Zombie Night

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The usual big productions zombie films are nowadays cliché: you immediately will know who'll survive and who'll die. Films like Zombie Night, instead, are unpredictable, they really give you the thrill of - is him/her going to make it?. Generally speaking, unless there's (much)humor in it, the quality of small budget zombie films is acceptable,other ways the film becomes a Z movie (generally zombie films are already B movies). This film is thrilling, creepy and moving; the cast is (really) good, the peace is very good, the photography is essentialand it's a good thing for a change. In addiction many zombie clichés are avoided giving the story more creditability. I really enjoyed the time watching this film and I highly recommend it.

Gifted director John Culager of Feast Trilogy fame turns his camera to a story of two families fighting for survival during a zombie uprising. The screenplay penned by Keith Allan is based on a premise of Richard Schenkman that these flesh eating creatures come out at night and those struggling to stay alive must make it to the morning. Culager creates incredible tension and suspense with powerful imagery that's unrelenting in its horrific intensity. The cinematography is exceptional and the manner in which scenes are lighted give the film a stunning atmosphere of terror. Anthony Michael Hall gives a superb performance and is ably assisted by a distinguished cast of veteran actors. Shirley Jones, Daryl Hannah, and Alan Ruck are excellent in roles they imbue with depth and humanity. These are people we care about and not simply figures running desperately across the landscape of the typical horror movie. This film is unique in many ways and never relies on zombie clichés. The surprises are many, as are the rewards in what is truly an unusual cinema experience.

Warning : The following paragraph is sarcastic. The movie is very complicated.It makes us think and wonder in many ways: 1.The zombies suddenly rise out of the ground on one day.Where were they till now?Playing Poker or something?What the hell?Why did they come up? 2.A girl gets attacked by a zombie in the middle of a road.Where does she run off to for safety? - A cemetery. What the hell? 3.Usually horror movies make us want the people to survive and escape the horror. But this one. It actually makes us want the characters who are acting dead so that we don't want them to live anymore to make us suffer. 4.I was alone in the big theater(Here in India), and I still didn't get scared.It had comedy,adventure and all other crap but it missed the one thing it needed most-Horror. 5.In the movie it lasts for one night and when the sun comes up the zombies died. But what happens when it turn night again? Zombie Night 2 ? What the hell? The movie is a waste of time and energy and just sucks the joy out of your life. PS. Why did they have that old lady in the movie? She just made me wanna rip the screen off.

Ok. Went into this hoping for the best as I like Anthony Michael Hall, Daryl Hannah and Shirley Jones. I also can accept that a 'TV' movie will be a bit more dialed-down to appease the masses and the censors. Which is the only reason I gave it 4 stars...I could look at Daryl Hannah all day. What I can't accept is complete, and utter stupidity on the part of the characters. That, and the fact that all of the characters were eminently unlikeable and irritating, from Shirley Jones' blind mother to the petulant teenage boyfriend to Anthony Michael Hall's protective father character, they all come across as utterly unprepared for something as mundane as an empty peanut butter jar... "WHAAAT? There's NO peanut butter ? How am I going to make a P&J without peanut butter????" From leaving perfectly working automobiles, wondering if they can 'hotwire' a car when one member's car is in their garage to taking shelter in a SEE-THROUGH flimsy plastic structure to the family looking at someone as if they had just massacred a village for locking a hysterical person in a bedroom, the movie just irritates to no end...well...there IS an end, fortunately. But it takes a lot longer to get there than the stated run time.

Anyone who watches Asylum-distributed Zombie Night expecting a fine movie is, of course, delusional. However, there are fun bad horror movies and garbage bad horror movies. This one falls in the latter category and is the cinematic equivalent of a greasy hamburger purchased at a grimy kiosk: nauseating, still part of the group it claims membership of (food, movies), just barely. Without the charming naivety of stuff made by people who were genuinely trying, these lazy flicks are awful in the most tiresome way. Their zombies or monsters are never scary, but the reptilian greed you glimpse behind the project is unsettling in a Lovecraftian sense. Here, the people cashing their paychecks are California Mountain Snake, Ferris Bueller's best friend and Johnny Smith - not Christopher Walken (who is not above terrible movies himself, but prefers them with a little more spirit), but the one from the Dead Zone TV series. They face a zombie invasion. Cue gore, abysmal dialogues, tedium. Searching for fun horror movies you might have missed? Look elsewhere: Neil Marshall' Dog Soldiers, Jaume Balaguero's REC, the Pastor Brothers' The Last Days, Bong Joon- ho's Gwoemul, John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps, George Romero's Diary of the Dead, John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, Dario Argento's The Cat o' Nine Tails. That greasy hamburger is looking less and less inviting by comparison. 2/10

I have seen a lot worse zombie movies in my day. 1 of them being a German zombie movie where it is nearly the entire movie gone until the start learning to shoot for the head, which was much worse than this movie. However I was happy to see a few actors in this movie who while not at their previous popularity were still good enough to somewhat make this movie watchable. The worst part of this movie is Shirley Jones character. I have never seen a character in any zombie movie or TV show I wanted to die for just sheer annoyance. Half of her time in this movie is screaming, or being dead weight. At 1 point in the movie a girl is screaming for help outside of Shirley Jones's characters home, and she just starts yelling saying the girl will get them killed, and I have to say this. Even if your in a world where you have never heard of zombies, if you think someone just got killed outside your home why would you yell potentially alerting the killer of your presence. The movie though is definitely worth a watch, if you need a zombie fix, just don't expect it to be on par with any of George Romero movies, or The walking Dead.

This movie was an absolute train wreck! When you start rooting for the zombies, that's how you know you could care less about any of the characters surviving. Their choice in characters... They picked the best not to star in the best? Is that what we do know? Anthony Michael Hall ... Loved him way better when he played the nerd and geek (Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles). It's as if he was money hungry so he played this role. Darryl Hannah... Way better playing Elle (Kill Bill Vols). And lastly Shirley Jones, who was given such a bad script that I was actually rooting for a zombie to kill her. Why would any of these actors even take an offer that had to deal with Syfy? I mean, what kind of movie was this anyways? This didn't even fit the cliché version of zombies nor the modernized versions! This movie got more and more frustrating as it went on. I strongly recommend not watching this movie, for life is too short for these types of movies to even consider watching.