This movie is bad, but I knew that would be the case going in. What I didn't know, however, is that it wasn't going to be like funny bad; it was just going to be sort of bad-bad. It had all the usual low budget identifiers: horrible acting, bad writing, random topless scenes. In addition to these symptoms, however, it just wasn't engaging. It was too silly and not in a good way. My personal favorite moment was when two frat zombies started talking: "Come on, Jimmy. We're frat brothers. We share everything." "Including internal organs!". I almost turned it off right there. Zombies should never, ever speak...not even to say "brainssss".
I'm not saying this flick doesn't have some of the fun of a bad, campy movie (it certainly does), but at times it crosses the line into just plain stupid and honestly kind of boring. My last negative comment would be that some of the "conceptual" stuff was super dumb or irritating. For example, one of the zombies is basically just a corpse who spends the last 20 minutes trying to hitchhike to the rave. Ridiculous and not funny. But worse than that was the choice to shoot an entire scene with a strobe light. Now that was just flat out irritating.On a positive note, the zombie makeup was very nice, and the blood effects were usually pretty realistic looking and gross. My personal favorite was when a zombie bit a guy's cornrow off of his head. Delicious. While the dialogue and acting were horrible, the plot was at least somewhat original (the idea of idiot teenagers accidentally selling a rave drug that turns people into zombies), and it followed the plot as logically as it possibly could have. The two INTERPOL agents were kind of funny, but also just kind of randomly casted.
Overall, it was pretty much the usual SyFy Saturday offering. Maybe a smidgen worse. There are much better campy zombie movies...but I would suppose there are also probably worse ones out there. Not many, but some. I'd say skip it, really...unless you're as bored and lazy as I am.
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