Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies first published by VODzilla.co There are some genre films whose title is also their best, even their only, asset. Think SyFy’s Sharktopus (2010) or The Asylum’s Sharknado (2013) – titles which immediately nail their films’ particular subgenre (shark film!), and which also take that subgenre for an unexpected spin (a…
First posted by Little White Lies George A. Romero may famously have kickstarted the modern cinematic zombie with his ground-breaking, Pennsylvania-set Night of the Living Dead (1968), but these days, when it comes to undead armageddon, we’re not in Pittsburgh any more. New Zealand has its Braindead, Japan its Wild Zero, Versus and countless others,…
Review first published by Sight & Sound, January 2016 Synopsis: Deer Field County, California, present day. After a janitor accidentally unleashes a zombie from a laboratory, teen boy scouts Ben, Carter and Augie set aside their differences and join forces with older stripclub cocktail waitress Denise. Under constant attack from undead townsfolk, they find out…
First published by TwitchFilm “It seems sort of like a zombie apocalypse!”, observes Deb Clarington (Maria Thayer), quickly assessing the situation around her and unhesitantly taking appropriate action where so many other heroes and heroines in this genre spend half their film just working out what’s what. Not that her savviness always pays off. “You…
I Survived A Zombie Holocaust first published by Grolsch FilmWorks “It’s a zombie film…but at its heart it’s a love story,” says nerdy novice runner Wesley (Harley Neville), trying to pitch a script to director SMP (Andrew Laing). “It also has a lot of comedic moments. It’s a horr-edy. You’re laughing one minute, you’re jumping…
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks Zack Orfman (Dane DeHaan) is grieving. His girlfriend Beth Slocum (Aubrey Plaza) was recently bitten by a snake, and died. They had been going through a rough patch at the time, were maybe even breaking up. The reason she had been hiking alone was that whenever she had asked…