Zombie Apocalypse 2011: Back
Review
Year:
2011
Director:
Nick Lyon
Stars: Ving
Rhames, Taryn Manning, Johnny Pacar
Time:
87 mins
Interesting SyFy production directed by Nick Lyon (which
has a bunch of TV movies under his belt and 2 DTV features including a species
flick) a virus has broken out over the world turning 90% of the population into
crazed undead killing machines. In an effort to stop the virus spreading they
EMP the planet, not a fantastic idea I think as that would surely impede any
cure attempts?
It stars the old zombie movie powerhouse since he starred
in the quite successful Dawn remake that’s right old Ving Rhames.
Taryn Manning (who has a lot of decent film credits under
her belt from a few years back recently mostly TV series) she stars as Ramona
one of three survivors we see at the beginning.
Johnny Pacar also stars (was in Playback a film I reviewed
a little while back, also some TV stuff more recently) he plays Julien part of
Rhames survivors. Ramona’s survivors are entering civilisation after hiding out
in a cabin for a while running low on supplies they venture into town.
Her group consists of friend’s well one of them possibly
something more; the other is Crab-man! Yes that’s right Eddie Steeples from my
Name is Earl.
After her possible love interest becomes zombie chow they
are saved by Ving, Julien and the rest of their team.
They are on their way to a rumoured safe haven on the
island of Catalina. They take Ramona and crab-man to get geared up in a sports
store. Along the way to Catalina we lose some party members and close to the
end they even get separated. Two of the party members split when they get
ambushed by zombies, the other half is rescued by a team of archers.
As always on THN I won’t spoil the ending for you.
This film has some interesting and brilliant ideas for a
zombie film but it’s a little let down by some clunky acting at points and the
inability to stick some better emotion into their lines, but that is only at
times it’s not always like that.
Set wise and location wise? There’s some brilliant and
stunning locations used that really help keep the story fresh and from
stagnating even though on occasion you can see the odd sunlight glint of a car
on a faraway bridge. Luckily I’m only the one who usually notices this stuff.
Effects wise we have the usually CGI splats and bullet
holes here that are becoming popular in zombie films and even on the walking
dead. Thankfully like a lot of zombie flicks lately the make-up effects are
great they look dead and they don’t look like someone just painted green the
actors who are zombies do a decent job of shambling or even running (the
fresher ones can in this movie) on the whole you could do a lot worse than this
movie and for a low budget affair it’s well worth the watch I’ll give it a
strong 4/5 stars from here at THN.
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