Well folks we have reached that plateau
of the week as always. The end of it if you will. I hope your
Halloween plans work out, that you play it safe and avoid drinking
and driving while costumed. Oh and ladies skip the “Sexy”
outfits. Seriously for most of the country it is going to be too
cold to wear a fraction of that flimsy material outdoors. Now then
I decided to take a peek at some of the indie titles via zombie films
and after reading titles like MILFs vs Zombies, Porn
Star Zombies, Ninjas vs Zombies and A
Zombie Invasion I just threw up my arms in the air in
disgust. So settling for an indie title I found a flick shot on film
stock and not some crappy HD Camcorder. This is Zombie Town.
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| PACKERS!!!! |
Normally I cringe at the prospect of a
writer/director combo because it can lead to misery and pain but
Damon Lemay knocked it out of the ballpark with a comedy horror film.
Hillbilly hunters up in a cabin in the woods(Are you kidding me??
At least the name of two horror movies, man!) are getting
hammered and bitching about their wives when they accosted by
zombies. One infected attacks the others and it is fairly gory but
looked impressive on film. Roll opening credits as we have no rhyme
or reason why there are zombies other than a nod to the local swamp.
Local mechanic Jake LaFond (Adam
Hose of Zombie Town) and his brother Denton (Phil Burke
of Hell on Wheels, Dirty weekend, Wind Walkers and Legend of the Lich
Lord) are trying figure bills and how to make ends meet
inheriting their late father's garage. They get the call for an
abandoned truck in the woods and our brothers LaFond make their way
to the plot device. A quick nod to his ex-girlfriend Alex (Brynn
Lucas of The Vault, Convict, Eve of the Dead and Mondo Americana)
Denton tells Jake he needs to get off his slacker ass and make
something of himself.
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| Wow, never seen projectile vomiting like that before. |
Denton is attacked by one of the
hillbilly zombies and has a few issues with that. Otis is a remote
town up in Vermont, mountainous and isolated so only one major road
leads in and out of town. Jake notices something odd in the town of
Otis as people seem to be keeling over. Bad batch of KFC perhaps?
Whatever the case may be, there are some of the residents getting
back up and becoming ravenous zombies in search for the flesh of the
living. Alex is an environmentalist/scientist of obscure notion
finds something unusual.
Jake's rival Randy (Dennis
Lemoine of The Hiking Trip, Illegal Aliens, Tricks of Love and The
Invention of Lying) teams up Jake trying to figure out what
in the nine hells is going on. Randy is a decent enough guy but has
his eye on Alex.
Parasitic slugs seem to infect and
incubate in the bodies of the victims creating more incubators i.e.
zombie hosts. Their reproduction is exponential creating more
parasites.
Can our trio handle this infection
before spreads? Will the whole town be infected? Must everything be
solved with a napalm strike?
Between the fairly amusing dialogue,
gore effects are pretty effective and keeping the cast down to a few
allows for clever interaction. Contained in a small town with local
support, the silly gorefest was fun.
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| Scaffolding protect us!!! |
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