Corpses Are Forever

0.2

It's like a cross between Memento, The Devils Advocate, and crap. The story is random and lame, the acting is weak, and the sound is surprisingly poor. In the middle of a scene dialogue will become way too soft or the back round noise will get really loud. The zombie makeup is passable and the scenes graced with zombies are ok, but they are too few and far between. The zombies are amusingly inept, being so slow that the principal characters always walking around them or knocking them over. Of course the real danger of zombies has always been getting swarmed.

The production value was fairly high, and the cinematography was quite competent, but no amount of fancy camerawork can save a script this poor. In fact, nothing could.

Jun 16, 2006Shambling Corpseproduct
Corpses Are Forever

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The film starts out in black and white. A guy with a British accent that comes and goes has just woken up with grievous injuries. We fallow his story for a while as he searches for the guy who kidnapped his son and left him a series of clues. Next we see a guy with a bloody nose wake up in a vintage car. Things are finally in color and we get our first sight of zombies. He wanders around a warehouse knocking over zombies with a series of painfully slow punches and kicks that never actually make contact, but luckily the zombies fall over as long as he's with in a few feet of them. Then his watch tells him a team is coming in to pull him out. Then a team of people in the green and brown army camouflage clothes come and pick him up.

A creepy old guy explains that the guy with the talking watch has been taking a serum that makes him relive the memories of somebody else but as a side effect he has amnesia. The guy who's memories he is reliving is somehow connected to the zombie plague and ensuing apocalypse. Then the old guy reveals that our man with the talking watch has a wife that he didn't know about. You know, because of the amnesia.

More poorly written plot unfurls revealing further twists and turns, and with each inevitably comes an even larger plot hole. It's like unfolding musty old linens to discover they've all been chewed through with moth holes. The watch guy keeps seeing a woman covered in blood who will give him advice and suddenly disappear. He takes the memory serum a number of times until he eventually stumbles onto the final memory of the chap with the transient British accent. It turns out the guy actually killed his own son and the guy who's leavening him the clues is actually the devil who has kidnapped his son's soul. The guy sells his own soul in exchange for his son's and this triggers the end of days, but wait - it gets even stupider. It turns out that the devil is the old guy who was explaining the memory serum. When watch man discovers this the devil appears to him and tells him that his "wife" is actually his sister, and that the two of them must have sex because, well that was never really explained, but they have to.

Watch man understandably declines and the devil ties him and the side kicks he acquired somewhere along the way to a post, and leaves them for the zombies. The phantom girl covered in blood comes and rescues them, and then appears twice more to rescue them each time they hit a snag as they try to escape. in the final scene she gives them all guns and happily skips away. Then the watch guy considers the crowd of zombies slowly advancing on them and says:
Watch Guy: "How many people are in the world"
Sidekick: "Roughly six billion. If we travel the world we should have enough shells for everybody"
Watch Guy: "I like that. Lets begin"

We are promised that the story will continue in "the corpse who loved me" should we care to watch it and the credits roll, accompanied by outtakes.

I will admit the final scene was cute but, its just not practical. assuming only five billion people became zombies each of the three members of the team would need to kill three zombies a second for 8 hours a day and do this every single day for 52.8 years. Preposterous.

Review: Dawn of the Dead (2004)

0.2

2004

runtime of 100, but there are 9 extra minutes in the directors cut.

This film is loosely based on the 1978 Romero film of the same title in the sense that they both have people seeking shelter from the zombie apocalypse in a shopping mall. After that the similarities end, which is a good thing, because it's like a brand new zombie movie, and I always like a new zombie movie. The undead makeup is stellar, the cast is strong, and story is polished. The zombies are fast, which I don't entirely approve of but, they are done so well I can't complain. This film is quite possibly the best zombie movie ever made.

May 12, 2006Shambling Corpse
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Dawn of the Dead

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Our protagonist is a nurse just getting off a long shift. She goes home, screws makes love to her husband, and falls asleep. The next morning a zombie wanders into their room and bites her husband, she locks the zombie out and tends to his wound, but it proves fatal and he becomes a zombie.

This man gives one of the best zombie performances I have seen.

Our nurse narrowly escapes and drives through the bedlam of the apocalypse until someone tries to pull her out of her car and causes her to lose control, careen down a hill and crash into a tree in the woods. Dazed she crawls from the wreck and bumps into Ving Rahmes, who plays an excellent tough guy and has a sort of Mr. T quality about him. The two of them wander around until they bump into another group of survivors, and they all decide it would be safest to hide in the mall. Three security guards who have taken over the abandoned shopping center try to kick them out and eventually settle on keeping them locked in one of the stores. Our group eventually overthrows them and locks the three of them up. Shortly thereafter a delivery truck comes careening through the parking lot and backs into the loading bay, a thrilling zombie battle ensues and soon they're all back in the mall chatting with the new band of survivors in their midst. Amongst them is a huge woman of at least 300 pounds who is on the edge of death from a zombie bite, she eventually turns and almost kills our main protagonist, the nurse.

There are two characters, a father and a pregnant woman, who were bitten somewhere along the line. In the first case, after much argument, they decide to wait with a gun and the second the father changes over they shoot him. However, no one ever finds out about the pregnant woman because her boy friend hides her in the back of one of the stores and tries to help her deliver even after she as trying to eat his skin. Eventually this kind of erratic behavior leads the only place it can - a deadly shoot out. When the smoke clears the only survivor of the debacle is the zombie baby who the rest of the mega mall refugees decide to put down. Now I myself would have studied it. Will it grow or will it decay? Does it eat flesh or does it have to grow into solid foods? Would it drink milk or blood? I mean here you have a golden opportunity to advance your scientific knowledge of zombie, and there is no risk. What's it going to do, gum you to death?

On the other side of the mall parking lot and across the street is another survivor living in a boarded up gun shop. From their respective roof tops, he and Ving Rahmes communicate via dry erase boards. The number of undead surrounding the mall continues to mount until the parking lot is a sea of oozing rotten heads. Our survivors decide it would be best to move along before they run out of food and the crowd of zombies surrounding them becomes utterly insurmountable, though it seems it may already be. The group discovers that one of their members owns a boat, and decides that reaching it and sailing to an island is their best hope. They go down to the parking garage and convert a shuttle bus into a make shift armored car. Before they're prepared to leave the guy at the gun shop runs out of food so they send over a dog with a sandwich on it's back. Why the zombies don't eat the dog, I don't know, but the girl who's father died flips out and drives over there in the tucks the second group of survivors showed up in. The guy from the gun shop got bitten trying to get the dog in the front door, so by the time the dumb girl gets there he wants to eat her brains. If stupid brains taste yucky, hers won't be any good at all. Everybody gets in the armored shuttle bus and they leave early so they can mount a rescue mission. Why bother?

They rescue the girl but only manage to travel a short distance before they are completely surrounded and can't drive. They throw a propane tank into the crowd and shoot it, the explosion knocks down the zombies it doesn't blow apart and they manage to drive on. There are further trials and tribulations and the only surviving members of the group to make it to the boat are the nurse, Ving Rhames, and a couple of characters I didn't care about. The credits roll, and interspersed throughout are clips of the surviving few as they sail about. Finally the boat pulls into dock and the camera goes dark as a horde of zombies come running toward the pier.

Review: Slither

0.2

This is not a zombie movie in the strictest sense but it does have corpses shuffling around with a hunger for flesh that cannot be slaked, so it mostly qualifies. The special effects are impressive, the acting is good and energetic, the film has a light hearted tongue in cheek feel that harkens back to the less plausible "giant man eating animal movies" of the 70's (hungry frogs, rabbits, etc).

The movie focuses on a man who has grown slimy and malevolent due to an alien parasite and the people trying to stop him. Unfortunately this draws the focus ways from the zombie horde created by the secondary parasites. These parasites share a hive mind with the slimy malevolent fellow and can be made to speak. Aside from that, they are standard zombies. If you like campy horror you'll like this film

May 9, 2006Shambling Corpseproduct

Slither

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We are introduced to all the key characters in the small town where a meteorite has struck. The Obnoxious Mayor, the wry police chief, the blond he carries a torch for, and an old guy married to the blond. The old guy starts getting frisky with his unresponsive young blond and after being rebuffed goes off to the bar where this chick starts hitting on him. They go to the woods and start making out but the old guy has second thoughts and starts to leave when he sees the meteorite. He follows a slime trail away from the meteorite to discover a giant slug which shoots something at him that burrows into his chest and finds it's way into his brain. He wakes up tells the woman he's fine and goes home to eat a bunch of raw meat. He spends a couple days acting weird and eating neighborhood dogs then goes and injects the woman from the bar with his creepy alien injector tentacles.

The police chief goes to the guys house but only his wife is home. "Hey, um... we think your husband is connected to this missing woman. If it turns out he did kill her, you'd pretty much be single again right?" (reading between the lines). When the police leave and her husband comes back, she is concerned about his new creepy injector tentacles. There is a struggle and the police chief comes back and chases away the tentacacle guy. There are reports of missing cattle over the next few days and the chief decides that he knows which farm is going to be hit next. Everybody goes and stakes the place out. They advise the farmer to keep his family inside and they all get into position. After a while the tentacle guy shows up, now he's really big and has more tentacles. His wife tries to talk him down but he cuts some dude in half and bolts.

They give chase but eventually lose him near a barn. Inside, they discover the woman from the bar who has been missing. she's surrounded by half eaten animal carcasses and her body is so ridiculously swollen it looks like a giant beach ball with a head sticking out of it. She rips open and a flood of slugs poor out and start trying to get into everybody's mouth. The cops suffer the predictable fate of peripheral characters in a horror movie. This leaves the chief the mayor and the blond. This is where the investment of your time, dear viewer, will pay dividends. Dividends in zombie. All the cops that died from slug in the mouth related causes rise and start shuffling around with blank ashen faces (totally zombie), then they start talking to the blond in unison. Apparently they share a hive mined with her husband, the large tentacles. (This is rather unzombie like.)

Meanwhile the farmer's family is beseiged by the wave of swiftly slithering slugs. All of them succumb to the enemie's superior numbers except the comely daughter who is bathing at the time (these horror movie conventions must be maintained). Just before she manages to pull one of the slugs from her mouth she catches a flash of the hive mind, and sees memories of the conquest of an alien world alongside the life of the old guy who has grown tentacles. She clothes herself and narrowly escapes from the house to seek refuge in the family car. Her zombiefied family comes shuffling out of the house and tries to get in the car. They speak, which is lamentable, but I will take my zombies where I can get them.

The police chief rescues the girl and they go to the police station. They can't call for help because the radio doesn't work, and the only thing left in the weapons cabinet is a grenade. After a close call with a zombefied deer they meet up with the mayor and the blond. They traverse the zombie infested town to confront the malevolent, tentacled force behind it. The battle goes poorly and the grenade misses its mark. Just when everything seems lost they manage to blow the guy up with a propane tank, like in Jaws, and Halloween 2, Dawn of the dead (2004) Pressurized gas tanks are just handy to have around. The death of the hive mind kills all the zombies, and our heroes all limp away victoriously, seeking medical attention (except the mayor - he was killed). At this point the credits roll and most of you would stop watching here, but lets be honest, if you were watching this film your time isn't that valuable. After the credits we see a house cat wandering amongst the gore. It starts licking a pod that opens up to reveal one of the burrowing projectiles that infected the first guy. The screen goes dark and you hear the cat yowl. One wonders what kind of invasion could be started by a malevolent alien hive mind that was led by a cat.

Happy Easter

Today is Easter, the only holiday about zombies. This is the day that Jesus came back from the dead as a zombie. He said to his apostles:
"Hey it's me Jesus"
and Thomas was like
"No way dude"
and Jesus said
"Remember just before I got nailed by the Romans I invited you all over for dinner and then I told you to eat of my blood and my flesh"
and Paul said
"dude that was just bread and wine, I thought you were doing some sort of metaphorical thingy"
and Jesus said
"Nope, it transmuted into bits of me inside your stomach. Anyway, now it's my turn. I am going to eat you "
so all the apostles died eggs pink and drew squiggly lines on them so they'd look like brains and they told zombie Jesus that they would hide them and he would have to look for them. Then zombie Jesus got tired of looking so he ate some bunnies and chicks. And that is the origin of Easter

Review: Undead

0.2
2003

Runtime of 97 minutes

I was under the impression that this film was an American horror drama, as are most Zombie films, it was in fact an Australian comedy. This shouldn't be a problem, I like Paul Hogan and his Crocodile Dundee films. I am a fan of Yahoo Serious' short but brilliant career. The problem is, this movie sucked, terribly. I always like to see a Zombie comedy, but it's important that a comedy is actually funny. The zombie makeup was fantastic, unfortunately it was squandered on a plot that had no idea where it was going and group of actors as obnoxiously over the top as Jim Carry in one of his movies that suck. But It's the ham handed execution of an underdeveloped plot line involving Aliens that gives this movie the distinction of being far worse than the average crappy Zombie flick.

Mar 19, 2006Shambling Corpseproduct
Undead

Spoiler:

The movie follows the winner of a small town beauty pageant. Meteorites rain down on her small town and turn everybody they contact into Zombies. As is always the case, the Zombies bite other people and Zombie-ism proliferates. Our protagonist wanders around for a while until some acid rain drives her into a big spooky house looking for shelter. She observes alien tractor beams abducting grass hoppers from the field outside and then meets a weird guy with a stupid hat who fights off the zombies with three shot guns he has bound together. These two meet a few other insipid survivors and they all lock themselves in a bomb shelter for a while, wander around for a bit, get caught in the acid rain again, and do the requisite zombie movie scene where they look for supplies in an abandoned store. Eventually they come to a giant wall with spikes on it that seems to go around the entire town. It is at this point that the movie starts to suck even harder. One guy tries to climb the wall, gets up a couple stories and falls to his death. His girl friend turns into a zombie and then turns back to normal for no apparent reason, and a dude gets into a small plane and tries to fly over the wall. Once he's above the clouds he sees that all the people, and presumably grasshoppers, that have been lifted into the air by Aliens and are floating there - asleep. He crashes into one and his plain goes down in a field on the other side of the wall.

Meanwhile. the Aliens come down to our protagonist and her new friend with the stupid hat, who are still standing by the wall The Aliens wave their arms around a little, talk in subtitles and leave. The wall lifts into the air and flies away all the Zombies turn back into people and everything is normal again. The gun slinging guy with the stupid had tells the beauty queen that she fought admirably and she is the guardian of this town. The guy who crashed his plane comes back as a zombie and starts biting people. We cut to the final scene, everybody in the town is a zombie and they are all crowded into a chain link fence enclosure. The Beauty queen is guarding the fence and does a soliloquy about hoping the Aliens will return and fix this. Until then she will stand guard, with her four shot guns bound together.

Review: Hide and Creep

0.22004

runtime of 85 minutes

This movie was clearly filmed on a shoe string budget, second hand shoe string. This kind of constraint resonates throughout a film - in the cinematography, film quality, sound, and most of all in the quality of thespian one has access to when they are unable to provide adequate remuneration. The zombies were the lowest common denominator of cinematic convention, wide eyed extras who’ve been painted white and had dark circles drawn around their eyes, enthusiastically stumbling around like special ed kids. I was impressed with the ambitiously large cast, but this movie could not be considered “good” by any criteria I could think of. And yet, I liked it in spite of myself. The zombie comedy is a small, esoteric sub-genre, and despite the fact that few films in this group are anything someone could be proud of, I am always glad to see a new submission to the cannon.

Mar 19, 2006Shambling Corpseproduct
Hide and Creep

Spoiler

The movie starts with a movie store clerk contemplating the merits of various zombie movies, when a remarkably lame zombie shuffles in. He kills it, by using swinging a VCR by the plug like a chain mace. He tries to report this but the receptionist at the police office says she’s the only one there and hangs up on him, so he drops the corpse off at the police station with a post-it note on its forehead. The nonchalance with which he delivers the corpse is beautiful. If you're not enjoying the movie yet, give up. The receptionist calls the deputy that is supposed to be on duty and discovers he’s out of town, so she calls her ex-cop boyfriend and asks him to come take care of it.

Meanwhile four guys from the gun club are hanging out in their cabin. They discover their generator has stopped working and the chap who wanders out into the woods to investigate suffers the predictable fate of any horror movie character who goes into the woods alone. The three remaining members of the gun club go into the woods looking for their missing comrade, and are ambushed by zombies. They split up and run away, reconvening at the cabin and grabbing their weapons. Sidekick guy, and gun club leader don’t seem to notice that dorky guy has been bitten, even though he hides this with all the exagerated subtlety of his poor acting skills. Back at the police station there is a loud thump on the roof and a guy with a stupid haircut walks in claiming to be a government agent so as to commandeer the receptionist's car.

Elsewhere, an annoying woman pesters a priest, and after she leaves he is bitten by a zombie. Later the priest eats the annoying woman and is horrified by his lapse in judgment. When he goes back to the church he discovers folks are waiting for him to give a sermon. He tells the congregation how much they suck, and then they are stormed by zombies. The priest gives a good fight but they are all eventually overcome.

The ex-cop runs into the video store clerk and asks him for a ride. The two of them go to the police station and the receptionist sends them after the government agent. The two of them, some naked man, and the spook all meet in a graveyard. They all head back to the police station and the spook is eaten shortly after they arrive. Everybody except the video store clerk leaves to aquire another vehicle. The group then heads off to find the receptionist's nieces, who have been holed up in a fortified house. Their father arrives, and turns out to be the leader and sole survivor of the gun club. They all pile into a car and the youngest of the two girls turns into a zombie and as the car swerves off the road the screen fades out. Meanwhile the video clerk is getting ready to leave the police station to seek out safer ground, but he sees that a good show is coming on TV and decides to stay a little longer. Credits roll

Review: Dead Meat

0.2This movie has some decent zombie makeup, some poor but passable acting, and some impressive locations for the budget they’re working with. However the script was flat and the whole thing left me feeling cold. The scene where they are attacked by a blood thirsty dairy cow was unacceptable.
Feb 25, 2006
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2004
runtime 80 minutes

Spoiler:
I don’t remember this movie very well. It was so lame I watched a lot of it on fast forward.

A couple is driving through the middle of nowhere in Ireland when they hit someone. They check on the hapless pedestrian and discovered he is dead, little do they know he has been this way since long before they hit him. The guy who was driving gets bitten and subsequently becomes a zombie himself. This has a deleterious effect on the couple’s relationship and the woman takes off running. She wanders through the hills for a while, then gets attacked by a zombie in an empty house where she is saved by a chap with a shovel. This fellow explains he is the local gravedigger and that a new strain of Creutzfeldt-Jakob (mad cow disease) has caused the zombies.

They find a little girl whose whole family has turned, and another couple in a jeep. All five of em’ drive around for a while and then the jeep gets stuck in the mud and surrounded by zombies. Just when it looks like it’s all over the zombies run away.

Zombies aren’t afraid of anything, so this is stupid. It turns out the fearsome adversary is a "mad cow". This is stupider. Then the cow pulls one of the women out of the car and eats her, and this is the stupidest thing in the whole damn movie. Even if it were possible for specific brain damage to make the ludicrously docile dairy cow a hyper aggressive beast, that doesn’t change the fact that not one of its four stomachs was meant to eat meat. ITS TEETH AREN’T EVEN SHAPED RIGHT!

When the cow’s hunger slacks, the remaining three are able to run for the dubious shelter of a crumbling castle (hey it’s Ireland). As the castle is surrounded a swat team arrives, and puts the girl in the back of a truck with a bunch of other survivors. Thankfully, the film is over.

Review: Feeding The Masses

Feeding The Masses

2004

This movie promises zombies and satirical political commentary and delivers... crap. The zombies are less than impressive, the budget is low, leaning heavily on poor digital effects, the sociological critique is obvious and heavy handed, and the acting is spectacularly poor.

Spoiler:

The movie opens up on a news cast about current zombie conditions, when it ends we see what’s going on in the studio and we get to know the insipid news crew. The film wastes some time on a failed attempt at character development and then the filming crew is called off to do an interview with the governor. The pothead camera man, the vacuous female anchor and the military escort all go to the capital building and find a pair of armed guards flanking a TV with a prerecorded speech. Why the governor couldn’t just send this tape to the TV station I don’t know. He launches into a speech about how the zombie threat is all but eliminated and people should continue in their day to day routine with no concern. Zombies come and chaos ensues as the television continues its erroneous claims in the midst of the carnage. At gunpoint, a spook steals a tape documenting this scene from the cameraman and the film crew goes back to the station empty handed. They all leave work for the day.

The military escort goes to scary looking guy with a big scar on his face in a creepy basement (this guy is the best actor in the movie, I suspect the scar is real because none of the makeup was that good). The military guy asks if they’ve made up the girl to look like the vacuous anchorwoman he likes. The guy with the scar assures him it’s all as he asked and sits him down in front of a peep show window. There is a woman in a blond wig who takes off her shirt and dances around and the military guy begins to “squeeze the Charmin”. Just before climax he hits a button and a zombie bursts into the room and eats the woman. Meanwhile the cameraman goes back to his apartment and chats with his sickly roommate and goes to bed. The next day when he wakes up the roommate is a zombie and the cameraman narrowly escapes. We neither know nor care what the news woman does when she leaves work.

When they all go back to the office the next day it’s being run by some guy from the government. He tells them that the fraudulent claims of safety in the governor’s speech were necessary because the economic repercussions of people not going to work and not buying things far out weighs the risk of more deaths. There is arguing and the crew leaves. The fed who has taken over the station is doing his own news cast when one of the guys who works there, patches through a live feed for our rag tag trio of protagonists, then dies and becomes a zombie, thus assuring that nobody will change the feed back. The first thing they film is an argument between a funeral director and the creepy guy with a scar. The dispute is over who gets to take away a female zombie that they have captured in a net. The funeral director has been commissioned to re-kill her and give her a proper burial. The guy with the scar presumably wants her for something unseemly. Scar face kills the funeral director and the military escort gets out of the news van and shoots him. The news crew then goes to another part of the city where the zombies are eating the people on a bus, they begin filming but the military guy knocks out the anchorwoman stuffs her into the news van and drives away. The cameraman is only momentarily distraught by his abandonment and then says “Hindenburg, baby.” and films the advancing zombie horde until they take him (even though a determined power walker could outpace them). And that is the disappointing end to the disappointing film.

Review: Dead Men Walking

Dead Men Walking (prison joke, get it?)
2005
Runtime of 82 minutes

This is by far the best zombie movie I have seen as of late. It’s basically 28 days later (not to be confused with 28 days) set in an American prison. This movie has a fairly sharp script, good acting, good production value, a very attractive female lead and an unnecessary topless woman scene (not the attractive female lead but still nice). The victims of the zombie virus cry blood (which is brilliantly creepy) and spend a great deal of time tearing out people’s intestines. This movie has everything you could ask for in a zombie flick.

Spoilers ahoy:

The movie gets right into it, starting out with a guy fighting off half a dozen zombies with a shotgun. He has a close call with the last one and when he blows its head off blood spatters on his face. He shrieks and wipes it off just as the cops burst in wrestle him to the floor and indifferently force his face into the puddle of blood from one of the zombies as they cuff him. The man is taken to a prison hacking and coughing and shortly there after vomits blood onto several people.

An attractive woman from the C.D.C. shows up to examine this man for evidence of contagion but is unable to conduct an interview because, like most undead, he cares for naught but the sweet taste of human flesh. This predilection predictably gets him shot and our comely protagonist is understandably distraught. The warden summons an inmate who was on the bus to the prison along with the un-dead and now dead-dead disease vector. The warden says: “I know you’ve escaped from every other prison you’ve been in, but that Houdini shit isn’t going to work for you here” or something to that effect and tells him a hot chick from the C.D.C. wants to talk to him.

“Yeah that dude was sick as hell. . . OH GOD DID I CATCH IT?” she assures him that she doesn’t know and sends him on his way. Shortly thereafter he escapes, not by regurgitating a set of lock picks or through some feat of MacGyver-esque ingenuity, but by beating the shit out of the incompetent guard escorting him back to his cell and stealing the keys.

By now the half a dozen guys who had blood vomited on them have gotten sick and projectile vomited on a bunch of other people - sort of like the pie eating scene from Stand By Me. Anyway, the whole lot of them have turned into zombies. The prison is locked down, nobody is allowed in or out and C.D.C. a containment team is called.

Next we witness a conjugal visit between some nameless prisoner and his wife. We’ve never seen him before and will only see him once more, when he and his lover are predictably devoured by the zombie horde. “Did you hear that? It was kind of like the anguished moans of a legion of blood thirsty undead” to which he of course responds “No baby that was probably just the air conditioner. Why don’t you take your top off”. And thus the obligatory topless woman scene, which every horror movie demands. As small bands of guards fight off zombies in their respective cell blocks our protagonist tries to make her way toward the front gate to meet and brief the C.D.C. team. She runs into the “escape artist” inmate making his anticlimactic escape and they work together.

There is an unfortunate scene in which a zombie attacks a family that was visiting the prison and the little girl is clearly laughing as the ghoul tries to get at her tasty entrails. The our hero is almost out of the prison when she runs into the recently zombified family. The little girls makeup was poorly applied as if they were afraid to get it anywhere near her eyes. The result is something of a raccoon effect which is the antithesis of scary. I don’t expect a huge amount of professionalism from prepubescent actors, but I do expect film editors to have the wisdom to cut their mediocre performances. As the main chick escapes from the family and runs to the gates waving her arms and yelling to the arriving forces, one of their snipers shoots her in the chest. Credits roll. The end kinda sucked.