BA_Harrison In 'M is for Mastication', an episode from the 2014 horror anthology 'The ABCs of Death 2', a user of the recreational drug known as bath salts turns into a flesh-eating zombie. But low-to-no-budget SOV horror director Dustin Wayde Mills got there first…Mills' 2013 film Bath Salts Zombies sees a potent and highly addictive strand of the designer drug (developed from a missing chemical weapon that sounds suspiciously like the one from Return of the Living Dead) being pushed to junkies, with precisely the same results: the user is transformed into a violent, uncontrollable monster with a hunger for human flesh.Working with very little cash but lots of enthusiasm, Mills brand of horror is unashamedly lowbrow, his films designed to appeal to fans of splattery trash, with lots of cheapo gore and gratuitous T&A. However, for a purveyor of such gleefully lurid entertainment, Mills also displays a remarkable sense of style and creativity: Bath Salt Zombies might feature full frontal nudity, severed breast and penis gags, and a crazed ghoul that eats peoples' faces, but it also sees the director experimenting with some surprisingly impressive film-making techniques, including a neat POV sequence complete with 'blinking eye' effect, cool slo-mo shots, experimental use of colour filters, and time-lapse photography. There's also a highly stylised comic-book inspired smack-down between the main character and a SWAT team. For such a cheap production, this is ambitious stuff indeed.The film opens with a crudely animated intro that I found rather perplexing (and which almost had me turning off before the film had really got started), and Mills does struggle to keep the momentum going at times, but I still had enough fun with this flick to recommend it to fellow gore-hounds and fans of underground horror.

TheRetardedVacuum **ONE OR TWO POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD**This is the first Dustin Mills movie I've seen so far, I have heard many good things about his other films such as Puppet Monster Massacre and Easter Casket so I really hope Bath Salt Zombies is not up there with his more acclaimed output because, despite the fact that I somewhat enjoyed this movie, I still found it to be lacking in several places.First things first, let's start off with the good. The set pieces looked fantastic and the movie is extremely well-shot for such a low-budget. Some of the gore effects are decent if ultimately unsatisfying, but unfortunately most of them are below par (more on that later). There are two scenes of nudity for T&A fans, one of which shows pretty much everything, and both go on for quite a long time. The cartoon segments are cool, and the puppetry is well done (the best scene in the movie involves a dog mutated by chemicals).Now for the bad. For one, the plot is bare bones, what you read in the IMDb summary is as deep as it goes. The sound is all over the place, whenever people are talking the volume could be quiet as a mouse one second and blaring the next. There really isn't that much gore and, while a few effects look decent enough, a majority of what is there is really nothing to write home about and looks rather poor (any blood splatter from gunshot wounds is just red fog imposed on to the screen with CGI). The make-up for the titular Bath Salt Zombies is rather laughable. And, to top it all off, we get a stupid and frustrating non-ending.Despite these flaws, I did find the movie to be moderately entertaining in places. But unfortunately, the bad outweighs the good. I will still be checking out Dustin Mill's other films eventually, I do like his style, so hopefully he is capable of impressing me.

hbeeinc I'm not really sure what film the other reviewers saw. The movie I saw, for the budget, rocked. Some great performances, good soundtrack, nice direction and good editing. Is it a masterpiece? Nope. Is it blood, gore, drugs and gratuitous nudity. Yup. Can it be mistaken for The Shining or Dario Agento movie? Nope. Can you enjoy the living hell out it? Yup. Seriously, there was some great writing and performances. For the budget they had, the special effects were fine and inventive. My biggest complaint is that the fight at the end went on for far too long. Outside of that, the lack of pretension that the other reviewers apparently expect in their low budget horror films worked in its favor. I spent $0.99 to watch this on a Roku channel because who can resist blowing a buck on a movie called Bath Salt Zombies? It's literally the best bang for the buck I've gotten in a long time.

totally-tonto An odd theme that had the potential to be quite funny, but wasn't. Cartoon-style intro was good, but rest of the film appears to be very home-made and poorly directed. Sexy/erotic scenes were pointlessly long. Don't bother watching unless you're just intrigued by the title.Acting:Not great - Plot:Poor - Ending:Odd- Effects:BasicLaughs:None - Scares:None - Twists:None - Gore:Poor - 3d Version:N/AOverall opinion: >>Worth watching for free: No >>Worth watching at bargain price: No >>Worth watching at standard price: Hell No