Naked Zombie Girl is Back Short Film Review

About the short

• Title: Zombie Naked Girl is Back
• Runtime: about 11 minutes
• Format: short horror sequel to a 2014 short that reportedly has 2+ million YouTube views, 30+ festival awards, and a comic book tie-in.
• Premise: Barbara — still naked and wielding a chainsaw — survives a zombie apocalypse and gets drawn into a violent, chaotic action sequence.

Plot (brief)

The short opens in the middle of the action: a car chase and shooting culminate in a crash caused by a semi. A distraught man kills himself, zombies drag victims from the wreck, and Barbara becomes stuck on a fence. The sequence forces her to fight — naked and armed with a chainsaw — as zombies attack.

Highlights and standout moments

• Gore and splatter: lots of blood spray and zombie kills. Some dismembers are implied off-screen, but the reviewer enjoyed the gore overall.

• Funny beats:

  • Barbara fights a zombie using a tire rim.
  • A truck driver runs over zombies and shouts a cheeky recurring line from the first film:

    “Get those butt cheeks in here.”

• Tone and style: the zombies are slow/lagging (classic slow zombies). The score is a trippy electronic, ’80s-flavored track that fits the surreal image of a naked woman with a chainsaw.

Criticisms and negatives

• Low-budget limits: several chainsaw dismembers are suggested rather than shown; the original short reportedly had more onscreen gore.
• Thin backstory: the shooter, the causes/details of the apocalypse, and motivations are not well explained — the short feels like a cliffhanger dropped into the middle of action.
• Runtime constraint: at roughly 11 minutes, there’s little character development or narrative closure, a common short-film limitation.

Overall reaction & recommendation

• The reviewer had fun watching it and recommends it to viewers who enjoy low-budget, short-form, tongue-in-cheek zombie fare. It’s not for everyone, but you don’t need to have seen the first short to follow this one.
• Score: 3 out of 5 (reviewer notes this is meant positively). The reviewer sees strong potential if expanded into a feature and thinks an audience on a platform like Shudder would enjoy it.

Notable people mentioned

• Director: Ricky Byrd Jr.
• Actors: Nicole Chenalia, Robbie Allen, DT Carney, Ivy Pokenhorn
• Producer/contact: Steve Sanders (Hectic Films)
• Character: Barbara
• Reviewer/presenter: unnamed in the transcript