While shooting a low-budget film, the cast and crew of a horror film must deal with a tyrannical director while also coming under attack by a zombie outbreak. However, when the truth is revealed about the shooting format, everything they know becomes chaos.
Overall, this is a fine if generally unimportant genre effort. What really looks good here is the solid visual aesthetic employed throughout here, with the much grander sense of scope shown here in the location scenes during the filming allowing for a smoother and much bigger sense of spectacle than what would be expected. There's an energy to these scenes that allows for a highly enjoyable time where the absurdity of the situation comes into play quite prominently with the means of how the twist gets unraveled and utilized quite effectively with the combination of effective camera work and stunts that look pretty nice. The jokes are usually effective and have a great bit to like overall as well, but it ends up highlighting the main issue to be had here in being a horrible remake of a great film. The film's slick approach and generally professional sheen wipe out what made the original so effective and likable. Filling in the low-budget charm and rough edges that made it seem more believable how to cut corners and use what you have around you to pull off the ingenious work being accomplished before the cameras is a completely misguided approach to the point of the original and misses the mark completely. That makes the film come off completely opposite of what it's intended to be like and really undoes the good work established here if you don't know much about the original.
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