Revolution 666 — Revolution 666 (DVD)
From the mid-2010s, Revolution 666 is a low-budget blend of slasher and zombie film- with a walrus mask killer, a Manson-like cult, and a lost Beatles song. Here’s Wacked Films' release of the film on DVD.
Revolution 666 is from 2015 and was directed by Milan, Michigan Matt Jaissle (The Necro Files, Gobblefoot, Maws).
The one-hour-and-sixteen-minute film centres around Freddie Curtains (Adolf Mulzer) middle-aged/ motorbike riding radio DJ. He gets sent a CDR of “Revolution 666” a track that was apparently removed from The Beatles' White Album due to its occult power- he plays it on the radio, and this raises a zombie killer in a baggy white jumper and a walrus mask, who goes on a killing spree.
Added into the mix, we have a three-man Manson-like cult, and Curtain's alcoholic wife. The film moves from a graveyard photo shoot, where the zombie killer breaks out of his dead grass grave, smashing the photographer in the head and gut-munching the model, and sets off on his lumbering murder spree.
We get some fairly tense stalking scenes often in a shadow-bound house, with a score that centres on sour drone & piercing, ringing pitches. With throat slashings and pulling out entrails, gut-munching. Curtains running around, trying to stop the killer & avoid the three-man cult who are trying to get hold of the CDR with the song on.
The mix of slasher and zombie-bound horror is done well enough; our middle-aged/ thinning haired hero does a decent enough job, with the film moving towards a bridge-bound gory showdown.
As we’ve come to expect from Jaissle, Revolution 666 is a watchable slice of ultra-low-budget horror. The Beatles element is neat, with passable enough acting all round, and equally passable lo-fi gore.
The only extra on the DVD is a music video for Agnez Moorhead’s “Danger”, which features footage from the film.
Revolution 666 is an engaging enough slasher/ zombie crossbred with themes relating to The Beatles, adding an interesting twist to proceedings.