I don't expect much from your average zombie comedy horror. Give me lots of gore, a few laughs, some creative kills and maybe even a sardonic comment on todays consumer society if you feel you have to. What I also expect is at least a character or three I can invest some empathy in along with a script that doesn't feel the need to treat the viewer like they're an idiot. This film fails badly in that respect. It's has pretensions at being a British 'From Dusk Till Dawn" whereas 'Carry On Zombie' is much closer to the mark (down to the requisite cross-dressing scene).
This is full of moments which feel like they've been literally lifted straight off a Benny Hill skit. If like a bit of Benny in your horror cinema then you will have been well and truly served. I myself found the 'idea' of the scene much more comedic than the 'actual' scene. Comedic as in "Who on earth green-lit this script and why did they think it was worth filming?". The pacing & timing of most of the film is so clumsy it makes the interview Sarah Palin did with Katie Couric ("I can see Russia from my house") seem astute.
None of the characters in this movie are worth caring about. You have no one to root for to survive this ordeal because they are on the whole, either immensely unlikeable or are so light on development that they're just chalk outlines to begin with. Stupid does not begin to describe this bunch. As a group they appear to be so bereft of braincells that I figure there are plankton who could beat them in a game of Snap hands down. Danny Dyer's part is such a misogynistic scumbag he's the least enthralling of the bunch, and that's saying something. By films end I found myself hoping the zombie-chicks would get them all. Possibly that's why it ends on the open note it does because maybe, just maybe, they do. Oh for happy endings such as that.
There are plot holes so big you could drive a chauffeured minibus through. There are moments (many moments) so brain dead as to be an insult to the intelligence of the average modern moviegoer. I mean really, do they expect us to buy this stuff? To be amused by it? Or even less likely, be scared by it?
This just barely got a 2 out of 10 from me. The best thing I got out of it was the knowledge that I would actively avoid watching the next thing this director & his production team puts out. Don't buy it. If you have to watch it, rent it or better still wait until it's on Pay. You'll be glad you did. That you won't feel so bad changing the channel the minute you undoubtedly get sick of it.
This is full of moments which feel like they've been literally lifted straight off a Benny Hill skit. If like a bit of Benny in your horror cinema then you will have been well and truly served. I myself found the 'idea' of the scene much more comedic than the 'actual' scene. Comedic as in "Who on earth green-lit this script and why did they think it was worth filming?". The pacing & timing of most of the film is so clumsy it makes the interview Sarah Palin did with Katie Couric ("I can see Russia from my house") seem astute.
None of the characters in this movie are worth caring about. You have no one to root for to survive this ordeal because they are on the whole, either immensely unlikeable or are so light on development that they're just chalk outlines to begin with. Stupid does not begin to describe this bunch. As a group they appear to be so bereft of braincells that I figure there are plankton who could beat them in a game of Snap hands down. Danny Dyer's part is such a misogynistic scumbag he's the least enthralling of the bunch, and that's saying something. By films end I found myself hoping the zombie-chicks would get them all. Possibly that's why it ends on the open note it does because maybe, just maybe, they do. Oh for happy endings such as that.
There are plot holes so big you could drive a chauffeured minibus through. There are moments (many moments) so brain dead as to be an insult to the intelligence of the average modern moviegoer. I mean really, do they expect us to buy this stuff? To be amused by it? Or even less likely, be scared by it?
This just barely got a 2 out of 10 from me. The best thing I got out of it was the knowledge that I would actively avoid watching the next thing this director & his production team puts out. Don't buy it. If you have to watch it, rent it or better still wait until it's on Pay. You'll be glad you did. That you won't feel so bad changing the channel the minute you undoubtedly get sick of it.