Zombies of Mass Destruction

Zombie films have to be one of my favorites in the horror genre. And for some strangely odd reason it's always been hard to find a decent one. The remake of Dawn of the Dead is hands down one of the few I can watch over and over again. Everything just seems to be done right with it.

Definition
In modern times, zombies became a popular subject in horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and they have appeared as plot devices in various books, films and in television shows. Zombie fiction is now a sizeable sub-genre of horror, usually describing a breakdown of civilization occurring when most of the population become flesh-eating zombies – a zombie apocalypse. The monsters are usually hungry for human flesh, often specifically brains. Sometimes they are victims of a fictional pandemic illness causing the dead to reanimate or the living to behave this way, but often no cause is given in the story.

Review

Zombies of Mass Destruction is a B movie Horror that I got the pleasure of watching last night. The movie takes place on an island called Port Gamble. It starts off like all of your typical zombie flicks with a bit of a back story on the main characters then, of course, the infection starts.

I was actually quite surprised with how much humor they added into the film in the beginning and kept it going at all the right points. My favorite scene was when one of the main characters, Frida, was helping a helpless little girl across the street and the little girl gets taken out by a truck, leaving Frida standing there with her arm. I do have to say that that is the most I have laughed at something that tragic.

As the story goes on and the infection spreads small groups of people have already formed up to face the outbreak. You have your religious group who think that the outbreak of zombies is an act of God. "For we will be saved, we have Jesus on our side who is the greatest Zombie!" Reverend Haggis. A small Homosexual group (which took me off guard) "Don't shoot me I'm gay!" Tom Hunt. And for some strangely odd reason, a small muslim group. I unfortunately do not have a good enough line from the movie to pin to that group, sorry.

The main group of survivors start off between 12-15 people and by the end of the movie there is only 4 left. Again, typical zombie flick. But with the end of this movie instead of the zombies taking over the Earth and turning it into a giant wasteland, the government manages to contain it. Nothing was better than at the end of movie with a big "29 weeks later" which was a not so subtle reference to 28 days later, and 28 weeks later.

Overall I'd have to give this movie a 6.8 out of 10. The acting by the main characters was actually really good, but when it came to the zombies it seemed a bit corny. But it added to the film.

Douglas Joseph