassment to the movie the picture actually is related too. Speaking of, if anyone knows where to find an online copy of Death Valley with Eric Christian Olsen, Dash Mihok, Rider Strong. Please let me know because I can't seem to find it anywhere.I haven't seen it since it came out and I really want to see it again. I don't understand why this review has to be 10 lines. I'ts kind of ridiculous. I just want IMDb to know they have the wrong picture on here. Please fix this. I hope this is enough lines. I'm just trying to help.

phantombat89 God.....where do I even begin. Lets list the positive first.'Bloody Bill' does make for a potentially good movie character. Back story seems interesting. For some reason, I'm a sucker for redneck horror movies such as these (Wrong Turn, 2001 Maniacs, etc.)*END*Thats out of the way.This movie is flat out retarded. The zombies weren't scary one bit. In fact, they were hilarious. When they chase the characters, it reminds me of the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode when they used giant donuts to lure Homer clones into the ravine. The special effects range from cheesy to just sloppy, such as when the redhead was pistol whipping her zombie friends, but it just looks like she's brushing the gun against their face....all in all, don't waste your money or hardrive/IPod space on this....wait for it to come on SciFI and Laugh Your Ass Off

MisterWhiplash I'm reminded while watching Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill on the sci-fi channel something George A. Romero said recently about certain new horror directors: "They shot Faith Hill's last music video, and they think they're hot s***. Do they know how to handle it? No, they don't. Put 'em at an editing table, and they're clueless." Although Byrum Werner (maybe the coolest name for an exploitation director, I'll admit) probably hasn't done a Faith Hill video, the comparison can still apply. Werner shouldn't be directing anything remotely related to celluloid, from seeing the catastrophe that is 'Bloody Bill', as he tries to compensate for a rote and crappy script with much worse 'style'. Maybe it's a personal thing, but it's a pet peeve for me when a director uses a specific tint for a purpose that is completely ancillary, where it's more about calling attention to itself than serving any meaningful stylistic choice (Spielberg may be the only one who can get away with it). In this case, Werner uses it to the point of total madness, and not good madness: the tint is actually a lot of the time just on the *top part of the frame*, making it a foolish distraction. This goes without saying that the whole color scheme in general, whether applied by Werner himself as DP or in post, is annoying because it makes it obvious that he doesn't trust anything regarding the actual space being used, or maybe using some natural light or shadows to make atmosphere, instead of splashing on this crude red- often in a blurred vision (FOCUS! I screamed more than once). Don't even get me started on the editing in many instances, where random montage and action is cut as if by an epileptic puppy.The story itself is rote anyway: a bunch of teens riding out in the desert get car-jacked (!?) by a black guy who leads them to the ghost town of Sunset Valley, overrun by (usually) running zombies led by Bloody Bill, who has a vendetta against someone done wrong by someone and blah blah blah. Point is, a lot of this, however just totally ludicrous it all sounds (Bloody Bill's a confederate- no Yankees or blacks after all), could just be moot if it was at least a halfway decently acted or technically executed effort. It's not, at all.Watching Death Valley is like getting a checklist for things that could possibly go wrong for a movie and do, over and over again. The music is fourth-rate metal garbage on loan from the boys who've been practicing in the garage next-door; the "performances" are from nobodys (Gregory Bastian goes to lengths to be a bad-ass mutha, but is one of the most ineffectual I've seen in recent memory), this including Bloody Bill's 'actor' who is barely on screen at all; the gore and violence is directed amateurishly, with tomato-sauce blood and eye-liner used for added "effect" during the transformation from living to dead; even the production design, with the sign changing from time to time from 99 to 107 from start to finish is cheesy in an unforgivable way.It works only up to a completely ironic point; make sure you've got the right friends and good booze lying around and it should make for a chummy Saturday night movie. But good lord, don't go into it expecting any semblance of an entertaining B-horror movie. It's drek of the shlockiest order, and I'd have to be paid more than the actors themselves were (if they were that is) to sit through it again.

Paul Andrews Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill starts as five college kids, Gwen (Chelsea Jean), Mandy (Denise Boutte), Sondra (Kandis Erickson), Jerry (Matt Marraccini) & Buck (Steve Glinn) plus they're teacher Avery (Scott Carson) set off across country to Phoenix. En-route they are taken hostage by a drug dealer named Earl (Gregory Bastien) who is looking for his fellow drug dealer Darrel (Dean N. Arevalo) whom he thinks has ripped him off. They find Darrel's car & follow the road to a old town called Sunset Valley where they find Darrel injured & covered in blood, he warns them to leave but before they can they are all attacked by a horde of flesh eating zombies lead by evil Confederate soldier William Anderson AKA Bloody Bill (Jeremy Bouvet) who has placed a curse on the town & it's residents for his & his sister's executions centuries ago. It's either the flesh eating zombies or the kids & it's a fight to the death...Photographed & directed by Byron Werner I thought Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill was an OK low budget zombie film. The script moves along at a fair pace & entertains on a basic level. It isn't anywhere near the likes of Night of the Living dead (1968) or Dawn of the Dead (1978) in terms of quality but it does it's best. The character's are the typical bunch of stranded would-be victims as they eventually start to argue & bicker at each other as the situation becomes ever worse & their number begins to dwindle. Of course you don't really go into a film such as this expecting high art or a meaningful story which is just as well because this definitely isn't high art & certainly doesn't have a meaningful story. Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill is one of those films that if you turn your brain off, can ignore a few rough edges & don't set your expectations too high can be enjoyed in a dumb mindless sort of way. It ain't exactly brilliant but it ain't too bad either.Director Werner tries all the flashy & somewhat annoying editing tricks there is, bleached colours, slow-mo, fast-mo, frame skipping & quick cuts. The special effects aren't that great but I've seen worse, there's no real scares, tension or atmosphere probably because it's set entirely during the day which doesn't help the ambiance, does it? One aspect of Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill that I hated was the music, it was absolutely awful & there were times that I pressed mute on my TV remote control because it was giving me a headache. There is also a stupid bit with a grenade, I mean that grenade would have done more damage than cause a bit of smoke, I mean it was a wooden house it would have set in on fire at least, wouldn't it? The gore is tame & lacking, there's a couple of flesh eating scenes, there's a decapitated zombie head & a few gun shot wounds, I was pretty disappointed with the gore levels here to be honest.Technically Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill is OK, it's nothing special but considering the low budget it could have been worse. It looks like it was shot on a digital camcorder like a lot of low budget horror films are these days, personally I really don't like how these digitally shot films look & I much prefer proper good old fashioned film. The acting sucked, but then what did you expect?Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill is an average low budget horror film that isn't exactly spectacular but it's sort of watchable in it's own crap way, I doubt I'll ever want to see it again though. Worth a watch if your bored & have lots (& I mean lots) of love for the horror genre.