Zombie Town (2007)

How sad is this?

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Great title, OK zombie flick.Two brothers run afoul of the hungry undead while on a tow truck run. Parasites are the cause of these zombies, much like in NIGHT OF THE CREEPS. Decent action, creepy zombie makeup and some gore although it could have been a lot worse in that last department. Without checking, I am guessing this was a first effort by those involved, possibly spun off of a student film. The young age of most of the actors and their unpolished performances, to put it mildly, point in this direction. There is a sequence near the end that put me in mind of both NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and RESIDENT EVIL, and is just as suspenseful. Try it, you may like it.

Zombie Town is set in the small town of Oatis in Vermont where brother's Jake (Adam Hose) & Denton LaFond (Phil Burke) run a garage. They get a call to remove a pick-up truck blocking one of the outer roads, once there they decide to check a nearby cabin to see if the owner's of the truck are about but find a bloodbath & are attacked by a zombie which bites Denton on the shoulder before Jake shoots it dead. Jake heads back to town for help & tells Sheriff Lou Brubaker (Steve Nasuta) who is also informed that due to an accident the main road out of town is blocked & with various strange reports of people getting bitten by other's it becomes apparently that there is a zombie outbreak. As more & more of the town fall victim to the flesh eating zombie plague it's up to Jake & his ex girlfriend Alex (Brynn Lucas) to save the day & stop the infection spreading any further...Written, executive produced, produced & directed by Damon Lemay this is another low budget horror shot on a camcorder & edited on a PC type effort of the kind that has flooded the market over the past several years with the advent of cheap professional camcorders & editing & special effects programmes for the home PC, I usually hate these poorly thought out, atrociously made & cheap looking films & while Zombie Town isn't the worst of the bunch I still thought it was crap. The film certainly doesn't take itself seriously & does try to have some humour in it but it's just not funny, the Sheriff being attacked while sitting on the toilet & the scene where the old ladies turn into zombies at bingo for me were just embarrassing to watch. Then there's the complete lack of plot, there's these slug like parasite things that turn people into zombies for no reason whatsoever. I mean they still survive & reproduce outside, there's no explanation of what they are or where they came from & it's just some random plot element thrown in there taken from Night of the Creeps (1986) &/or Slither (2006) that is never elaborated upon. Then there's the notion that these slugs pass from person to another because of bites, well how does a half foot long slimy creature pass from one person to another because of one small bite? Yeah, that is never explained either. The pace is alright, if you are a die hard low budget zombie fan you might like it but I just look for more in a film. The character's are slightly better than usual but that's not saying much & the film never really flows that well & I never thought the town was seriously under attack as we only ever see one or two zombies on screen at once.The gore isn't that impressive either, there are a few bites, a rake in someones head, someones leg is cut off with a chainsaw, some melted zombies & there's lots of very watery looking blood splattered around, the likes of George A. Romero & Lucio Fulci were making gorier & more realistic looking zombie films 30 odd years ago so this really doesn't impress. It's certainly not scary, most of it takes place during the day & it's too badly filmed & put together to have any suspense or atmosphere.Filmed in Vermont this has reasonable production values but still has that cheap low budget look about it that I really can't get into or like. The acting is varied, people pull funny faces & do their best but it's all rather uneven & a little camp at times.Zombie Twon is a film about zombies taking over a town, that's it really & while the makers intended this to be funny it isn't, while they intended it to be gory it's tame & overall I wouldn't want to see it again & I am just glad I didn't spend any money watching it otherwise I would have been unhappy...

I stumbled upon this movie in the video store. I blew off the dust and took it home. It started out like a straight dead movie then morphed into more of a spoof.I don't look for great special effects. I don't look for deep meaning. I expect enthusiastic participation and a good attempt at making an internally consistent story.This movie had the things I look for. The story is not new but internally consistent. The acting is not great, but everyone was doing his or her best. The effects were gory enough.There was nothing missing from this movie. Anyone who gave this less than 10 stars doesn't get the whole undead/indie movie scene.There was one character who reminded me strongly of Dwight Schrute from "The Office." Because of him, I'd give the movie an extra star if I could

I hired the movie cause it looked like one of those really exciting zombie flicks that would have me on the edge of my seat, jumping up and down at all the scares. My brother soon caught sight of it and decided to watch it with me...The first scene where the "zombified" hand is sticking up out of the ground, we both burst out laughing at how "un-zombie" like it was. The special effects were horrible, the plot line was standard and un-exciting. I mistakingly put this on the top of the to-watch pile.About 35 minutes through I decided that I had enough of a bad movie and switched it off.Waste of a half-an-hour if you ask me