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Sunday, 16 June 2013

Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead

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 Overly complicated head scratching title aside this concept really sounded original, new and exciting to me. Two good friends on a trip to a horror convention somehow get trapped along with other con patrons in an alternate world where they are cast to relive the George A. Romero classic Night of the Living Dead! I can't tell you what an immense good time that would be until shit gets real and a walking sack of maggots starts chewing on you or your friend's vitals. Not so much fun anymore.
Now from the start to about a third of the movie this is a good zombie film, not great by any means, but certainly good. Something happens at that point though, I won't spoil it because it really tossed me on my ass, but this thing picks up speed and takes off like a fucking nuclear missile somehow making the slower start of the film, easier to digest. The character's aren't anything special as it's mostly convention tag alongs (not true fans) who wake up in this nightmare, but rest assured there is a purpose for everything. Smart, fun, and soaked in gore Mimesis is a one of a kind tasty treat for the undead eyes. Hell I'll even go one step further and label this bitch "Groovy!"

P.S. I saw this flick get bashed a lot across the internet as the trailer had music by the self proclaimed most hated band in the world the Insane Clown Posse and ended claiming the film itself also featured music by ICP. Now my thoughts on ICP aside I can tell you for better or worse there is only one ICP song in the whole damn thing and it doesn't play till the end credit crawl. So if their music was keeping you from seeing this flick, suck it up buttercup nobody is forcing you to sit through the credits unless you watch it with me; in which case you will watch the credits and enjoy the credits and not talk through the credits. :)

Sunday, 2 June 2013

A Little Bit Zombie

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A catty bridezilla (Tina) drags her fiance Steve's family (Sister Sarah, and jock brother in law Craig) out to a small cabin to plan the final steps of her wedding, make table centre pieces and all that other tedious annoying shit that comes with the big day. But after being attacked by an un-killable mosquito the jokes about a groom's funeral come too close to home, as the soon to be groom begins getting literal cold feet. Even though Steve's heart has stopped he will do anything to not break Tina's hiding his growing hunger until the instinct to feed becomes uncontrollable. Steve's an all around nice dude though and still continues to try and find ways to overcome his illness and avoid eating from his friend's chattering brain bowls. Once our zombie friend's secret is revealed, the group bands together to help poor Steve find a way to continue leading a normal quality of life. While our heroes look for answers a zombie hunter sniffs out the stiff in hopes of ending his un-death.

It's gotta be hard to come up with an original zombie film these days and it's so refreshing to find one that isn't stale. I really dug this zombie flick. All the talent were charismatic and fun for the roles. The bickering relationship between Steve's fiance and sister was believable and actually kind of charming as was Craig's over confidence and loveable douche-baggery. The effects were goofy and fun with some light gore giving the production enough balls to sell the punchline.

A Little Bit Zombie falls in line of other impressive recent horror comedies AHHH! Zombies, and the kick ass Rock n' Roll Vampire picture, Suck!