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By design or not, people have stolen zombie movies from George A. Romero since 1968. Maybe you have heard of his debut movie. It was about a day in which the alive was dead and the dead was alive. What he crafted years ago (after taking some inspiration from Richard Matheson’s ‘I Am Legend’) is now claimed to be official and legendary zombie mythology, and assumed to be from the thousands of years old. In reality, it’s about only forty years old and doesn’t stem from a native American shaman or cave wall paintings but some old stoner from Pittsburgh.
They walk at a slow pace. They are dead. A hit to the brain is the only way to kill them. You will transform into one if they bite you. Do not call them zombies (even though they clearly are).
SyFy Channel produced A Zombie apocalypse which was an original movie made by the Asylum. Don’t you feel like running towards the hills? For once, I understand. But come on folks… It isn’t half bad.
Ramona, played by Taryn Manning of Sons of Anarchy fame, has joined two of her friends, seeking refuge on the post-apocalypse world teeming with zombies. Bites happen, and zombies too, but a different group of survivors swoops in and saves the day. While Kev is taken out as a zombie buffet, Ramona and Billy are “adopted” and raised alongside zombies by a group of survivors headed by Mack and implemented by Julian, a pretentious writer who is a blatant Cassie – wife who wants to meet her husband and has a dead son. Along with Henry, the veteran of zombie flicks, the trio sets out with a new purpose – to do everything else which survivors of a zombie apocalypse try so hard to do – simply, survive.
To be very honest, Zombie Apocalypse isn’t the worst movie around. On the contrary, the cast’s performance is, at the very least, passable, and rather shockingly, the viewers never seem to get aggravated at any of the actors. While the people in the story might not have too much depth – some have less backstory while some have more. But at the very least, each character exists – even if just for a heartbeat. And if that’s not enough, there’s more than enough skeletons to make one care and let me be honest here, care during a sequence where two characters get cut off from the group and end up getting surrounded by a horde.
I now want to shift the conversation to the dead. I have to give Z.A. some credit, however trivial it might sound to others (please contradict me if I am wrong) but this is the first zombie film I’ve seen which not only features both walking AND running zombies, but goes the extra mile to explain why some walk, while others run (the walkers have been dead longer; the runners are “fresher”). Even in Romero’s films it is established that zombies are slow and shambly, but for some strange reason, they sometimes rush towards their prey with reckless abandon.
The make-up effects are good enough, except some zombie-skin moments where a patch is filmed and it isn’t rotted or putrid enough to merit a scratch. The kills are cool, and I can say that I have never seen better ways to off a zombie before. That ice skate kill is as awesome as it is ridiculous.
The dialogue is clever and is composed of many classic scenes from the “what if” conversations we have had with friends sitting around a diner table late in the evening. What would happen in case of a zombie invasion?What sorts of weapons would you use? Would you drive or walk? Would you use bicycles? Flamethrowers? Animals? Do you believe they would transform? It really feels like the movie was devised by real zombies lovers instead of people who just threw some content confronting zombies since they are currently the center of popular culture.
But alas, any viewer of this movie could guess that the story plot is rooted in sci-fi. Many audiences might criticize an otherwise well designed and ambitious post apocalyptic look due to the lack of funds. A lot of CGI features in this picture are literally cringe inducing. The parts of the film that show animals turned into zombies for some reason appear to be overly animated. However, somehow, there’s enough apparent effort that went in behind the scenes that makes a spectator overlook this feature.
There are a few spots where exposition logic is poorly executed. This means that there are times when a character encounters a zombie and in order to kill it they say that they must bash its head in or feebly attempt to stab/ shoot it in the stomach instead. Or when a character asks if it’s safe to capture the arrow after shooting a zombie with the relevant ammunition. Then the character, without trying to grab the arrow, runs past the zombie not caring about it, even if it could have been reached without effort.
Can’t deny that some words are just horrific, “Is anyone living in there?”, is a valid question a character is claiming more than once, and then I start and ask myself: are the zombies in the claimed room really requiring the answer? Seated in a room and doing some finger bite, will they listen while a guy is screaming and asking to see humans and when then isn’t going to be clasming? No, they obviously will not. What they desired were fressers fingers.
Also, a non-character in the film’s fictional universe shoots a probable five thousand bullets and there is no scene in the film when a single person reloads a gun. Just saying.
Cue Insert In a number of instances and scenes, people make those truly startling statements that suggest the zombies are progressing. They aren’t. In the scene where it’s revealed that Cass’ son gets assaulted by zombies but not conclusively killed, there is a suspenseful notion that she will encounter her son who is a zombie later on… except she does not.
For everything there is to consider, I can’t say I understand it completely. Was there thinking or anticipation for a Z.A. 2? Was it some kind of prototype for a TV series (which is an extremely dubious question)? If your answer to these questions is no, then what is the logic behind engineering these plots solely to not fulfill them?
No, it does not pay out, but I admittedly enjoyed this movie a fair bit. It certainly doesn’t come close, isn’t even attempting too, and does not want to. And to clarify, let me put it this way: if this was a multi-million-dollar budget film that was released in theaters, I would have torn it apart. There is no universe in which it would be watchable. It would be trying to bask in the fart fumes of “terrible.” But it was not that heavy of a weight. This was made for SyFy, folks. Have you seen their movies? Obviously, your mind will for all eternity will be scarred with a lot of their output, because it is simply inescapable. Z.A. can be considered one of the neglected pieces because it had a lot of inherited weight. It was not just average, unbranded trash.
The burgeoning world of zombie filmmakers will forever be at peace with the fact that Romero’s films will always be regarded as canon.
Every upcoming film regarding flesh eating zombies is bound to be Romero’s sequel. And whether Romero likes it or not, is irrelevant. At this very moment, it seems Zombie Apocalypse is among the best.
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