Tag: zombies

Severed: Forest of the Dead (R: 2005)

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Severed: Forest of the Dead

(R: 2005)

Director: Carl Bessai. Starring: Paul Campbell … Tyler; Sarah Lind … Rita; Julian Christopher … Mac; JR Bourne … Carter; Michael Teigen … Luke; Leanne Adachi … Stacey; John Reardon … Greg; Patrick Gallagher … Anderson; Hrothgar Mathews … Eric; and others.
An interesting eco-zombie flick about a multi-national forestry company that is engaging in biological experiments with the trees in a very remote part of a Canadian forest in hopes of getting a better logging yield. Something bizarre goes wrong though, as the experimental biology takes hold in the loggers and a camp of environmental activists turning them into flesh-eating zombies. Its a fight for survival as several hole up in a fortress fighting off the zombies. Interesting plot and acting. I enjoyed it. Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ZM4tO8W44

My Boyfriends Back (PG: 1993)

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My Boyfriend’s Back

(PG: 1993)

Director: Bob Balaban. Starring: Andrew Lowery … Johnny; Traci Lind … Missy McCloud; Danny Zorn … Eddie; Edward Herrmann … Mr. Dingle; Mary Beth Hurt … Mrs. Dingle; Jay O. Sanders … Sheriff McCloud; and others.

With the same late 80’s/early 90’s comedy flair, “My Boyfriend’s Back” is a classic black comedy about a teen named Johnny Dingle who, in love with a girl named Missy McCloud, from childhood, dies before he can profess his love to her. His love is so strong he returns from the grave to take her to prom. But he has to figure out how to stop himself from decaying, or eating other students, before the prom happens. A classic necrophiliac love comedy. The film covers social mistrust and prejudice so acts as a political satire of the times. It is also of the teen satire in the classic aura of John Hughes. Lots of fun!
Rating: 4 stars out of 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeqaRvId0nI

Dead Alive (R: 1992)

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Dead Alive (R: 1992)
* Director: Peter Jackson * Starring: Timothy Balme … Lionel Cosgrove; Diana Peñalver … Paquita Maria Sanchez; Elizabeth Moody … Mum (Vera Cosgrove); Ian Watkin … Uncle Les; Brenda Kendall … Nurse McTavish; and many more. *

A New Zealand produced zombie flick about a subservient mommy’s boy who does everything his mother requests of him even when she is bitten by a creature that turns her into a zombie. At the same time, the good son falls in love with a women who he believes is “the one”. The town becomes infected by the mother and the son must rise about against his evil bloodthirsty mother to save the town from destruction and win the heart of his princess. Pretty corny. Rated 2.5 stars out of 5.