Director: Martin Owen
Year: 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie; Horror/Comedy
Plot:
After the death of his mother, a lonely teen is taken unable to move on is forced to make friends which allows him to dig up recently-deceased corpses to use as a family but the more he spends with them the more he tries to keep them safe the family of corpses allows him a different life than he wanted.
Review:
This was a rather solid effort if suffers somewhat as a genre outing. The film has an entirely effective cheesy atmosphere throughout here that becomes its greatest asset, working a highly effective tone here with the spot-on satire on old-school corny tone at the sight of everything happening here. That comes from the flashbacks to the entirely goofy idea of the creatures coming to life for a fantasy-based series of encounters that maintain a highly enjoyable tone that carries on throughout here. All of the various whimsical situations throughout the second half come off quite nicely as it weaves through the secondary storyline involving the need for a person’s independence and sense of family that this one carries throughout here.
For all of this, though, the film does stumble as a genuine genre effort as the whole thing flies in the face of more traditional zombie fare. Rather than engage in the more expected flesh-ripping and entrail-munching that would be expected in these kinds of films, the zombies are treated more as ghostly imaginary friend role that is constantly undecided whether or not others can see them. Despite his insistence that they're living with him and that they're constantly around him, this one tends to go back and forth as to their existence since there's nothing about how they come back to life as he just finds them awake one morning with no hint as to how they reanimated. It comes off as the one main flaw with this one, however, so it's not a completely crippling factor as those who can buy the whimsical setup will have a lot to like with this one that might also be a factor with this one.
Overview: ****/5
A charmingly endearing if barely much of a genre film, that the main problem with this one falls under the change in presentation from the traditional values that this one utilizes is the main factor with this one. Those who are fine with the change in presentation or are curious about this one will have a lot to like here while close-minded traditionalists looking for another round of the same within the genre from this one should outright avoid it.
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