Zombie Town (2007)

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 have no clue what movie I watched because due to all the high reviews this movie has gotten, either there is another Zombie Town or the reviews are being left by the crew who worked on it.Honestly...this movie was bad. I won't say awful, I won't say terrible, but please...it was BAD. I tried to watch this movie after being bombarded with the commercials for it. I am a HUGE fan of Indie movie making and movie makers due to Hollywood's decline into the abyss--in the form of the crap they are pumping out today--and the recent run on remakes that were fine the first (or in some cases even second!) time around.The first time I saw Zombie Town I turned it off a half hour into it, it was so bad. Then I tried to watch it again last night with a more open mind.Sorry...not even my mind is THAT open and though I forced myself to watch it until the end, it got no better.Many of the characters were shallow and one dimensional, the zombies ridiculous (I would have had to stand and laugh at them in the same situation...not run) the dialogue hokey and though the special effects were okay, some people like decent dialogue to accompany the gore.The opening scene of the hicks in the hunting cabin was such low stereotypical "redneck" garbage that I was repulsed. Had I not been curious about the rest of the movie (regrettably) I'd have turned it off right there. What a way to open a movie! NOT!For those out there who don't watch a lot of Indie movies, not all of them are bad.There are many, many talented movie makers out there working with little to no budget whose movies will never see even TV release, (and that is sad) so don't believe everything you might read when it comes to this movie with the..."for a low budget movie it was great," excuse.No...this movie was simply a bad movie that also happened to have a low budget...but I don't think even a large budget could have saved it.

This movie has the worst acting, the worst dialogue, the worst effects. I kept watching it for 30 minutes hoping it would get better. It didn't. I quit watching this movie and started studying for a test I will take a month later. If all movies were this bad I would have excellent grades. The two main actors came across as unsympathetic pricks. The high point of this movie is the camel toe that one actor's love interest is showcasing about five minutes after the opening credits. Even the soundtrack to this movie is awful. This production is shoddy. If they spent for than $50.00 making this movie, the investors were seriously ripped off. I could take an MP4 video recorder and make a movie on par with this. There is a scene where a police officer is walking in front of a tractor trailer wreck as it explodes. It is clearly blue screened like a skit on Saturday Night Live. They didn't even attempt to make it look realistic. But the worst part is as the truck explodes and a fireball erupts into a mushroom cloud, the policeman keeps walking and is oblivious to anything going on behind him. Fake Fake Fake. You can only take suspension of disbelief so far. I got this movie with a free rental coupon and I still feel ripped off. This is the dumbest movie ever made and the world is dumber because it WAS made.

Thought this was going to be a horror movie, but it is more of a horror spoof along the lines of FEAST or SLITHER although not as good as either of those movies. The story is pretty generic: boy meets girl, then boy meets zombie, zombies proliferate and wreck havoc, boy and girl kill zombies and live happily ever after. Yet, in this movie everyone other than the zombies appear to be braindead. There is not much new here except the actors who appear to be relatively unknown, and if this is any indication of their talent they'll likely remain unknown for a long time to come. In several of the scenes the characters had delayed responses and exhibited schizoid behavior to the unfolding events which initially was just awkward but became progressively annoying as these stilted performances continued. Not only couldn't the actors handle their lines, but they couldn't even handle the props. Check out how awkwardly the lead actor handles the shotgun; it's surprising he didn't point the muzzle at his own face. The special effects in this film are really lame. Some elements (like the leeches) appeared to be low budget knock-offs of flicks like SLITHER while other aspects (like the oozing blood) seemed to be borrowed from a third grade science project ---like those artificial volcanos that ooze a mixture of baking soda, vinegar and food coloring.At some point in the production everyone involved must have realized that this wasn't going to work as a horror film so they started to throw in everything from bare breasts to bad jokes --- the problem is that they forgot to make the jokes funny (the breast were pretty lame too). Here, a laugh track would have helped to cue the viewer into when a joke had been told. Like, oh --- now I'm surposed to laugh --- good to know, thanks.Overall it's a bad movie, but it gets three stars because it is somewhat entertaining as a horror spoof.