HumanoidOfFlesh Ozone is the name of a new highly addictive street drug that is often fatal for bums and junkies.Detectives Eddie Boone and Mike Weitz are hot on the trail of drug lord Sam DeBartolo,who's behind the trafficking of Ozone.While running down a connection Weitz is attacked by zombies and disappears and Boone is injected with the drug.He slowly starts to mutate into zombie.I enjoyed "Ozone" due to its pretty high gore level.The main performance of James Black is quite solid and the digital effects are surprisingly effective.The pace of the film moves swiftly and there is plenty of gore on display.Considering the budget of "Ozone" I was impressed with this small indie production.I still haven't seen "The Dead Next Door",but I'd like to someday.7 out of 10.

Scarecrow-88 Goofy, cheap gore-flick from Ohio's own JR Bookwalter(The Dead Next Door) has cop, Eddie Boone(James Black)tangling with the malformed agents of a drug pushing monster(..once a human being who evolved into what looks like a talking protoplasm, with a pig's head)who has created a drug called Ozone which turns your body into something quite grotesque. This monster who sits in a swivel chair ordering his posse, whose faces bulge these bulb-like warts, to commandeer Eddie, wishes to use him as the next step in an evolutionary ladder with Ozone providing the change. Most of the film displays Eddie's nightmarish night of dodging the villains while suffering bouts of hysteria caused by part of the Ozone drug that was injected in his arm when he lost his partner on a drug bust gone awry.Lots of outrageous gore for fans of the ultra-violence. A druggie's head explodes when he ingests too much of Ozone. A human body dissolves into a skeleton. A head is crushed under the tire of a driving car. An arm is severed with the wound bleeding. A female gives birth to Eddie's demon baby! The monster of the film is a badly designed costume, with the actor's voice mechanically altered. When Eddie and Justine(Lori Scarlett), the female he is seduced by who is in league with the monster, transform momentarily into these hideous beasts(..a severe case of mutation) while embracing for a sexual encounter. The director depends heavily on the morphing process utilized in Terminator 2. When humans begin to transform, their faces and skin often bubble! Eddie's world, presented in the film, is basically a series of run-ins with the monster's zombie agents, and his escapes. A lot of the film has Eddie working through the city under siege much like Snake Pliskin in Escape from New York. Close encounters, staying one step ahead when all hope seem lost. The special effects are as low budget as it gets, but there's a charm to Bookwalter's films that might rub off on those just seeking a flick to consume 90 minutes. It has enough insanity, I believe, to please an audience looking for such over-the-top grue and strange characters.

rhob1960 I'm not going to say that all movies made on video are crap just because they have little or no budget! No! But rarely, rarely have I seen one worth squat and this is one of them. Filmwork-Bad. Screenplay-Bad. Acting-non-existent. SFX- worse that The Incredible Shrinking Man. Bookhalter or Bookwalter should at least take a few classes at a community college, or read a book before he ever attempts to make another film, if he hasn't done humanity a favor and stopped already! Go rent out Invisible Invaders or The Giant Behemoth or the Brain from Planet Arous and have a good time. Don't watch this! You've been warned.

Jeremy Davis This isn't a great movie, but it's also not really a terrible movie. I found it pretty enjoyable, to tell the truth. The effects are obviously cheap, but when you consider the budget these people were probably working with, I think the film came out rather well. The major players act better than most in low-budget horror films, and the storyline, for the most part, makes sense. A few seemingly pointless scenes are thrown in here and there, but overall it isn't too hard to follow. I liked the movie, and if you enjoy horror movies and can appreciate a fairly well-made low-budget film, Ozone is worth checking out.