Aaah ! Zombies !!

Level 33 Entertainment

MVD Visual,

Region 0

The usual brash, sex-starved teenage kids find true love and respect when they are turned into zombies and become better people …er, zombies… when they have changed. The non-zombie world will be just as harsh on them as you would expect.

We see the zombie world through the kids’ eyes in colour, but the ”real” world is now reduced to black and white. There is occasional humour as they adjust to their new powers but they still don’t know they have turned.

The plot could be from any of hundreds of zombie films. The usual Secret Army Experiment to breed supersoldiers turns the men into zombies instead. The usual drum of the formula finds its way into the kids’ icecreams at the local bowling alley and they all turn into zombies. The kids discover that drinking beer or dairy products (the icecream?) will partly neutralise the effect. They will still be zombies but can otherwise live normally. The zombies meet an AWOL soldier who believes he is one of the “supersoldier” successes, in spite of being a zombie himself. The Army surrounds the town. When the kids realise they are now zombies they must cooperate to escape to some place where zombies can live in peace and happiness. Mexico?

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There are some brilliant moments in the plot, such as when Mike (by now reduced to a head and a hand) is carried around in a bowling ball bag. Although he was previously the sleazy teenage boy who would hit on any female, he has now learned responsibility and saves his friends. His hand has already saved them once – it became detached from his arm, stuck in the bowling ball, and helped him get the strike his team needed to win by dragging itself back onto the lane and knocking over the last pin.

So there you have it – a cheap zombie knockoff or a deep film of human relationships developing between shy, sensitive zombies? It is too much fun to be a cheap knockoff so enjoy it as a good comedy.

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