Director: Wayne Harry Johnson Jr.
Year: 2018
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie; Horror/Comedy
Plot:
Following a hockey victory, a team decides to celebrate a hotel where a zombie apocalypse breaks out in their small town forcing the team to band together with a few fellow survivors to barricade themselves off in order to escape the ravenous, bloodthirsty creatures coming after them.
Review:
For the most part, this is an incredibly disappointing zombie comedy. That this one gets started off on a nice note with a fun opening action scene which lets this one work out it's greatest aspect. This one really works best with plenty of action, bringing up the numerous confrontations with the zombies throughout here. As the creatures are out and about from the very beginning, this one offers up a series of constant encounters and ambushes as the kids being out in the open during the onslaught of appearances has plenty to like. Focusing on the briefer situations brought about by their stupidity to continue getting themselves into trouble which spurs their night on, the pace maintains quite a frantic pace here with the confrontations outside of the hotel, the residential battle inside their friends' house or the finale with the series of battles and escape attempts through the city that they engage in while trying to get away before landing at the arena for the big showdown. While it occasionally offers a nice joke or physical gag from time-to-time as well as generating a few solid gore-gags with the impressive-looking zombies, these here hold it up over it's flaws.
The biggest issue with this one is the fact that there's not a lot of actual funny comedy in this supposed mashup of the two genres. The characters here are some of the most insipid and stupid people ever, blindly rushing into situations that common sense says is completely dangerous yet doing so simply so that a zombie attack can take place which is just plain infuriating to watch the characters go through such behaviors. Seeing them stumble into a situation with a zombie and get attacked only because of their stupidity gets tiring after awhile, especially once the joke wears off that everybody ends up getting stripped down to their underwear multiple times here whether by meeting with the street thugs who rob them or wind up with the homosexual club owner who strips them down for a private show. The annoyingly overacted characters who constantly scream and shout everything they say as if the joke's funnier when said when they're yelling, causing further irritation. The overall simplicity could also be a problem for some as this one tends to overlook the reasoning for the creatures being released and just has them out, but overall it's more the comedy that tends to hold this one back.
Overview: **/5
A massive disappointment here as this one really could've been a lot of fun but instead really tends to just annoy more with a lot of un-funny comedy and some rather irritating moments here. Only give this a chance if you're a zombie-comedy completionist or just looking for a quick and easy zombie film, while those looking for more intelligent or even competent fare should heed caution.
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