According to Netflix: A top-secret U.S. government agency stages a biological weapons exercise in a Maryland town with horrific results: The toxic gas that's released turns all who breathe it into zombies, who then set about infecting the rest of the town. Finaly,only six residents are left standing, holed up together in a movie theater preparing to make a last stand against the undead. Gary Ugarek follows up his earlier gore epic Deadlands: The Rising.
At one point, the government head honcho calls up the hapless kids trapped inside and does the "neener neener" at them. I wished at that moment for a good strong thunderstorm to backtrack some of that toxic gas to the military officials who were responsible for this atrocity in the first place.
While the special effects are great, and the plot is solid, some of the actors needed a more tempered hand. One of the main heroes had just one vocal inflection - yelling, and after a while it started to rub on the nerves. The F-bomb is dropped in nearly every other sentence, and in one case while a heroine is screaming the FU at a bunch of zombies, I got the impression she felt very uncomfortable doing it. Additionally, the sound quality was touch and go. I could barely hear what the lap dancer said, but the screaming totally overloaded the microphones.
There are some other noticeable inconsistancies. Some zombies shuffled and stumbled and moved about like traditional Romero zombies. Others were so fast on their feet, they should have been Olympic sprinters. You saw zombies using the stairs (some even glanced down to make sure they didn't trip and fall), but zombies can't climb ladders?
If you've seen MIDNIGHT MOVIE, about teenagers trapped inside a movie theater, then this is pretty much the same flick, but with zombies instead of a serial killer. But despite its raw, construction paper quality, it's actually not a bad little Saturday afternoon no-brainer.
My recommendation?
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