Now this is a choice piece of crap. US regional filmmaking at its most frightening. You probably know what that means: No camera movement that I know of, "acting" that cries out for its own special kind of award (watch "Sarah" scream every single one of her lines; or "Kiyomi" whine each of hers) and plotting that would rather like to be called plodding are only the greatest of this film's many charms.
After forty-four minutes of six bickering nincompoops traipsing through a wood (they are on a hunting and camping trip, you see), the hunters and hunterettes are attacked by very dead confederate soldiers who are still pissed off about the civil war. Well, they were tortured to death by the evil union soldiers (yes, the film is from Maryland, why do you ask?), so they do have a point.
And are these zombies ever beautiful! Not only do their uniforms look, well, like bad Halloween costumes, they also show a puzzling love for wearing lumberjack shirts underneath. The horde also is very multi-zombie-racial: You've got your run of the mill mime make-up zombies, your cheap Halloween mask zombies and even a few "let's put some of this stuff from Mum's cupboard to good use" zombies, all working hand in hand to munch a few guts. The shamblers really need the teamwork, too. Seldom have I seen a group of living dead people that is worse at killing the living - effective biting doesn't seem to be their forte, which is not that surprising in the Halloween mask zombies who just can't move their mouths, but a little disconcerting coming from the others.
But when they finally kill some humans we're treated to an absolutely epic gut-munching scene. It goes on for ten? twenty? minutes and is full of the most interesting knowledge about human anatomy. I honestly didn't know I had so many fascinating things inside of me. Say, are those...sausages? Garlic? You should cook that stuff.
These zombies are also very, very loud when they're munching - some of their munch-sounds are absolutely priceless.
I nearly forgot to mention another interesting feature you'll see in these zombies: Explosive heads! There's none of that mere splattering of goop you know from other zombies. No, the beautiful creatures here have heads that are exploding just like firecrackers - one could even suspect there are firecrackers in barely head-like paper cones used to simulate exploding heads, but I'm sure that is merely a conspiracy theory I developed to conquer the traumata of my childhood.
So yeah, this is a treat.
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