Plaga Zombie (1997)

When several college students are infected with an alien virus, it quickly spreads and turns people into zombies. Med student Bill, computer geek Max, and ex-wrestler John West combine forces to fight the zombies who are overrunning the city. The action takes place within an apartment building, as opposed to Plaga Zombie: Mutant Zone whose background is the town.

This is true low budget film making as it was shot on a single camcorder by twenty year olds. While that type of description strikes fear in my heart, this is decent and was shot better than many no budget movies. There is lots of gore, but it's really basic effects made with whatever they could get their hands on. Not all of it is great, but some of it is pretty gross looking. The make up appears to be greasepaint, although IMDB states it was cake frosting. I suppose it could have been.

The first movie in what was planned to be a trilogy, it is available on the 2 dvd set with Plaga Zombie: Mutant Zone. It is much better than I would suspect a group of friends could do with a video camera. There's a ton of crappy movies these days because everyone has access to cameras that shoot video and editing software. It would take more effort back when these were made, which culled out some of the awful and inept potential filmmakers.