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Zombie Hood (2013)
'Almost' a good amateur zombie film
I wanted this to be a great local film. So maybe my review is going to be based more on disappointment than neutral reflection. I really wanted this to be a film which demonstrated that a low budget film made by amateurs who just wanted to make a film for the fun and experience of it could compete with the pro's. In some respects the illusion of pro was achieved. The camera work is generally good, the excellent make up and special effects is on a par with the big boys, and considering the amateur status their is some generally believable acting. There are also some good individual scenes, but herein lies the problem. The film feels like a series of individual scenes with just a loose coherence of plot to hold it together. There are so many random death scenes happening outside the core characters that they lose their identity within the film. The characters are diluted, and as they seem to have no set desires or goals outside of survival you have no affinity or connection with them. To use a rather poor metaphor if I may. A good film has a spine of a plot with the characters running along it and the skin and muscle are the scenes that put flesh of story on the film. Zombie Hood feels more of an exoskeleton of plot with all the guts and scenes thrown in to make a film. So if you are a Zombie aficionado then watch zombie hood, if you live in the East Mids where it was made then watch zombie hood as for both reasons you will get something from this film. I applaud the people who made this film, I really do, I just wanted it to be ....more?
Dead & Buried (1981)
Is this supposed to be a comedy?
Perhaps it was the disappointment that this film was being shown at our local cinema as a last minute replacement for Zombie Flesh Eaters but I was not impressed by this film at all. I was in fact worried a few minutes in that I had wandered by mistake into a cheap porn film such is the beginning of the film, but alas it was down hill after a brief glimpse of a ladies breast. I did however laugh at it more times than any of the Austin Powers films put together, which granted was only once so its not much of an achievement. I found myself in fits of giggles at the clunky script, and the actors attempts to deliver such dreadfully corny purely plot driving lines. The overall idea and is great just the execution is woeful, the so called 'twist' was so obvious I think my 6 year old could have spotted it. But if you are in a mood for a laugh at a B movies expense then its worth a watch.