i survived a zombie holocaust
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i wasn’t enjoying “i survived a zombie holocaust” anyway. its stale jokes fell flat. its plotline was derivative. but i worried i was leaning towards a harsh opinion because i had a difficult time focusing what with my eyes rolling every time i had to listen to the fool next to me play mst3k .
i survived a zombie holocaust follows what happens when a group of real zombies take over the set of a zombie film, with a young runner the first to realise what' s happening .
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i really sincerely hope that this could be the next peter jackson' s brain dead – you know, guy pigden' s i survived a zombie holocaust ,
says actor harley neville .
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i survived a zombie holocaust will premiere on august 16 in the dunedin town hall, during the new dunedin city council - sponsored dundead festival, celebrating pop culture and science .
ultimately i survived a zombie holocaust turned out to be an unexpected gem of a movie, one that i would recommend to fans of peter jackson’s early work (and those that liked zombie women of satan – there has to be some of you out there) .
marking the upcoming world premiere of i survived a zombie holocaust in dunedin yesterday are (from left) levi spurr, charlotte morgan, zoe hobson and aaron kearney. photo by linda robertson .
several months ago i found i survived a zombie holocaust on facebook and was very impressed with the poster artwork and trailer for the film. i reached out to them and they were kind enough to send me a review link. sadly, i completely forgot to check my messages after that and their reply went unnoticed until now. thanks guys for letting me check this one out and i am sorry i missed your reply .
from 38 pictures and funded by the new zealand film commision, comes guy pigden’s i survived a zombie holocaust, which now has an official facebook (with a few images) and the following teaser trailer .
i love these old zombie movies! this was a great cheesy movie that made me laugh .
i survived a zombie holocaust is a small budget indie flick zombie comedy and my gosh did i find that movie charming. i mean, it mashes up the hakka with a call back to night of the living dead. harley neville and jocelyn christian put a lot of heart into a well written set of roles (written and directed by guy pigden) in a fun rompy zombie comedy. if you' ve ever enjoyed a zombie movie or three, give this one a watch. of all the movies i watched this year, i' ve carried the most water for it because i earnestly love it. and i want more people to see it .
the meek shall inherit the earth! well in this new zealand zombie flick they do. i caught this on the tube the other night and i have to admit after a mediocre start i ended up ...
finally, the film has several on screen kills. the kills are nothing that stick out but they are gory and fun as hell. the film has some great practical effects as well that make these kills amazing. overall, i survived a zombie holocaust is a zombie comedy that has more laughs as it does gore scenes. if you like your zombie films funny then i recommend checking this one out !
“i survived a zombie holocaust” boasts a number of terrific gore gags, particularly a severed limb cauterization, a zombie film staple we’ve all seen before that is nonetheless painfully sizzling. though taking the top prize as the single most memorable moment is a shot of an infected penis guaranteed to make every male viewer cup his crotch in squirming sympathy .
sure, we' ve seen some local releases: recent dance flick born to dance, heavy metal splatter comedy deathgasm, zombie meta - comedy i survived a zombie holocaust, parody sequel ghost shark 2: urban jaws; we played small parts in making slow west and turbo kid happen as well .
not great but not totally horrible. i' m biased as i like zombie films and stuff coming out of new zealand and australia are pretty ok these days .
although it’s overall lack of creativity can only level it 3 stars, i survived a zombie holocaust is a worthy tongue - in - cheek examination of the zombie genre, working well as a love letter to a genre that guy pigden must certainly admire. it’s a very silly, but highly entertaining low - budget flick that’s propelled by a devoted cast and sharp script .
horror - comedies, or “horrordies” as a character in “i survived a zombie holocaust” dubs the subgenre, usually aren’t my cup of tea. so in addition to making that disclaimer ahead of time, i sometimes calibrate my objectivity by keying into reactions of fellow audience members to gauge how the humor reads to those with presumably more of an appreciation for horror - based goofs than i may have .
i survived a zombie holocaust follows a runner called wesley (yes, he is as hopeless as his name sounds) as he embarks on his first day on the set of a low - budget zombie film. little do he and the rest of the cast and crew know, that a real zombie apocalypse is on the horizon and the set is about to be overwhelmed with the undead – for real .
broadly (in every sense) funny, and with a good heart to match all the blood and guts, i survived a zombie holocaust is an infectiously self - consuming artifact from the land of the haka - not just a (nother) romzomcom, but also a savvy' meta weta' .
crew. likely less than 10% of a crew of 1, 100 survived .
now a zombie, adam attacks. wesley kills adam, but is bitten in the process. susan prepares to reluctantly shoot wesley, but he reasons that they can stop the infection by severing his bitten hand and cauterizing the wound. wesley and susan then escape together and go on to make a docudrama about their experience titled “i survived a zombie holocaust. ”
writer - director guy pigden is banking on smp being wrong, because his own feature debut, i survived a zombie holocaust, is not unlike the film that wesley is describing (and smp is dismissing). of course, local history is on pigden' s side, as…
imagine you are tasked with creating a comedy that takes place behind - the - scenes on a film set, and your first assignment is to come up with characters based on every hollywood stereotype imaginable. write those down and see if your list doesn’t match the clichéd character roster of “i survived a zombie holocaust. ”
the last film of the night in the main screen was new zealand comedy i survived a zombie holocaust. wesley (harley neville) is an aspiring screenwriter who gets a job as a runner on a zombie film overseen by a tyrannical director. after suffering a series of embarrassments, it seems like wesley’s first day can’t get any worse. he’s wrong, of course, and the film’s method actor doesn’t have to pretend anymore, as a real - life zombie horde attacks the film crew .
i survived a zombie holocaust will hit home with anyone who came out of film school or studied film at university and their experiences as a runner on their first film set. the runner in question is the mild and meek wesley, who has aspirations of being a writer and is using this zombie movie set as a way to spread around his script, which is also a zombie movie. after he goes through a traumatic time of mishaps and accidents, a real - life zombie apocalypse breaks out and now he has to go from runner to action hero .
like a preprogrammed robot or laboratory - trained monkey reacting as his master expects, this idiot “ewwwwed” on cue any time something gross appeared onscreen, “awwwwed” during any and all tenderhearted moments, and yelled “woooo! ” whenever something explosive took place like an ax being driven into a zombie’s skull. what this confirmed was that “i survived a zombie holocaust” was in fact pandering to predictably pedestrian appeal. his reactions were reflexive rather than responsive. as his alcohol - fueled enthusiasm waned into more politely toned reactions out of presumed deference to the filmmakers seated somewhere in the same theater, it became clear that “i survived a zombie holocaust” was incapable of sustaining the interest of even an easily - entertained nitwit .
even thought the film is infused with over - the - top ridiculousness and a script that pokes fun at the genre, i survived a zombie holocaust still pays “respect” to those genre films that have come before it. featuring nods to romero’s zombie films, 28 days later, evil dead, apocalypse now and more, this film is like a movie geeks wet dream. the film starts with a fourth - wall breaking zombie “movie” and ends on a similar slant and in between is some of the wittiest and smuttiest humour i’ve seen in a horror movie in some time .
as a product of a post - modern world where creativity is almost as dead as the film’s zombies, guy pigden’s i survived a zombie holocaust proves that enjoyment can still be had when almost nothing is unique. the film works wonderfully as a meta acceptance that there is pretty much nothing left to do with the zombie genre. from the characterisation, to the location and the unabashedly self - referential script, this film is not trying to do anything different, because we’ve had enough zombie parodies, comedies and romances to last us a lifetime. i survived a zombie holocaust is about appreciating the genre for what it used to be and the place it is now, questioning what is next for a horror sub - genre that is running out of steam. and it’s quite the joyous journey to travel on, because it’s a ridiculous and gory ride of enjoyable ridiculousness .
a zombie movie within a zombie apocalypse within a zombie movie. i have to say that i never find this movie boring and i have seen if several times. this is a comedy that is meant to be a comedy. no attempt at reality or seriousness as the zombies hunt for brains. there are just too many twists and turns to comment on. all of the twists and jokes are interconnected and are done with typical commonwealth humor. it is laughs and chuckles all through the film .
i love when horror and comedy collides in the zombie apocalypse. romero and so many others made some of the most entertaining zombie films and they were damn near perfect because they were serious in nature. too many films try to capture that sense of foreboding and dread only to fail. with comedies, they never take themselves too seriously, and have fun with the idea of the dead coming back to life. these films are generally fun in nature but offer nothing new to the sub - genre. i survived a zombie holocaust is another great horror comedy set in the backdrop of a zombie outbreak that offers some laughs and gore .
which highlights the weaknesses of different kinds of government when responding to a zombie outbreak .
plus writer / director guy pidgen has brought toilet humour back to the zombie movie – it’s like zombie women of satan all over again (and yes, i was one of the few that liked that movie back at 2009′s frightfest). yes some of it comes across as incredibly childish in a “look at me i’m making a joke about shit” way but hell, that’s what i liked about it !
i' ll say right away, just to get my bias up front: i love zombies. in just about anything. so i loved this movie. sure, it' s not the end - all, be - all of zombie movies. and it' s not meant to be. it' s not meant to taken seriously. it' s a comedy with a few (very few) serious parts. so, i rate it as a comedy. with zombies that i love .
as i said in my review of housebound, new zealand has, over the years, become renown for producing some superb horror films. from the early work of peter jackson and his films bad taste and braindead; to the more recent frightfest flicks the loved ones and this years housebound. but, and i don’t say this lightly, all of those pail in comparison to i survived a zombie holocaust – a perfect mix of horror and comedy that resonated with me more than any film at this years frightfest (so far) .
in recent years, several ant timpson - produced films have played bifan, including turbo kid which picked up the best director gong in 2015 (for francois simard, anouk and yoann - karl whissell). gerard johnstone’s housebound, guy pigden’s i survived a zombie holocaust, james cunningham’s short accidents, blunders & calamities and steven baker’s short a love story are also among recent selections .
when i was in middle school and high school i had started to leave behind my tastes for vampire flicks and found myself fascinated with zombie comedies. i loved to watch my boyfriend’s back, dead & breakfast, dead next door, dead alive, and the goosebumps episode welcome to dead house. this is a phase that i never actually grew out of and still find myself checking these out today even with the huge influx of zombie flicks popping up every where due to the walking dead .
written and directed by guy pidgen, making his feature film debut, i survived a zombie holocaust takes all that is good about new zealand comedy - horror and ups the ante. the script is incredibly witty, there are a ton of “in - jokes” for genre fans and the main character is one of the most likeable heroes in a zom - com. in fact i could watch harley neville’s nebbish script - writer wannabe wesley over simon pegg’s layabout shaun any day of the week .
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zombie action in the alps: a group of young snowboarder is stuck in a remote mountain ski resort, where an all - night aprés - ski party soon turns into a hellish nightmare of zombie mayhem .
as mentioned earlier, it is unfair to compare every zomcom with shaun of the dead, but when a movie is as good as i survived a zombie holocaust, it should be worn with a badge of honour. it’s one of the funniest zombie comedies in recent memory (apart from the tremoundous stalled) and is a great example of how to get the genre right. a brilliant thrill ride that will make you laugh, make you hurl and can even make you cry – even if it’s just from laughing so much .
it seemed like that might be an impossibility at the screamfest premiere of “i survived a zombie holocaust, ” since seated to my immediate left was one of the drunkest, loudest, most obnoxious theater patrons one could ever experience the misfortune of having within arm’s reach. i’m talking the kind of loudmouth who howls and claps at every single gag, whether it is funny or not, or howls and claps simply if seven seconds has elapsed since the last time he howled and clapped .
a canonical example is the death star holocaust, i. e. the rank - and - file imperial troops, contractors, etc. that died when the rebellion blew up the first death star. in the
[ … ] new zealand has, over the years, become renown for producing some superb horror films. from the early work of peter jackson and his films bad taste and braindead; to the more recent frightfest flicks the loved ones and this years housebound. but, and i don’t say this lightly, all of those pail in comparison to i survived a zombie holocaust – a perfect mix of horror and comedy that resonated with me more than any film at this years frightfest. full review. [ … ]
i survived a zombie holocaust was 100 minutes of pretty good fun and i think for the most part that was the main goal of the film. i think given the budget and experience of this cast and crew the film serves a purpose and has a place. does it excel in either the horror or comedy department? probably not, but that’s no reason to write it off remember it’s not an easy thing to pull off that perfect blend. thankfully a technical success combined with the comedic timing of both harley and jocelyn and their ability to generate a chemistry that works for the most part makes this a good time! keep an eye out for the film’s release next year .
a young runner, on a zombie film set, has the first day from hell when real zombies overrun the set .
one of the better zomedies i' ve ever seen. super silly, but very funny .
merrill: we... we heard the dalish were given land in ferelden. is it true? alistair: yes. i wish i could say that went better. merrill: why? what happened? alistair: it' s... a long story. i intend to make it up to your people, however. i owe an old friend of mine too much to do otherwise .
but this is a zombie movie, so of course you want gore – and gore you get. from the blood - filled opening scene of the film they’re shooting to the movie’s own thrilling climax, i survived a zombie holocaust does not hold back at any point with its splatter, guts and infected members. because the movie doesn’t take itself too seriously, the high level of violence is akin to something like the aforementioned brain dead (although it never pushes to those levels) but it also has a serious heart and the drama that comes from the characters is very sweet .
but the bottom line is that “i survived a zombie holocaust” isn’t a fresh enough concept, and its broad comedy is too rote to resonate. it is also surprisingly slow to turn the corner into full - on apocalyptic mayhem. however, it is of course possible that those with more tolerant tastes in horror - comedy will laugh more than i did, although probably nowhere near as much as the boob in my row. no matter where in that range you might fall, you still won’t be reaching to put your copy of “shaun of the dead” into the trash bin anytime soon. when it comes to kiwi horrordy, i’ll stick with “housebound” (review here) .
in terms of horror, there’s nothing here that’s going to scare your socks off and that’s perfectly fine. nonetheless, there are some great gory moments that give the film a much - needed kick out of the straight comedy zone. just as the director says, “finally, something with real substance! ” as he records real zombies for his film, horror fans will be relieved that i survived a zombie holocaust can deliver brilliantly bloody action to go with its witty writing .
zombie honeymoon is a gore - soaked exploration of how far the boundaries of true love can be pushed without reaching a breaking point .
i actually do ,
says actress reanin johannink .
it' s a little bit hard to forget. it was may in dunedin in the freezing cold, and i was running around half the time in a singlet top .
good movie with funny moments... . and as good as any other zombie flick .
the zombie research society is using one of our most popular myths to explore the real world .
a zombie feature film produced in otago during the past three years will have its world premiere in dunedin next month .
any movie that comes with the tag of “zombie comedy” or “zomcom” will always be unfairly painted with the shaun of the dead comparison brush. last year’s superb stalled suffered the same fate as did other not - so - good attempts like cockneys vs. zombies. given the movie’s country of origin, comparing it to brain dead feels more apt, but in many ways i survived a zombie holocaust is a kiwi shaun of the dead. with that said, it deserves to be praised for much more than just being mentioned in the same sentence as peter jackson’s cult favourite and edgar wright’s bar setter .
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a zombie film shoot goes from bad to worse when members of the cast and crew catch a mystery illness, turning them into real zombies .
the cast and crew of a low - budget horror film struggle to escape their shooting location when a real - life zombie apocalypse breaks out .
look at what i found in the fruit bowl today. eyes, nose and even scary teeth .
ultra magnus: it' s the most beautiful thing i' ve ever seen. hand me the bomb .
i like movies about making movies and horror movies and comedy. this was good the only thing was the obvious nerd - gets - the - girl at the end i could have done without other then that good popcorn munch movie .
the graveyard in the legend of zelda i appears in the same position as kakariko village in the legend of zelda a link to the past .
a zombie apocalypse, although in some works it' s part of the underlying horror (or helps the ambiance at any rate) .
pidgin has a crafted an entertaining piece of genre filmmaking that embraces the history of zombie cinema whilst pricking a few bubbles of pretension potentially found in the cinematic world .
i recorded this on satellite tv but just had to leave a review while watching it. this is a comedy horror b - movie film with a small amount of nudity, including full frontal male .
in order for a zombie movie (comedy or not) to work, you have to fall in love with the main characters because you’ll want to see them survive. in the case of i survived a zombie holocaust, wesley is one of the most endearing and loveable dolts committed to the genre. he is a walking cliché of “dork” and his bumbling antics are nothing we haven’t seen before, but harley neville gives a wonderfully genuine performance and his sweet delivery of guy pigden’s hilarious script really wins you over. the rest of the characters range from brilliantly satirical to comedically wacky and everyone one of them is excellently written. even the most hateful of characters has a modicum of charm and they all have their own story and arc. it’s impressive to see and is something that is not seen often enough .
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a young runner, on a zombie film set, has the first day from hell when real zombies overrun the set. it held my interest for a while then ultimately fell - flat ...
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moments from many other zombie classics are also borrowed, paid homage – however you’d like to put it. but it’s a self - aware story to begin with, as romero, raimi and john carpenter are all cited as inspirations by the “tonight they come” filmmakers, as was also obviously the case for the filmmakers behind i survived a zombie holocaust (writer / director guy pidgen). wesley’s spec script, which he attempts to get into anyone’s hands is called “twilight of the dead” (one of the titles oft - thrown around when romero was first chatting up a possible fourth entry in his “of the dead” series), some of the over - the - top zombie kills were straight out of peter jackson’s dead alive, and one bit in the farmhouse is clearly inspired by romero’s day of the dead. but it’s all in good fun, and these repeat gags are never taken as rip - offs, only as knowing tributes .
and galactic civilization is shown recovering and rebuilding. the holocaust, however, comes back in the low - ems ending... minus the
inferred
part .
schlozman' s fascination comes down to what our zombie stories say about our brains, both when zombified and when trying to work out how to escape them. “we have these great big brains, and in every zombie film, we fail to use these brains. ” after schlozman’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, he found himself often unable to sleep, watching late night television as a way to relax. when night of the living dead was playing one night, it spurred him to write a fake medical paper about what a zombie brain would be like, which was then turned into a book with a cult following. for schlozman, this kind of dilemma was too fun to ignore – as he says, “you can' t be a brain doctor, see a zombie (especially the slow moving ones) and not think about the brain”. as for survival, schlozman is almost philosophical - “homer survived as a blind poet in pretty barbaric times, ” schlozman says. “i' d say that means we humans need more than ammunition and baked beans. ”
an actual zombie outbreak occurs in the wooded location / remote set of a low budget new zealand zombie movie; “tonight they come”. the premise is simple and the film delivers on this inspired promise. it’s post - modern in a wes craven’s new nightmare kind of way – only this time, we’re focused on flesh - eaters .
given the low - budget of isazh, the production value is the first thing i want to mention. all the technical aspects of the film are as good as anything i’ve seen in the genre. the camera work is really professional and the cuts and edits are clever and snappy they help add to the comedic nature of the events depicted in the film. the audio is smooth and ultra - clear, the kiwi accent is one of those ones that grates on me so i like to make fun of it (haha). this seemed to have a lot of over enunciating on purpose almost like a bit of a nod to the low - budget splettttter films (see what i did there…), that peter jackson made back before he had money. i could definitely feel guy channeling some of that and i thought it was cool, after all you can’t be a new zealander and not have loved those early films like “braindead” and “bad taste” and guy applies that same kind of guerilla film making to this .
our zombies bevan read and hannah martin literally rounded up customers and herded them to the table, great job guys, i' m going to give you a 100% pay rise .
the comedy consists of mostly awkward scenes involving wesley and other crew members, in particular the chef susan ford (christian), whom he has a crush on. poor wesley just can’t seem to say or do the right thing around her. a few jokes started out funny but carried on an extra minute or two and lost their initial gag. it’s a predictable kind of humour for anyone who has watched a horror comedy before, but that’s all you can ask for with a film like this. the film poster and introduction to the movie are great. i thought something seemed a little off in the opening scenes but then of course i realised what was happening. it’s played out a little bit like a soapie and then when the actors break character you realise whats going on. there are some cool but cheesy blood splatter effects and decent prosthetics. the action scenes were lacking and to be honest i was kind of hoping for more. i realise this is a blend of two genres and not meant to be taken seriously but in that case why not make it sillier and more over the top? ? i think being such a huge fan of those early nz splatter films i find it difficult to view a film like this as its own thing .
the film isn’t the best thing since sliced zombie flesh, but it certainly is worth a look. some of the jokes fall flat, while others totally hit their mark .
being a zomcom from new zealand everyones obviously going to compare this to peter jacksons low budget comedy horror phase, which its first time director guy pigden clearly plays up to. but it also borrows heavily from the plot of lars von triers epidemic, with the meta spin of being a zombie outbreak movie that takes place on a zombie film production set thats being written as its filmed .
in post apocalyptic la being rampaged by zombie like cannibals humans that have some kind of genetic infection local man renchard is forced to live a daily struggle as he trys to locate radio signals and find a cure .
wesley (harley neville) is an aspiring screenwriter who takes a job as a runner on a zombie film. however something in the water supply soon means that life is imitating art as the production suffers a real zombie outbreak. written and directed by guy pigden, this kiwi comedy - horror harks back to the early films of peter jackson with its cheap and cheerful production values and a lead character who is a loveable loser. what' s surprising is just how funny it is, the gags at the expense of the film production hitting the target every time, plus the zombie action is fun once that part of the story kicks in .
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wow, what the hell happened? with barely any homegrown narrative features released in cinemas or straight - to - video, nz cinema has gone from a triumphant sprint to an embarrassing hobble. i guess we pulled a hammy or something .
while the walking dead might seem like a curious obsession for people with phd’s, schlozman is far from alone. he is a board member of the zombie research society (zrs), a group formed in 2007 which is committed to the “historic, cultural and scientific study of the living dead”. it includes hundreds of thousands of zombie devotees around the world, working in film, the military and various scientific fields .
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. the ending shows at least some humans have survived some unspecified time after the game' s events, but really, the vast majority of people who survived the initial blasts would have died of disease, starvation or exposure, and that' s before considering the horrific damage done to the biosphere. as for the tasen, even in the best possible outcome only a handful survive, far too little to preserve the species. and it' s implied
keep in mind that this is an inferred holocaust. if the work explicitly states that there' s a horrible aftermath or if it ends on a cliffhanger (for example, depicting an undetected bomb about to explode), then it isn' t an example of this trope. also note that, despite the name, the
holocaust
doesn' t have to involve massive death; it could be as simple as a criminal getting away because the writers didn' t give the good guys enough evidence to convict .
( oh, i completely forgot about the dead room' s limited nationwide release. although, according to the nz box office, so did the rest of the country. )
'' i' m hugely excited the film is completed and it' s fantastic that we' re having the world premiere in dunedin,'' producer zoe hobson said yesterday .
the $ 250, 000 budget film, written by dunedin director guy pigden and produced by dunedin company 38 films, is based around a b - grade zombie film set which is attacked by real zombies .
stef is wearing a long sleeve shirt in the elevator, then it is gone when walking down the hall, but it appears again in the lab where she takes it off before working on the zombie .
in the stinger of sunset overdrive, a fleet of helicopter drones takes off from the ruins of fizzco' s headquarters to distribute their zombie apocalypse - inducing overcharge energy drink to the rest of the world .
smp recruits richard to help him continue filming the movie. richard is mauled by a zombie horde as part of an impromptu scene and smp allows himself to be killed on camera as part of his own movie .
the film isn’t the best thing since sliced zombie flesh, but it certainly is worth a look. some of the jokes fall flat, while others totally hit their mark. it’s this inconsistency in the punchlines which kept the film from rising high to rule the ranks of zombie - comedies. its obvious comparison would be the rom - zom - com classic shaun of the dead. it never reaches the brilliance which will leave shaun and his companions as forever beloved in our horror film memories, but it still has a fun concept, goofball antics, raw zombie goodness and characters you can root for .
despite the somewhat sombre implications of why we’re drawn to the zombie myth, zombie experts are in agreement that many kinds of scientific research, theorising and modelling are just more enjoyable when the undead are involved. some are jarringly practical, such as canadian researcher robert smith? ’s (yes, the question mark is part of his name) textbook about how to survive a zombie apocalypse. it uses mathematical models to predict which populations would be worst affected, mainly dense and urban areas, which won' t surprise anyone who' s taken the london underground in winter .
a possible reason why audiences may see a
happy
ending as an esoteric happy ending. contrast inferred survival, and contrast no endor holocaust for when this possibility is nixed by word of god or subsequent material. for more general plot points that are chilling when contemplated at length, see fridge horror .
as you can imagine, there are wall - to - wall splatter effects to be found. and most of them are imaginative, uber - bloody and quite effective. and from what i know, this is the first time a zombie - to - be is infected through sexual intercourse with an undead co - ed – resulting in things you wouldn’t expect to actually see. but the film happily takes us there .
a new zealand production, this is about a new runner on a movie set who is nice and genuine and therefore gets all the crap jobs, including dealing with a method - actor who convinces himself (per his movie - within - this - movie character) that a zombie apocalypse is coming. and when it does, well, just look at the title. …
with a small monster population, a serial killer or the government could inflict a genocide on the entire monster population .
with all this work being done on the living dead, it might seem that the members of the zrs are enthusiastic about the prospects of a zombie outbreak. should we start hoarding food and invest in an underground bunker somewhere in north wales ?
“zombies feel so much more relevant and even potent as well as useful as a metaphor, ” schlozman says. “when you make them real, they' re a nightmare. ” besides, as schlozman points out, there are “all sorts of more boring and frankly more dangerous ways to do ourselves in than a zombie outbreak” .
anyway, the gag is that the crew is filming a zombie movie in a remote new zealand location, so when an actual zombie outbreak infects the nearby town and spills over onto set, no one notices what is happening until all hell has already broken loose. that premise paves the way for slapstick setups involving characters oblivious to actual undead threats, and over - the - top actions that aren’t lampooning horror movie tropes so much as reusing them to redundant effect. writing wise, laughs are of a predominantly lowbrow variety, meaning buckle up for a lot of boner jokes and toilet humor .
for every civilization killed a thousand survived. if the blight had been allowed to spread unchecked, it would have become the only sentient being in the entirety of the beyond - a
stable necrosis
as one character put it. it was a cancer spreading through the galaxy, and the only way to kill cancer is to kill a bunch of noncancerous cells as well... . the countermeasure was a focused radiation beam on the grandest scale imaginable, a partition to the entire galaxy to isolate and kill the cancer .
the opening act starts pretty strong with good development in each of the characters personalities. most of the comedy works best in those early scenes and once it becomes evident an experiment has gone horribly wrong we get to the zombie aspect of the film but in the middle the script suffers and stumbles in momentum with a lack of action important to the progress of the story. the zombie sound effects and attention to detail is also evidently lacking, now that could be due to the low - budget or guy’s intentions may have been to keep it more comedic and not about the killing. the lack of detail is most noticeable in one of the main action sequences when the zombies in the film within the film are supposed to attack (naturally it turns into a real attack from real zombies haha). i took particular notice of the makeup effects on a lot of the extras and the crew didn’t seem to bother with giving them each their own style or look and that’s just either a time / budget thing or maybe a pure lapse in attention to detail, but in zombie film most people would expect a bit better .
i could spend hours gathering some actual numbers from 2014 and 2015 to make this point stronger, but it' s easier to state: we' re not even getting a national film awards this year. instead, it' s been pushed back to mid - 2016 .
the story for this one is, sadly, one we have seen before time and time again but it does take place on a movie set that does make it a little different than the other zombie comedies. the film also has tons of laughs and unexpected humor which is what is necessary to make a film entertaining when you lack originality .
you can' t fault that reasoning, either. if we ignore both star ratings and statistics, we' re still looking at a huge lack of diversity in this year' s films. we have a dance film, a gory horror comedy, a zombie horror comedy, a shark horror parody, a paranormal horror, and a homage to the' 80s. only born to dance makes a genuine attempt at drama, but even the biggest fan of the film couldn' t say
it' s this year' s the dark horse !
it' s a zombie film... but at its heart it' s a love story ,
says nerdy novice runner wesley (harley neville), trying to pitch a script to director smp (andrew laing) .
it also has a lot of comedic moments. it' s a horr - edy. you' re laughing one minute, you' re jumping out of your seat the next .
in
time heist
, the solar storm causes a literal holocaust as waves of fire wash over the surface of the planet. the bank patrons are last seen shouting in alarm, and madame karabraxos flees with what valuables she can grab, an act that suggests that even her most secure vault will eventually be destroyed by the flare .
* * spoiler alert * * the film follows production gopher wesley (neville) who arrives on the set of a zombie flick where he meets a barrage of characters including a closeted action star, a diva known the world over for nice hooters, a former athlete, and an aspiring actress stuck at the craft’s table. wesley is trying hard to impress everyone on set but fails to do so over and over again after several incidents and a random boner during a sex scene which resulted in him being shunned and outcast from the cast and crew .
greg continues raving about the coming of zombies. jessica claims that a hand attempted to grab her when she used a makeshift toilet. wesley is tasked with digging jessica a different latrine. while using it, jessica is attacked by zombies and disappears. jessica and greg reemerge on set as real zombies and attack. an actual zombie outbreak begins when the extras start turning undead .
although not a
holocaust
exactly, in con air, garland greene manages to survive the events of the film, and is last seen happily engaged in casino gaming. as we all know, demented, crazed serial killers, don' t just
get better
. had the movie run just a bit longer, we might have gotten to see him convert casino patrons into headgear .
blindness. how people survived the movie at all is a miracle in and of itself, several weeks without food or running water for at least the majority of the populace (in the novel, the female lead is the only person to retain their sight). there are... surprisingly few corpses, considering how food production must have stopped entirely .
then i realized he wasn’t unfairly coloring my view of the film at all. he was actually enhancing my ability to see exactly what sort of person found it funny, and ended up being the perfect barometer for measuring how the movie worked as it rolled along .
army of darkness has this in both endings. in
i slept too long
, his problem is pretty obvious, and in
hail to the king
, deadites can still freely possess anyone, anywhere, and ash is essentially doomed to live in a randomly zombifying world. the comics rolled with this .
blue gender. a few humans have survived gaia' s vengeance, and they can all live in harmony with mother nature, free at last of technology; then the fridge logic sets in - the only survivors will be physically strong people so if you' re physically disabled, blind, deaf, have a terminal disease, etc. then you' re hosed; mother nature hates you and you have no right to live .
a character or characters disappearing from the plot becomes this if they were last seen in a dangerous position .
most slasher movies portray anyone who doesn' t believe in the killer doll, the killer cyborg, or the killer dream ghost as jackasses who deserve to die, but in reality, why would anyone? there' s a good chance that the heroes just survived freddy krueger or jason voorhees only to go to jail forever. imagine that you just walked into a crime scene with 10 people' s entrails all over the floor and a blood - soaked sorority sister holding a butcher knife saying a reanimated corpse did it. would you take her seriously, and on the off chance that you did, do you think there' s a judge, a defense attorney, and 12 other people who would agree with you ?
the original night of the living dead 1968 is less explicit in its implication that the remainder of humanity is doomed at the hands and mouths of hordes of zombies, and more implicit that the remainder of humanity will destroy itself due to paranoia and mob rule. at the end of the film, ben is the only survivor of his group. upon trying to signal a posse of gun - toting zombie hunters, he' s mistaken for a zombie, shot in the head and killed. the posse piles him up with other dead zombies, specifically laying him next to the first zombie seen in the movie. the implication is that this posse will shoot first, ask questions later, a rather hopeless situation for ben and other surviving humans in his same position. there was also a mention of how the posse kept making their way into places heavily surrounded by zombies in order to find survivors, but never found any. meaning that no one was able to tell the living from the dead and just kept shooting on sight.
i survived a zombie holocaust is a 2014 horror film that was directed and written by guy pigden , and is his feature film directorial debut . the film had its world premiere on 16 august 2014 in dunedin , new zealand . filming for i survived a zombie holocaust took place in dunedin and was credited by its producer zoe hobson as being " the first new zealand film commission-funded feature to be made in dunedin with a local cast and crew in 15 years . " 
i survived a zombie holocaust is a 2014 horror film that was directed and written by guy pigden, and is his feature film directorial debut. the film had its world premiere on 16 august 2014 in dunedin, new zealand. filming for i survived a zombie holocaust took place in dunedin and was credited by its producer zoe hobson as being " the first new zealand film commission-funded feature to be made in dunedin with a local cast and crew in 15 years. "
i survived a zombie holocaust is a 2014 horror film that was directed and written by guy pigden, and is his feature film directorial debut. the film had its world premiere on 16 august 2014 in dunedin, new zealand. filming for i survived a zombie holocaust took place in dunedin and was credited by its producer zoe hobson as being " the first new zealand film commission-funded feature to be made in dunedin with a local cast and crew in 15 years. "