Movie Review - Train To Busan

Train To Busan

2016

The Cast

I had this movie sitting on my "YouView" box for quite a few months, even though I had been originally excited that Film4 had decided to air this "little" Korean gem of a horror movie. There had been rave reviews and more than a slight "buzz" about the picture. The trouble with me is that I've been let down by hyped movies before - The Blair Witch Project, a major case by example. Another trouble is my own little foibles. I don't want to be reading subtitles when I'm tired (and I do so love to watch horror flicks after the sun has set with the lights low... or off!) and I cannot stand dubbed films (too many Jackie Chan movies in my youth...). So one night, not so very long ago I was feeling awake enough to read a movie so I hit play on "Train To Busan"...

By the time the end credits rolled I was amped up and wide awake. This is one hell of a rollercoaster ride of a movie and one hell of a tangle of modern-day lives story. This is not your basic Zombie flick.

You start out really slowly and pretty sedated. A farmer is on his way to the market when his van is stopped by men in hazmat suits. These tell him that there's nothing to worry about. There has been a slight leak at a chemical plant. After quickly decontaminating his vehicle they send him on his way... unluckily for the dear he runs down and kills. More angry at damaging his van than killing a dear he drives away leaving the carcass in the road... yeah... you know what's going to happen. Sure enough, the dead animal thrashes about and shakily gets to its feet... with a dead look in its eyes...

Even though this section only takes a few minutes it's one of the most superbly shot sequences I've seen in a movie. The director Yeon Sang Ho manipulates each set perfectly give the audience a creepily eerie atmosphere, which did start the shivers running up and down my spine. For that I thank them... it's been a long time since that's happened. There's nice steady sweeping camera pans. Effortlessly worked lighting. Superb control of sound... or lack of it. Even better is that all of this artwork and skill doesn't stop here it runs throughout the whole movie. It screams skill and class
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Then the writers, Park Joo Suk and Yeon Sang Ho, get to work weaving together tales of modern-day living. The main characters are Seok-Woo (Gong Yoo) and his daughter Soo-Ann (Kim Su An). He is a busy, work-comes-first-to-support-family guy who was already lost his wife to divorce and is now bringing up Soo-Ann, with the help of his mother. Soo-Ann is a young child who doesn't understand or appreciate her father's outlook on life. All she knows is that she doesn't see either him or her mother as much as she wants or should. She wants more time with both of her parents. So, on her birthday, after her dad buys her a repeat present (who doesn't need two Nintendo Wii's(?)) she gets him to promise to take her to see her mum for her real present. As is the usual case it's Su-An Kim's performance that steals the show - and this is as it should be.

This then brings them into contact with Sang-Hwa (Ma Dong Seok) and his very expectant wife Seong-Kyeong (Jung Yu Mi). Sang-Hwa and Seok-Woo do not get on at all and it's this juxtaposition in ideals and prerogatives that add more depth to the story; especially when they have to work together to survive the train ride. It's Seong-Kyeong that provides the glue to their relationship.

Add to this a mysterious homeless man (Choi Gwi Hwa), a couple of romantic teens getting to grips with their feelings towards each other - Yong-Guk (Choi Woo Sic) and Jin-Hee (Sohee), and officious self-centred train manager Yon-Suk (Kim Eui Sung), you have a set of characters which can create some volatile or sentimental storylines... and this is before we get to the best Zombies... EVER!

One of my favourite zombie flicks is Return Of The Living Dead. Two of the reasons were the zombies - they were dead and very icky (most were skinless)... and they were fast. The brain-eating buggers didn't shamble after you. And you have the same here. Though these dead aren't so skinless they are damned fast and furious.

This adds to some pretty spectacular action scenes in the movie which Yuen Sang Ho directs magnificently. But, whereas, most directors would opt for action over horror and story Yuen is proficient in all styles. The scenes where the dead reanimate are both startling, invigorating, eerie, and full of style and strength.

This is a tour-de-force of filmmaking, let alone horror filmmaking. Everything in this movie is excellent, from the story to the acting to the directing. This was nearly a 10 out of 10, however, because some of the scenes get a little cheesy or stereotypical (for me) I rated it a little less.

To all movie fans out there and horror fans alike - this is a must watch movie.

I give this movie a Ferocious Bite Of Excellency of 9.75 out of 10.

The Trailer

This is the dubbed English trailer and shows how a film can suffer with voice overs.  This is now the reason I watch subtitled movies.

Here's the subtitled version.  Amazing how much better it already appears in its natural language and voices.

Movie Review - The Night Of Something Strange

The Night Of Something Strange

2016

Production Companies:  Hurricane Bridge Entertainment, Duke Studios, SRS Cinema, Virtual IntaActive Inc., White Lightning Productions

After all the Zombie films that are stagnating the genre it was a breath of fre... er... fetid and decaying air to watch this movie.  Zombies are now starting to move out of the horror genre and starting to appear in drama's like The Walking Dead - that's right I called it a drama, which it mainly is as it deals with everyday issues and the Zombies are just a secondary encumbrance for the survivors.   They have also appeared in sci-fi where once again they have been relegated from the scary to the infected.  So when this film placed the Zombie back on the major scary list I was over the moon.

I also have to give the writers Ron Bonk, Mean Gene, and Jonathan Straiton (who also directed) a big thank you for kicking the story in the political correct bollocks as this film makes even the darkest matters humorous.  These Zombies are driven by sex and not a hunger for eating flesh and brains.

All hell begins to break out when a caretaker at a morgue takes an interest in one of the females on the slab.  After a little necrophilic love, he goes to finish off his work for the night.  If he had paid attention to the medical chart he would've seen she had died from an unknown sexually transmitted disease.  From then on, anyone he bumps uglies with becomes infected and gets the sexual craving.  One of my favourite scenes is when one of the young men returns to his motel room and finds his girlfriend passed out on the bed.  The trouble is that it isn't his girlfriend but one of his male buddies.  The hilarity reaches fever pitch after the copulation has ended and a sheriff is banging on their door.  Unable to disengage himself he has to drag his friend across the bed.  I was laughing so hard I nearly wet myself.  The dark humour in this movie is superb.

One of the things making this an above average horror is the direction as Straiton creates a nice rollercoaster ride of pace and has a brilliant ability to give the comedic moments the correct timing to add wallop to the punchline; there are also some nice camera shots and differing camera angle which make it a visually interesting movie.  The other plus is the quality of the acting, which I was happy to observe was above average.  There are some scenes that are a little hammed up, though I believe this was intentional as it fits perfectly with the feel of the film.  Another plus is the special effects, which are more than possible.  The Syphilis that start to eat away at the zombies is pretty yucky to look at and is a great idea.

So if you aren't too worried about sexual and graphic content and love non-politically correct comedy with a lot of dark humour then this film is for you.  It's also nice to see the Zombies back in the horror seat.  This is now one of my favourite horror and comedy films, though I can understand why you will either love it or hate it.

Video Nasty - Andy Warhol's Flesh For Frankenstein

Andy Warhol's

Flesh For Frankenstein

1973

Compagnia Cinematografica Champion / Braunsberg Productions / Carlo Ponti Cinematografica / Rassam Productions / Yanne Et Rassam

Bryanston Distributing / EMI Distribution / Image Entertainment / Tartan Video Limited

6.25 / 10

Oh, my God!  This movie is magnificent in its badness.  A true masterpiece of awfulness.  This is the epitome and the complete definition of a bad movie.  This is the type of movie you can enjoy even though it's far from perfect.

For example, there's a scene where Udo Kier, Baron Frankenstein, is telling his servant Otto, played by starey-eyed Arno Juerging (does he even blink(?)) about his days as an assistant, "I had to clean out all the toilets before I could stick my nose into the laboratory!"  Except, due to Kier's accent, "laboratory" sounds live "lavatory".  Brilliant.

Another positive is that this is a cross between the old lavish Hammer Horror movies and the visceral Italian gorefest and it works really well.  There is not one scene where you cannot see everything, though there are times you wish you weren't seeing it.  Especially when the Baron likes playing with the female Zombies innards too much and poor Otto has to keep wiping his brow.  Even though you think this is wrong it only gets worse.

Even when you think the only one who is remotely sane is the Baron's wife, brilliantly portrayed by Monique Van Vooren, even she tips her toes into the darker side of sexual kinkiness.  I can fully understand why this one got the BANNED stamp, though they are done so gloriously you see it as funny or erotic.

The story is a pretty decent one though.  The Baron is looking to reincarnate humans into Zombies and with the sole purpose of procreating and building a super-race of Serbians.  Through his strict guidelines, he procures his body parts for looks and sexual prowess.  These Zombies will give him the perfect children he always wanted and he will have control over them all.  This allows the writer to create some good individual characters, though writing, acting, and direction aren't perfect because each personality is different it helps to keep the viewer watching the screen.  I especially loved the male Zombies attitude and logic at the end of the story.

The special effects are up to the usual Italian standards.  Even though the decapitation isn't too realistic, you have to give the FX crew big respect because the eyes blink and move, which they will do because a head can remain conscious for a minute after being removed.  There are lots of guts and oodles of bright red blood (much too bright to be real).

All of this mixed in with some nudity and you have a marvellous exploitation movie.

This is a MUST WATCH for all who love bad b-movie horror flicks.  I cannot believe it's taken me so long to find this one, though now I have I will be watching it again and again with a smile on my face and a chortle in my throat.  Good on ya' Mister Warhol...

Nergling - The Video Nasties Scare - Andy Warhol's Flesh For Frankenstein

Movie Review - Zombies Have Fallen

Zombies Have Fallen

2017

Infinity Film Company : Green Apple Entertainment

2 / 10

With a title such as this, I was looking forward to a parody of Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen movies.  An agent on the attack against an enemy that outnumbers the good guys.  This is, on one level, what you get; on another level, it doesn't come anywhere near the standards of the Hollywood movies.

Don't get me wrong, I know this was made on a shoestring budget as it's painfully obvious when you watch it.  Some of the locations are dire.  There's an opening scene where the director of the pharmaceuticals company who is holding Kyra to observe her psychic powers, gets into a lift.  This appears to be a grimy car park lift they used one Sunday morning when no one was around.  The director's office is a small room with crappy office tables and nothing on the walls... maybe he sold the stuff to make the film(?)

The zombie effects are also very weak and could have been done by the actors themselves as there are quite a few varying designs; the best by far being...

...and you only see her for a few seconds.

Sam Fountayne, who directed and wrote (under the pseudonym Sam Hampson), gives the audience a run of the mill film with no special or attractive camera shots or angles.  Along with the cast's below average acting skills, it makes the movie bland and boring, even when the action hits the screen.  This is a shame as the premise of the story could offer the viewer an entertaining hour and a half if everything had been done better.

A girl with psychic powers has been discovered, she is taken to a laboratory where she is watched and trained to utilise her talents to her best ability.  She arranges a breakout and all hell ensues as the company try to recapture their number one asset...  Wait a minute that sounds all too familiar...

Ah... That's right...

Watch Stephen King's Firestarter with Drew Barrymore and Keith David rather than this.  There are no zombies in Firestarter though the premise is the same as Zombies Have Fallen.  However, the director can direct and the actors can act pretty well, oh yeah Stephen King can write one hell of a story.

Another good thing is the poster for the film, though I cannot help but think they knew how bad the movie was so they altered the title from Bad Blood, to make use of the popularity of the "----- Has Fallen" movies.

I actually prefer the Zombies poster, it's a little more dynamic - so yay for the artists.

It's a shame this film wasn't given the cash influx it deserved as it could have been so much better.

Video Nasty - Dead And Buried

Dead And Buried

1981

Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance

Embassy Pictures / Vestron Video / Blue Underground

7.5 / 10

Oh my God, this was so nearly a perfect horror film...  So what went wrong?

This starts off brilliantly with the titles which give the audience the feel of a classy and elegant movie.  This is a bold move for a horror but the director, Gary Sherman knew exactly what he was doing.  Sherman continues this ambiance into the opening scene of a photographer snapping piccies of driftwood and fishing tackle.  He is joined on the beach by the beautiful Lisa (played by Lisa Blount) and after a few flirtations she removes her blouse and asks if she could be a model.  As the photographer closes in for a romantic clinch...

This is when all hell breaks loose...  I cannot say anything else otherwise "Spoilers" - and we don't like them do we.

The opening sequence does a fantastic job of drawing in the viewer in and making them wonder just what the hell is going on in the little seaside village of Potter's Bluff.  It's up to Sheriff Dan Gillis (strongly portrayed by James Farentino) to solve the murders and the mysteries behind them.  Coroner William G Dobbs (splendidly played by Jack Albertson) is helping him with his investigations.  These are the main two characters in the movie and are well crafted with their own personal attributes and qualities making them likable and relatable.

The writers, Jeff Millar, Alex Stern, who wrote the story based on a Chelsea Quinn Yarbro novel, and screenwriters Ronald Shusett and the skillful Dan O'Bannon, give the Zombie mythos a new spin.  Along with special effects wizard Stan Winston they all create a tangible tension and eeriness that adds to the power and atmosphere of the movie.

Then the reveal comes... 

...and everything falls apart.

Suddenly the strong personality of Sheriff Gillis becomes that of a screaming and wailing weak-willed person; the off-beat Dodds becomes comically insane; Gillis' wife Janet (played by Melody Anderson) falls apart mentally; and the story ends with a whimper rather than a scream.  This ending makes a brilliant movie a mess and a shambles.

However, it's still worth watching for the earlier part of the film and not the last ten minutes.  I now want to find a copy of the novel to read to see if this ending is also the book's finale... it may work better in words and in imagination than it does on film.

Video Nasty - Anthropophagous

Anthropophagous

(1980)

AKA The Beast

AKA The Savage Island

AKA Antropophagus

Filmirage / Produzioni Cinematografiche Massaccesi (PCM) International : Film Ventures International / 88 Films / Cinefear

7 / 10

I originally watched this on SKY a few years back and I enjoyed it then as I did this time around.

That's right I said I enjoyed it and judging by low scores on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, I think I'm in the minority.

The worst thing about this film is the soundtrack.  To say it's dreadful would be doing an injustice to the term understatement.  There are a couple of scenes where the music sets the mood perfectly... but it is only a couple.  The rest of the time the audience is assailed with a manic Wurlitzer pianist - I actually had a vision of an old time theatre (back in the silent movie days) and a man, half-crossed between The Phantom Of The Opera and The Joker, going insane of the ebony and ivories... all it lacked was a maniacal laugh.

Apart from that what the writers Joe D'Amato (Director) and George Eastman (Actor) give the audience is a new take on both the Cannibal and Zombie legends, by giving you Nikos Karamanlis, a man turned beast who is something other than alive and with a penchant for human flesh.  He acquired this evil and unnatural taste after he and his family were shipwrecked... when you're miles from anywhere and starving you have to eat.

This is so much better than his follow on movie Absurd, which also fell foul of the dreaded Video Nasty title and banning.

The acting is above average.  Tisa Farrow (Mia Farrow's sister) who gave a well-disposed portrayal of Julie, a student on her way to a Greek island and summer job.  Along with Saverio Vallone who gives an affable portrayal of Andy, the unheralded leader of the group, these two hold the film together.  Even the mostly silent Eastman as The Beast does a decent job of being menacing and actually uses his size and facial features to add power and unease (wish he'd done the same in Absurd)

For the time the effects are more than passable, the only let down is Eastman's "Beast" face as it looks like somebody has spilt cold porridge over him.  Most of the dead look nasty enough, with decaying skin and maggots writhing in eye sockets.  The scene with the rats would have looked more realistic had they not covered a skeleton in spam... they could have added more blood to disguise the fact - go Herschell-Lewis on them.

One thing that did impress me is most of the scenes are shot in daylight and D'Amato still builds a sense of tension and unease.  The scene where Arnold is looking for his pregnant wife Maggie and stumbles into a clearing by a ruinated abbey sent a shiver down my spine.  You can actually feel something watching him.

There is more to this film than I originally thought and I would recommend it to all horror fans who haven't seen it yet.  And I will be watching this again in the future.

Nergling - The Video Nasties Scare - Anthropophagous

Movie Review - Dead Heat

Dead Heat

(1988)

Helpern/Meltzer : New World Pictures / Anchor Bay Entertainment / Image Entertainment

7.25 / 10

This was a rare treat to watch.  I had forgotten how good and funny this little horror comedy thriller is.

This is a buddy-buddy cop tale that takes a walk on the Darkside.  While in a shootout with a couple of jewellery store robbers they are amazed when the bad guys just won't lie down dead even though they're dancing a Spandau Ballet in a hail of bullets.  It takes a hand-grenade and a speeding car to bring them down.

It's not until they get the bodies into the morgue that they realise they have already been autopsied...

This is one of the best and funniest Zombie films around.  Back in the glorious '80's the special FX really did go the extra mile.  The scene in the Chinese butcher's shop is hilarious and gruesome as the dead animals come back to life.

However, not everything about this movie is fun.  Around the half way mark the film slows down and the laughs start to disappear... in fact, the story pretty much stops.  It does pick up in the last fifteen minutes of the film but never quite reaches the highs of the first half of the movie.

Both of the lead roles, Treat Williams as Roger Mortis and Joe Piscopo as Doug Bigelow, work well together and this chemistry works well and pretty much holds the film together.  It's when these two aren't together that the movie suffers.  Most of the comedy moments are where these two are working off each other.

Both Darren McGavin (of "Kolchack: The Night Stalker" fame) as Dr Ernest McNab and Vincent Price as Arthur P Loudermilk are underused.  These two could have been utilised a little more in the second half of the film, this may have helped the lift the movie here, making it a little less boring.

Mark Goldblatt, does a good job of utilising the lead actors and bringing out some really good dark comedic moments.

I'd recommend this to anybody who has a dark sense of humour and likes everything horror and Zombi.  Still one of my favourites of the '80's even with the stale second half... it has a special place in my heart.

Video Nasty - Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

(1974)

Original Title - Non Si Deve Profanare Il Sonno Dei Morti

AKA - The Living Dead

AKA - The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue

AKA - Do Not Profane The Sleep Of The Dead

AKA - Don't Open The Window

Star Films SA / Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche : Anchor Bay Entertainment / Blue Underground

7.75 / 10

As you can see the film goes under many names though I chose the "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" as this is the translation of the original Italian and better suits the film than all the rest.  However, I believe that "The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue" is one of the most popular names used - once I'd watched the film I thought the title misleading as we never get to the Manchester Morgue.

This is definitely a film of its time and not just for the low budget or dodgy acting but for the context.  The dead reanimator is an experimental low-frequency radiation emitting pest controller, which our anti-hero keeps telling people that they shouldn't trust it.  We also shouldn't trust the police to do their job correctly.  I remember these being the underlying feelings of quite a few people in the 1970's.  It's a shame it got banned because it could have had quite a following for these ideologies alone.

What you have is your standard fare of Italian horror, though this time, transferred into the English countryside.  If you were in doubt that this is England the Director punches it home in the opening sequence as our anti-hero, George Meaning (Ray Lovelock) rides through the countryside on his Norton.  When he pulls into a garage for supplies our heroine Edna (poor lass) Simmonds (Cristina Galbo) reverses into the Norton in her Mini.  From here on out they are pretty much joined at the hip as he commands her to take him to Windermere because it's the least she could do... then he jumps into the driver's seat since he doesn't want to go there in reverse.

George is a bullish man who likes to command everybody and isn't afraid to speak out and let everybody know how he feels.  There are sometimes that you would love to hit this guy for being so rude, though most of the time it made me giggle.

As with most Italian Horror Films, the dubbing is pretty atrocious, however, it does give it a strange kind of ambience, maybe I've watched too many and I've grown fond of the sub-genre.  Jorge Grau does a satisfying job of bringing the story, wrote by Sandro Continenza and Marcello Coscia, to the screen.  He creates nice tension as the film progresses.  You can feel the uneasiness that Edna feels when she first sees the dead homeless man Guthrie Wilson for the first time.  This scene reminded me of Romero's Night Of The Living Dead, though it's not a rip-off more of a tribute as the rest of the film try to add something to the Zombie folklore, such as the way other cadavers can be resurrected.

On the whole, the acting is okay, though the dubbing does detract from the actor's skills because their voices don't feel like they're their own.  The only character who appeared to have his own voice was The Inspector.  The trouble was that Arthur Kennedy who portrayed him is American and his accent was a mix of Irish, Scottish, and American, he never quite landed on just one.  This made his character unintentionally humourous at times.

I've always like the Italian FX as they really know how to deliver the gory goods.  For me, the tearing apart of the Hospital Nurse come receptionist was the best.  There were rumours of a scene where a Zombie eats an eyeball, I think this is the church scene; a policeman is food for the zombies and you see his face sans eye, then you get a shot of Granny-Z popping something into her mouth, though you don't see what.  It would have been so good to have that shot.

All-in-All it's not a bad movie though it has its flaws it's still worth a watch.  If only half the horrors today were like this then I'd be happy.

Nergling - The Video Nasties Scare - The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue

Movie Review - Wicked Little Things

Wicked Little Things

(2006)

Millennium Films / Nu Image / Sandstorm Films : After Dark Films / Sony Pictures Entertainment / Lionsgate Home Entertainment

7.75 / 10

The main reason to watch this film would be the story as it gives a refreshingly fresh take on the Zombie genre.

The Carlton's had owned the land for generations. On that land were forests, houses, and a mine.  Deep in the mine were buried the Carlton's darkest injustice.  But some transgressions don't stay buried...  These ones are on the hunt for retribution.

The Carlton's used child labour down in their mine and one day an avoidable incident caused the deaths of most of the youngsters.  Carlton was cleared of any wrongdoing and was never prosecuted for the deaths.  The event was ruled a tragic accident.

Wanting revenge, the children now walk the woods looking for Carlton and his bloodline...

Enter Karen (Lori Heuring) and her two daughters, Sarah (Scout Taylor-Compton) and Emma (Chloe Grace Moretz), who move into a property on Carlton land.  The house had been left to their husband and father, who had passed away leaving them in enough debt that they had to sell their home.  The house is one of the most oppressive I've ever seen.  It's dark and foreboding.  The door is open and blood has been painted on the door.

It's not long before Emma has made a friend in Mary...  The trouble is, nobody else can see Mary.

The director, J S Cardone (of The Slayer - reviewed on this blog) does a winning job of creating atmosphere, tension, and suspense at all the right times in the movie.  The night scenes in the moonlit woods are lovely, verging on beautiful, they do give an eerie feel to the location and situation.  However, as I stated in the review to The Slayer, it appears he also likes dark houses.  It's actually brighter outside in the woods by moonlight than it is in the house with all the lights burning.  It's just as annoying here that the light of an electric bulb only radiates a couple of feet.  There are some wonderful iconic and haunting shots of the children in their miner's garb carrying their work tools, which they use to dispatch anybody they run into.

The actors all give good performances, though, at times, both Ben Cross as Aaron Hanks and Martin McDougall as Mr Carlton ham it up, but they do reign in the piggies after a short while.  Not one actor or actress stands out above the rest, they are all fair at making their characters believable.  Though I do have a fondness for Geoffrey Lewis, especially after the hauntingly eerie rocking chair scene in Salam's Lot that stays with me today.  He is good as the irascible plumber Harold.

It's the story that's the star in this film, though, and that is a very unusual thing to say about a horror film.  It's the fresh take on the Zombie mythos, in some ways it harpers back to the original Zombie, where a spell or a curse would resurrect the dead.  They then become unstoppable until the curse is lifted has run its course.  The course here is the revenge of the children on the Carlton bloodline.

I would recommend this to all horror fans or the casual viewer looking for something respectable in the genre.  You could do worse.

Movie Review - Wyrmwood

Wyrmwood:  Road Of The Dead

2014

The Cast

If you, like myself, have started to become bored with the "Zombie-Fest" the film companies have given us, from the remakes of George Romero's classics to Zombie Nazi's to World War Z, then this is a great big breath of fresh air... or not (you'll get that joke once you watch the film.

What you get here is the classic opening and cause for the Zombie plague, a group of falling stars which changes the chemical make-up of the air.  The change forces the population to become Zombies, except for one particular blood group... these are our survivors.

Along the way you get their stories, an army with a suspect mission, a mad professor with an insane plan to help the human race, and the next generation of Zombie.  Even though all of this has been done before in other films, the vigour with which the director, Kiah Roache-Turner gives the film, and the twists to the "Zombie Myths" which the writers, Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner, add give this film and the particular genre a much-deserved kick in the arse.

The actors were great and did a fantastic job on the characterisations.  I especially liked Leon Burchell as Benny, who blows a guys head off to find he wasn't a Zombie, to which he runs over to the corpse and shouts, "Is he okay?  Is he gonna be okay?"

The first time I saw Barry, the main hero, I wasn't too sure of his character or the actor playing him, Jay Gallagher.  I was wrong about my initial opinion on the character and actor, as his story is one of loss, anger, revenge, and growth, and shows what kind of psychological journey you would take should the Zombie Apocalypse occur.

Bianca Bradey did a wonderful job of portraying Barry's sister Brooke, who is a strong, intelligent, take-no-crap, woman.  Frank, played by Keith Agius, is a wonderful character who has a great depth to him, the scene in the stalled truck is brilliant.  The mad professor is greatly over-acted by Berynn Schwerdt making him a wonderful psychopath.

This film is so chock-full of so many different things, even genres, comedy, action, thriller, with horror being the main genre and I was grateful that the horror feel stayed throughout.  I was waiting to be dismayed when it all eventually fell apart.  Like watching a plate twirler, you're expecting a plate to fall and smash, and once that happens usually all the other plates follow.  When the end came and the credits rolled, I was wearing a big smile on my face, thanks guys for a great film.

I caught this as it aired on Film4 though now I'm looking to pick up a copy so I can throw it at my friends while screaming, "WATCH THIS!"

This is a MUST WATCH for any Zombie-ites out there.  I give this a flesh-ripping blood-dripping 10 out of 10.

Okay, so the trailer is below, however, I would recommend watching the movie and not the trailer, because, as is the want of trailers, some (not even most and definitely not all) of the good scenes are shown, but most of the pivotal scenes are, which would be better and more satisfying when viewed in the movie.

You Have Been Warned!