We saw this one years ago when we first started our Cheesy Movie Night, way before the website was begat. I rememberd it being a lot gorier than it was; in fact, the box I got it in said it was rated R, but apparently the "R" means "Really nothing bad in this." Then I find it's really rated PG, and it shows.

But, that's not a huge deal. The story is pretty simple, but most of the characters are interesting enough to keep your attention for the movie. The tone of the flick is really light-hearted until the zombies come out and start kicking ass. And that they do, once those bitches break out, they get what they want. I liken these zombies to the ones in Burial Ground, as they are pretty smart, setting up traps and ambushes and what not. No gore to speak of, just a little blood, but some nice attempts at being creepy with people getting dragged off and such. The tone does a complete turn once the corpses start to rise, and things go from bad to worse pretty damn quick.

The music is pretty bad; Carl Zittrer, who went on to make music for such movies as A Christmas Story and Porky's, seems to be doing nothing but slamming his head onto his My First Sony Keyboard and handing over to the production team. A lot of it actually sounds like there is a racecar out in the distance somewhere, which I'm not sure if that was intended to "speed up the pace" or "completely ruin the effect." Either way, it's terrible.

A lot of the acting is par for the course. Alan is completely over the top as the "doesn't give a crap about anybody" director. There's actually a scene where he throws a person into the hoards of zombies to try and save his neck, and the zombies all look at him for a second like, "Jesus, what an asshole," then they start to munching.

I say go ahead and rent this one. I can't really recommend buying it, as there's no real reason to view it even twice, but it's a pretty good one for a once through.

There is apparently a remake planned for next year (2006), but it's being written and directed by Bob Clark himself. Sounds like that's going to be a pattern, first Larry Cohen says he's going to redo his killer baby flick It's Alive, now this. I guess we'll see how they go.

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Fox basically hit most of it on the head about this film. Though my main reason for me was, again, *ahem* atmosphere. Yep, I was somehow sucked into the story and "murkyness" of the meddlin' kids attempt to make their gol' darned movin' pic'shure. Kudos for making "creepiness" present.

The characters were enjoyable and played well for the most part. Nothing aboundingly noteworthy, but watchable at least. The ending was pretty cool as well. The zombies, as Fox noted, were pretty smooth and very adamant 'bout gettin' them some grub. Break yo'self, foo!

Thankfully I was able to overlook the "PG" scar burned on to the movie to surprisingly get something out of it. I do give the thumbs up for a rental, but it won't hurt your wallet too much if you find it in a bargain bin.

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