Aaah! Zombies!

Seen for the first time in December 2012.

"Aaah! Zombies!" is almost a good movie. I really like the premise or at least it almost convinces me that this movie was made with a good idea in mind. But it's really uneven in quality. When the pace starts to lag it relies on silliness and a faux campiness to force itself past the plodding dullness. It more or less works though. In the right frame of mind, this is an entertainingly silly movie.

It's also completely forgettable. I've already forgotten how it ends, but for the vague notion that despite some heroic sacrifices there is more or less a happy ending. But I can't even remember if a certain key character survives or not. Don't care either.

I might also like this better if it seemed a little less professionally done. All of the flaws in this movie are in the script, in the sense that not every scene was thought out in a way that makes sense within the larger framework of the picture. This sort of film would work better with the sort of low-fidelity flaws one finds in good indie or schlock cinema.

One final observation I made while watching this film, the word "douchebag" used as an insult is used exclusively by people who are themselves douchebags. This is similar to the word "bama," where a similar principle applies. Other than that, I mostly found the characters in this movie to be more charismatic than not. Grade B-.