How to Kill a Zombie (2014)
Mack and Jesse are a father and son survivalist team, in the making. Jesse just wants to do his own thing, his own way. A sudden outbreak of zombies centers on an office building, trapping the occupants. Mack and Jesse happen upon the scene, on their way to an underground bunker. Against Mack's better judgment, they stop and try to help. The situation becomes grim as the zombies breach the building, and the office workers are picked off. Mack and Jesse attempt to lead the remaining group to safety. Can they some how learn to see eye to eye, during a zombie holocaust and save humanity?
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The two problems with zombie movies are 1) there are two kinds, One that's great like oh, Night of the Living Dead (which should STOP being remade), and one that's utter crap like this one. 2) Anyone thinks (and usually fails) they can make one. This one falls in the latter category. It's absolutely terrible from beginning to end. Directing: Bad Story: Bad Acting: Bad SFX: Bad This is just bad, bad, bad. There isn't one thing worth seeing in this mess. It's just an exercise in bad film-making. They should use this as an example in film school on how not to make a movie.
The plot is very original, depicting a father and son at war with the undead, as well as at times, with each other. Along with Mack, Jesse and Ashley, there is a whole band of supporting characters that will leave you in no short supply of laughs. From the sniveling, power hungry Norman, to the "innocent" and confused Steve, there is truly something everyone can enjoy. Freight Train Films truly accomplished a Hollywood-grade movie, between the quality of the acting, the set design, and the SFX, it makes me proud to be from the state that this was filmed in. If you're looking for a movie to take your family to see this Halloween, I highly suggest How to Kill a Zombie.
Sometimes budding chefs try to put two ingredients together and it just doesn't work. Comedy and horror have been done and done well before, but it says something about the paradox of life when you see a film of this nature that is neither funny nor scary. Even the ambiance of the Saco drive in could not save this movie. The lead character Mac (The starring role the director was humble enough to bestow upon himself) is hollow and wooden both in the acting and directing. Only after noticing him use social media to proposition "fans" to vote it high on IMDb (so it would sell more dvds) did I feel compelled to share my thoughts. Such high art film making. Just the title of the movie suggests the same plot twists we haven't seen since Hitchcock's Vertigo but matched with the intellectual stimulation you come to expect from movies where extras are the stars being shot down and hacked up by the overacting renaissance man of our time Bill "Freight Train" McLean!If you're looking for good local horror I would highly suggest Corey Norman's "Hanover House" and Shawn French's "Wrong House". The most scary and funny thing about this movie is realization of the minutes it steals from your life. Take it from me and don't waste your time.
I went and saw this movie at the Saco Film Festival and I thought overall that it was a decent movie..It wasn't high budget but than again it didn't need to be..It was a nice twist to not have it be your typical zombie movie, this was a zombie comedy and I was doing some nice laughing..I would recommend this movie..Kid FriendlyNot much language if any to worry about.Nice to see a movie based in Maine.Good job on the cast and crew..