ZombieZ (2005)
Director: John Bacchus AKA Zachary Winston Snygg
Writer: John Bacchus
Synopsis: A woman in an urban neighborhood finds herself on the run from the living dead. Her friends are being slaughtered and she can find no help. Will she survive or will she too fall victim to the Zombiez?
I am speechless after viewing this one, so let's get right to the review...
1) ACTING: The acting really wasn't all THAT bad. There were a few individuals that could have taken a few more acting classes, but no one was REALLY bad. The lead actress was very good.
2) PRODUCTION: Amazingly enough, I found the production values on this surprisingly good...to a point. Just an observation, but it makes me wonder if this movie was actually shot in order with the script. As the movie progresses, the production values started to suffer. Shots that were properly lit and focused and very tight, now have gone down in quality. Near the end of the movie, there was nary a drop of blood to be seen, even though people were stilled being killed off. It made me think that since the budget for the movie was going down, so was everything else. So, when the producers got to the ending scenes of the movie, it appeared that money had run out and they were making do with what they had. While I'm sure that many movies suffer from this, sadly, it was painfully noticeble. And the soundtrack, while it was not the latest hip-hop songs I had thought it might be, (and it wasn't heavy metal music. YAY!) it seemed like someone sat down at a music machine, recording a few tracks sounding like "an urban beat," and played it over and OVER AND OVER. And my only real continuity gripe was the heroine seemed to forget when her ankle was sprained / broken except when the scene called for it.
3) SPECIAL EFFECTS: Very disappointing. I know low budget movies have to improvise and make do, but...it just gets very old and repetitive when a zombie reaches UNDER my shirt to kill me and pulls out my guts (which consisted of a bag of leftovers from the local butcher shop) time and time again. A zombie's make up consisted of having some blood on its face and having some blood / dirt on its shirt. And the weapons that the zombies used must have been gotten from the local Halloween store. Plastic knives, cleavers, swords...at LEAST for the close ups, real ones should've been used.
4) ZOMBIES / ZOMBIEZ: This was the biggest let down of all. The zombies in this movie are not zombies at all. They are more like psychopaths with cannibalistic traits on the loose. They use weapons, they talk, they taunt their victims, they run away from the police, they follow the words of their leader, they torture people. This movie should've been called "PsychoZ" or "CannibalZ," not "ZombieZ."
5) THE CAUSE: It was over an hour before any revelation was made as to what exactly was going on in this movie, relating to all these people being killed, and to why the zombies were attacking. Which still didn't really explain HOW the zombies came to be...
6) NUDITY: One brief scene of a totally nude female victim laying on a table.
7) SPECIAL INTEREST: I will not even begin to explain the guy dressed up as a giant yellow chicken.
Avoid this one. This one isn't worthy of a rental. If it was on the sci-fi channel, I would turn the t.v. off. Seriously. I would rather watch Day of the Dead 2: Contagium again. And that's saying a LOT.
RATING: 0.5 out of 5 (for the production values)
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