Director: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell
Year: 2024
Country: Canada/France
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie; Horror/Comedy
Plot:
Living in a zombie-infested metropolis, a group of well-meaning slackers find themselves forced to take a rather dangerous extraction job to prevent the company they work for from threatening their family, but when a virus is released during the mission they must save themselves from the creatures.
Review:
This was a fairly enjoyable if somewhat problematic genre effort. One of the better elements present here is the central setup that tries to incorporate some intriguing elements into a traditional zombie storyline. The society at large here involves a means of finding a way of coexisting with returning zombies who are adjusting to living with normal people and requiring a special disposal unit that cares for zombies when they’ve turned and requires the team to deal with as a corporate overlord controlling the rest of the population. The implications present here which get revealed the longer it goes on. The unfolding plot acts like a quest for the ability to extricate themselves from a series of escalating scenarios featuring ever-more threatening plot-points which are handled with a seriousness that belies the clumsy nature the group goes through it makes for a fun time, especially with the rapid running time moving this one along as quickly as it does to a new storyline beat rather quickly.
That might be underwhelming with their comedic incompetence making everything feel less intriguing than normal. It’s through those factors that they keep getting stuck in increasingly desperate situations and it tends to downplay the comedy with everything appearing as a result of stupidity and incompetence which drags it down. While some of it’s genuinely funny, there are some problematic issues here with the inability to streamline things as having so many plots going on with the race to get the money, the quest to save the girl, the plan to infect the population so they can show the danger of the virus, and several others out there that all make the first hour feel more like a comedy than a genuine genre effort. It picks up considerably in the last half when there’s more of a focus on taking out the deranged zombies which has plenty of gore and bloodshed to like about it, but it does act a bit disjointed with its varied elements.
Overview: ****/5
A somewhat disjointed if still fun genre effort, there’s still a lot to like here even though some of the elements present might be at odds with the rest of the positives. Those who are fans of this particular style of feature, love zombie films in general, or appreciate the creative crew’s past works will find a lot to like here while most others out there should heed caution.
We Are Zombies is now streaming exclusively on Screambox.
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