Brains, Blood, Boomsticks, & Broods

Schlock Night hit the road yesterday and attended the Rochester, NY ImageOut screening of ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction. Since I just watched Zombieland the night before it’s going to be tough not to make comparisons.

Truthfully ZMD was everything I wanted Zombieland to be, and if it had stepped off it’s soapbox at times it would have been damn near perfect. The kills were inspired! I mean they were thought of by someone who loves the genre, not just has the money to make them happen. In this instance they had the money as well, and it just serves to make them even more fun. It took me back to the days of Dead Alive.

What would have made it perfect? If they had chopped about 10 minutes out of it… We all agreed it started a little slow, leaving us to wonder if it would pick up. When it finally does get going it opens with what are now two of my top ten zombie movie scenes ever. I won’t spoil the movie, but as you jerk back in your seat laughing you’ll know you’ve seen them. It also would have been more fun if they had pulled some of the didactic parts. It’s a politically driven movie, but they often went out of their way to reiterate what the audience had just seen.

However, it’s a lot of fun and the more people you see it with the better it gets. It does have some pretty dark moments to balance the comedic tone, and would have been served best by leaving off the ending (or playing it during the credits). You’ll see. it’s well worth the watch.

What it has: Arms that are easily ripped off, zombies on fire, intestines, really nice makeup, shamblers, a gory coming out, a little girl with bad luck, poetic songs that will make you cry, and about 250 other reasons to go see it

What it doesn’t have: subtlety, anyone you’ll recognize, Romero parallels, nudity, any question on how the director feels about 9/11

.5 a point for the ending and .5 a point for the soapbox leave us with

4/5 purple fuzzy handcuffs

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