Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Cortechba Overrated

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

williamagipson This movie has the worst acting, the worst dialogue, the worst effects. I kept watching it for 30 minutes hoping it would get better. It didn't. I quit watching this movie and started studying for a test I will take a month later. If all movies were this bad I would have excellent grades. The two main actors came across as unsympathetic pricks. The high point of this movie is the camel toe that one actor's love interest is showcasing about five minutes after the opening credits. Even the soundtrack to this movie is awful. This production is shoddy. If they spent for than $50.00 making this movie, the investors were seriously ripped off. I could take an MP4 video recorder and make a movie on par with this. There is a scene where a police officer is walking in front of a tractor trailer wreck as it explodes. It is clearly blue screened like a skit on Saturday Night Live. They didn't even attempt to make it look realistic. But the worst part is as the truck explodes and a fireball erupts into a mushroom cloud, the policeman keeps walking and is oblivious to anything going on behind him. Fake Fake Fake. You can only take suspension of disbelief so far. I got this movie with a free rental coupon and I still feel ripped off. This is the dumbest movie ever made and the world is dumber because it WAS made.

bababear Brothers Denton (the sensible one) and Jake (the unfocused one who will find a larger purpose in life as the story progresses) run a gas station/repair shop in a picturesque little town in Vermont. Jake has absolutely no mechanical ability or interest in doing that job, so business isn't good.They get a call to check out a pickup truck abandoned on a rural road. Walking up to a cabin they find blood all over the place and Denton is seriously injured when a zombie attacks them.Jake goes back to town and finds former girlfriend Alex, who's graduated from college and come back to town to do scientific research. They alert the sheriff.A huge wreck has blocked the only road in or out of town. They find Denton. who's a raving lunatic. Denton is locked in a jail cell (goodness knows how they got him there- his being transported happens offscreen).Denton dies unnoticed by anyone and slug-like creatures come out of his body- two exit through the space where his left eye used to be- and the invasion by these strange creatures begins in earnest.The people aren't zombies in the classic sense, but you don't know what else to call them. One nice little old lady was bitten by her dog and she suddenly turns homicidal at a bingo session, biting the arm of her friend who just called bingo.Soon there are zombie teenagers, at least one zombie dog, and zombie grannies running the streets.It's up to Jake and Alex and a small band of survivors to save the day before the monsters overrun their town. Along the way Jake will rediscover his feelings for Alex and, almost miraculously, finally understand how to work on the engine of a commercial Chevy van.Credit writer/director Damon Lemay with not taking this too seriously. He has a limited budget, most of which goes for some really nasty special effects makeup. The story borrows from many sources, from EAST OF EDEN to NIGHT OF THE CREEPS. LeMay dares to have fun with the material, and he has some surprisingly good performers to do his bidding.The character called Randy could have been a one-dimensional macho killing machine who comes in handy in a bad situation. A manic young actor named Dennis Lemoine takes the part and runs with it. He plays the character as having incredibly bad hair (as do most of the male characters) and has a field day kicking zombie butt from one end of town to the other.Once people have been taken over by the parasites there's no coming back for them, so he cheerfully dispatches people he's known all his life- including his Aunt Ruth and his third grade teacher- making wisecracks all the while.The monsters are finally defeated by a plot device borrowed from THE DEAD PIT that wipes out the vast majority of the monsters. As Jake and Alex- the lone survivors- walk into the sunset there's some ambiguous movement in the foreground that sets us up for Zombie Town 2.I'll be looking forward to it.Parents' note: This richly deserves the R rating. Graphic and gross violence, profanity, and a rather surprising nude scene.

em89072002 Thought this was going to be a horror movie, but it is more of a horror spoof along the lines of FEAST or SLITHER although not as good as either of those movies. The story is pretty generic: boy meets girl, then boy meets zombie, zombies proliferate and wreck havoc, boy and girl kill zombies and live happily ever after. Yet, in this movie everyone other than the zombies appear to be braindead. There is not much new here except the actors who appear to be relatively unknown, and if this is any indication of their talent they'll likely remain unknown for a long time to come. In several of the scenes the characters had delayed responses and exhibited schizoid behavior to the unfolding events which initially was just awkward but became progressively annoying as these stilted performances continued. Not only couldn't the actors handle their lines, but they couldn't even handle the props. Check out how awkwardly the lead actor handles the shotgun; it's surprising he didn't point the muzzle at his own face. The special effects in this film are really lame. Some elements (like the leeches) appeared to be low budget knock-offs of flicks like SLITHER while other aspects (like the oozing blood) seemed to be borrowed from a third grade science project ---like those artificial volcanos that ooze a mixture of baking soda, vinegar and food coloring.At some point in the production everyone involved must have realized that this wasn't going to work as a horror film so they started to throw in everything from bare breasts to bad jokes --- the problem is that they forgot to make the jokes funny (the breast were pretty lame too). Here, a laugh track would have helped to cue the viewer into when a joke had been told. Like, oh --- now I'm surposed to laugh --- good to know, thanks.Overall it's a bad movie, but it gets three stars because it is somewhat entertaining as a horror spoof.

lost-in-limbo Jake and his brother Denton have taken over their father's garage business, and they called upon a job to pick up an abandon vehicle out near the woods. It belongs to some locals camping in the woods, so before taking it, they check if they are still in the area, but they come across a cabin with dead corpses and one feral occupant with a craving for flesh. This starts some sort of strange infection, where his brother was bitten and suddenly it's effecting the whole tight-knit community. With no noway out of the town, because of a massive accident blocking there only way out. It's up to Jake, his ex-girlfriend Alex who has just arrived in town and cynically gun-proud Randy to stop what seems to be mysterious parasites turning the local citizens into blood-thirsty zombies, before they escape into the wider population.Nice! I'm glad I took the chance with this quite recent low-budget zombie splatter treat. Before getting it, I had it in and out of my hands, but I thought what the hell and it turned out rather enjoyable. All the prominent staples (and influences) are there; nauseating gore, flash of nudity, shots to head, zombie munching and icky zombie make-up effects. Romero's legacy definitely shines through, but the use of parasites brought up the 80's horror film "Night of the Creeps". Which I think this one owes a lot to. On that point, I see it playing out more like a homage, then a plain rip-off. Sure the senselessly blunt and token story is derivative with it's same old plot devices and developments (nothing like zombie slug-fest to ignite two old flames), but a thick dose of telegraphed morbid humour and smart-laced one liners were a welcoming inclusion. The plot doesn't matter too much. Comic cheese basically fills the amusing script, always timing itself for its next snappy one-liner and unbelievably ridiculous reactions. The origin and intentions of the parasites are cloudy drawn up, which might be a downer for some.Damon Lemay keeps the action pretty lively with many grisly details and few suspenseful jolts that do work, even with the surprisingly workable mock attitude to proceedings. Make-up effects are well captured, and while the computer generated effects look dodgy (truck accident), but they don't do any harm and are truly forgotten when the unpleasant zombie action breaks out. Camera-work sometimes can get trapped on zoom, but its frenetic style has control. Some interesting colour filtering strikes up some atmospheric visuals, and the adjustable soundtrack mixes it's country twang with heavy metal aching to the suitability of the scene. The performances might be amateurishly overacting, but they brought the right feel to their characters. The leads weren't bad. Dennis Lemoine gives the film it's punch with his dry remarks and gung-ho approach as Randy. Adam Hose in a blithely restraint turn is agreeable as Jake and Brynn Lucas is plays the gorgeously brainy chick Alex with decent amount of aplomb.Not bad, not bad at all. "Zombie Town" might not be original and one to ponder on, but this fodder is enthusiastically made by genre fans who have seen too many zombie films and there's nothing wrong with that. This Indie film is well worth a look.