[Dr.Kelvinstein]

We all know Italian exploitation directors of the 80s excelled at churning out zombie movies and post apocalyptic Road Warrior rip-offs (stuff like 2020 Texas Gladiators, 1990 Bronx Warriors--even Fulci made one, though I can't think of the title off-hand), so why didn't anyone ever combine the two and make a zombie/post apocalypse hybrid? The genres, at least as done in Italy, had a lot in common: government officials wearing bio-hazrd suits and carrying heavy weaponry, the rag-tag band of wise-cracking commandos, miles and miles of empty space, etc. Not to mention that the post apocalyptic movies had a lot of mutations caused by nucleur fall-out, a plot device that could easily lend itself to the reanimation of the dead. Vincent Dawn (he just keeps popping up, doesn't he) even mixed the horror genre (in the form of killer rats) and the post apocalyptic genre, as did Paul Naschy over in Spain.

So why didn't we ever see David Warbeck or big William Smith driving a souped-up car thru a bombec-out city while his leather-clad warrior babe (who was probably from some tribe that didn't speak English, even badly dubbed English) fried zombies with the laser mounted on the trunk?!? ZOMBIE HUNTERS OF THE YEAR 2050---EXTERMINATORS OF THE LIVING DEAD---hell, it almost writes itself.

I don't know about y'all, but I think this was a serious missed oppurtunity!!!!!!