Director: Josh Monkarsh
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie; Horror/Comedy
Plot:
After a viral outbreak hits Los Angeles, a group of friends hiding out in their house while hordes of zombies gather on the streets outside are shocked when his ex-girlfriend is also stranded at the house which starts their attempt to get back together while the encroaching undead complicates matters for them.
Review:
This was a pretty fun and enjoyable genre effort. One of the finer features here is the stellar sense of comedic interplay that comes about the more this goes along. The starting point here with the invasion taking place and the inability to process everything as the one friend is stuck in the post-relationship stupor means a lot of the situations here are quite genuinely funny with the way they react or comment on things. The more they hang out together trying to survive the situation and the more things escalate, this becomes funnier and features a nice bit of branching out from the quirky roommate comedy to a slew of relationship jokes and a hint of slapstick as well while they try to fend off the creatures. With this one going for a heartwarming relationship struggles to carry itself on for a solid secondary storyline, this provides quite a lot to like about it.
There are some issues here holding this one down. The main issue with this one is the highly underwhelming sense of zombie action here which is kept to brief comedic punchlines more than anything. There's not a whole lot of their encounters and confrontations that serve as a joke with the group swarming the jogger while in the middle of a news broadcast, attacking the girls in the car while they're discussing potential escape plans, or coming back to attack after supposedly finding a cure for everything, the film treats the zombies more as a punchline than than anything when they do occur since their total screen-time manages to last only around five minutes at most. This could be a massive issue for those wanting more of a presence from the creatures and is what holds this back the most.
Overview: ***/5
A solid relationship comedy with zombies involved, that the main issue here being a lack of the zombies in a zombie film might be something difficult to look past makes this a somewhat challenging genre effort. Those who are fine with that factor or are fans of the style here will have a lot to like here while more ardent zombie fanatics or those turned off by the approach might want to heed caution with this one.
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