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Die You Zombie Bastards! is a 2005 American Sci-Fi Horror comedy Superhero film. It concerns a Serial Killer who takes up heroism to rescue his wife from a Supervillain who's trying to make a zombie army to Take Over the World.
This film contains examples of:
- The Bermuda Triangle: Hell Island is in the centre of the triangle.
- Big Bad: Baron Fucklove Mummyhead von Nefarious, the zombie-creating megalomaniac who kidnapped Toole's wife.
- Brown Note: Red is given a conch shell that, when he blows air in it, emits a sound that can make zombie eyes melt.
- Clothing Damage: The Zombotron destroys any clothing it touches, except underwear.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Baron Nefarious gets off on having his Gag Penis injured, and is willing to let anything do it, including zombies and rats.
- Extreme Omnivore: Violet escapes her prison cell by eating the bars.
- Famous Ancestor: If her full name is any indication, Violet is related to notorious Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas
. - Gag Penis: Nefarious' dick is approximately two feet long.
- Genuine Human Hide: Toole's superhero costume includes pieces made of human flesh and skin.
- Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death
- Groin Attack: Horrible things happening to Nefarious' genitals is his kink.
- Historical Domain Character: Vlad the Impaler randomly shows up near the end of the film to help stop Nefarious.
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Halloween.
- I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The Big Bad lives on Hell Island.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Toole and his wife like to tear apart human flesh with their teeth. They also have a picnic with a head as the main course.
- Improvised Weapon: Coconut Head Face Man has to make his own weapons, due to a lack of weaponry in the Bahamas. His primary weapon is a sharpened palm tree leaf.
- Intentionally Awkward Title
- Karma Houdini: While Red is sentenced to hundreds of consecutive life sentences, Violet managed to be sentenced to a mental institution and was released in six months.
- Ms. Fanservice:
- The Maldonato sisters get multiple nude scenes, and spend most of the film in their panties with no tops on..
- Super Inga is so fanservicey that her most distinctive feature is her cleavage, to the point of it being used to identify her. Becomes Fan Disservice when it's revealed that her nipples are horribly mutilated.
- Our Demons Are Different: These are small, wrinkled monstrosities that love to torment people with food products.
- Our Zombies Are Different: These are technically living zombies that are made by a laser and are the henchmen of a megalomaniac. They're green with purple hair and have deformed faces. While they never speak, they seem to be sentient. There were undead zombies who were identical to the ones we see, but they were destroyed with their alien overlords.
- Pædo Hunt: Olaf the Cheese Demon is a sexual sadist who likes to mutilate young girls' nipples with molten cheese. Sometimes a grown woman struck his fancy, but it was mostly youths.
- Police Are Useless: The police in this film are so useless that they have a full conversation with Toole while he's covered in blood and holding a severed hand, almost miss it, and then buy his claim that the blood is from a Giant Spider. They never notice the hand. Later, when Violet is kidnapped, they flat-out refuse to investigate. Subverted in the end, where they found the bodies in Red's basement and arrest him.
- Predecessor Villain: The Warlords, an army of alien invaders who conquered Earth decades before the story began and whose technology Nefarious used to build the Zombotron.
- Retraux: The scene of the villain making his home on Hell Island is filmed in a deliberately grainy manner to indicate that it takes place in 1970.
- Roaring Rampage of Rescue: A Serial Killer goes superhero and slashes his way across the globe to save his wife from a zombie-making supervillain.
- Sex Slave: Baron Nefarious plans to keep the Maldonato sisters as his personal "yummy bums."
- Shout-Out:
- Red and Violet are shown on a redneck pastiche of The Newlywed Game. They kill everybody on set after winning.
- Coconut Head Face Man, boogeyman of the Bahamas, is directly compared to Jason Voorhees.
- Hasil Adkins' house is described as looking like the house from Sanford and Son.
- Sinister Minister: Nefarious dresses as the Pope to officiate his forced wedding to Violet.
- Sinister Scythe: Toole's weapon is a giant scythe, which he is adept enough with to decapitate somebody in one swing.
- Unholy Matrimony: Red and Violet have one of these, being a married couple with a mutual love for murder and cannibalism. After Nefarious kidnaps the latter, he tries to make her marry him, explicitly calling the marriage "the most unholy of matrimonies."
- Villain Protagonist: Red Toole is a Serial Killer of hippies, and we only root for him because he's fighting against the Zombie Apocalypse.
- Zombie Apocalypse: When his Enormo-Zombotron is built, Baron Nefarious plots to zombify the entire population of Earth.
