Before I start in with my next review, could you all please give COTCgirl a nice warm welcome. I'm looking forward to talking horror movies with you and I'm sure the others that post comments here are looking forward to it as well.This weekend is going to be a zombie weekend. It kinda started with Dead Meat, even though I didn't watch it over the weekend. For today I watched the next zombie movie Zombie Night (2003). Normaly I would give an overview of some of the plot but this movie was sooo bad that I will just talk about it some as I go.
World War III has broken out in the middle east and atomic or chemical weapons have been used all over the world. This is causing the dead to come back to life. Mark (John Carson) and Amber (Andrea Ramolo), along with their daughter Emily (Deanna Wales), are just finding out about this after spending a vacation up in the mountains with no radio or tv. Sounds interesting so far? It did to me at the start but it quickly went down hill from there. As soon as the actor's spoke, it was easy to tell this was going to be a long movie. Anyways, they hole up and after a few days they start to run out of supplies. Mark then decides to go out and see what he can find. He runs into Dave (Danny Ticknovich). Together they start finding more survivers and make a group while trying to find a place where they can all be safe.
This is a more of a story about the people that are left more then it is about the zombies. Even though there is a greater threat, we still can't see to all get along to well. This is proven by the character of Derek (Dwayne Moniz) who tries to be the "I in team." After being caught eating as much food as he could stuff, and being a jerk in general, the group decides it is best if they make Derek leave. He does so but quickly returns. Since the group won't let him back in, he breaks the door down which allows the zombies to get in as well. Derek does things like this all through the movie, even kills a girl right in front of everyone and yet the group really never does anything about him.
Speaking of the group, the group seems to get larger and smaller at will. Most of the new people are never explained or introduced. They make the group smaller after zombie attacks usually. We only see a couple of people get caught by the zombies but we are told by the main characters that "we lost a lot of people tonight." I was never sure who was being killed half the time. After a while I gave up caring anyways. There seems to be plenty of guns but we never see ammo so I have no idea how they managed to reload. I'm also fairly sure that some guns had more bullets in them than they could hold.
The only good thing I can really say about Zombie Night are the effects. The zombies were well done. Nice and bloody but no rotting ones that I could find. Towards the end of the movie they were starting to turn up with a blue hue to them. I didn't really care for that to much. One zombie has his leg shot off (why the guy just didn't shoot the zombie in the head I don't know) and the zombie starts to eat the part of the leg that is no longer attacted to him. First time I have seen a zombie eating itself. There was also a scene where Amber gets gutted and having her insides munched on while still alive that was done nicely as well.
All the being said, I can't suggest anyone watch Zombie Night just for the effects. It isn't worth it! Very flat, and sometimes over done, acting. Some scenes make no sense what so ever like a guy peeing on a wall while a news cast is being heard over a radio. That scene a few others really had no purpose to the over all plot of the movie but we still see them. The sound was the worst I have heard in a while. I often complain about the actor's voices being so low I can't hear them so I turn it up only to be blasted by music or some other noise. There were times like that in this movie as well, but it wasn't music I had to worry about, it the actor's voices. One second they are real low and then for the next scene they are blaring out at you. Not only that, the voices don't always match up with their mouth.
Zombie Night stays true to its title at least. You see, the zombies are only active at night. They seem to just lay around mostly durring the day. It was very rare that they showed a zombie walking around in the sun light. You would think this would be the perfect time to go zombie hunting but no, they never go do this. In the end, the group is down to four, they tie Derek up and hang him in a tree so the zombies can snack on him. Then they run head long into a big group of zombies in order to try and get by them and the credits role. After all the strugle they went through with Derek, it would have been nice watching him being munched on at the very least.
What could be worse than this movie you ask? How about a sequel? Yes you read that right, according to IMDb there will be a sequel on the way. Sequel's are my weakness, I....must...watch. I wonder which movie they will copy this time. Zombie Night reminded me so much of Night Of The Living Dead. Lets at least hope the sequel is better, it sure can't be any worse.
1 out of 5 Zombie cannaibalism
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