I find that the key to enjoying zombies is to know what to expect before you jump into it. As a genre, it is common for movies to be made with an extremely low budget AND if they have a high budget, they spend that money attempting to make the movie LOOK like it had a minuscule budget. It has also become, almost a joke, to exaggerate the foolishness we all love; and so you have to expect that there can be moments of poor (sometimes non-existent) acting alongside some extreme characterizations.
If you love the genre, you not only make allowances for those eccentricities, you revel in them.
However, there are times when –even knowing what to expect- a zombie movie will let you down.
My most recent experience with this was while watching the movie "Zombies, Zombies, Zombies". This movie is about a group of cracked out prostitutes which take some tainted cocaine and then attack the local strippers. Genius, right. I LOVED it! With lines like, "who let the motherf*@king zombies into the motherf*@king strip club!" and the constant string of tearing flesh, it was shaping up to be a great time.
All that came to a screeching halt though, when the "hero" injects himself with the antiserum which will stop the zombie plague.
The master plan? To let the zombies into the club so that they can eat him- thus saving the world. It was a letdown. I admit it. I haven't been this disappointed in the ending of a zombie movie since ZOMBIELAND- and this movie had none of ZOMBIELAND's redeeming qualities.
You know when someone hands you a dirty sock and tells you to smell it- that is what this is….
So what zombie has disappointed you?
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