Zombie Wars (2007)

Zombie Wars starts with a voiceover. A young lady is explaining that they don’t know what started the Zombie Apocalypse. Or it spread by a comet (Night of the Comet anyone?) Others said it was god punishing mankind. Whatever the case, fifty years have passed since the zombies have overrun humanity, and now they are taking prisoners, breeding humans like farm animals.

The surviving humans live in camps and train from birth to fight. It is the only way to survive in a world where they are food. Our “good guy” survivors free humans bred for food, hoping to educate and turn them into more freedom fighters if they can.

Two brothers free several young woman from Zombie enslavement, complete with B grade special effects and awkward dialogue. Back at the camp the girls caged for their own protection. As Zombie slaves they don’t know English, but the Zombies did see fit to keep them clean and clothed, which does seem odd doesn’t it?

That night the Zombies find the camp, overrunning it. The Zombies take one of the brothers and his new female friend. They are lead to the Zombie camp and left together. I guess they are going to be used to breed and make more food?

The plot doesn’t get a lot better. There is some infighting, politics, but in the end the movie just doesn’t hit on all cylinders.

Zombie Wars Scoring

Zombie Wars scored a 21/100, putting it in Just Bad territory. The main thing that cost Zombie Wars points was the quality of the dialogue, the low quality special effects, and some of the acting was fairly wooden and silly. Combined with a well trodden storyline, there just wasn’t anything here that hasn’t been done better elsewhere.

Unless you are really bored, and just have nothing left to watch, I’d pass on Zombie Wars.

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Zombie Town (2007)

Zombie Town is a low budget zombie movie, but that doesn’t mean its bad. The acting is actually pretty good and the special effects were better than I would have expected. At least for a low budget film.

There was also plenty of gore and a decent level of violence, which is always appreciated, including the slug bursters:

Slug Burster

Yes, I think the special effects guy liked the movie aliens. The scenes where the bursters are coming out of the bodies totally took me back to the first Alien movie.

Zombie Town has some slow spots here and there, but it is also true to itself, which wins it a few points. I know some zombie purists beat this movie up because of the slugs being the origin of the zombies, but I honestly don’t know what the difference between a slug or some invisible germ being the root cause.

My personal favorite line is when Jake and Randy pull up to the old folks home and everyone is running out. Jake’s “This can’t be good line,” followed up by the decision to go in and see what’s happening is just perfect zombie movie logic.

Zombie Town Scoring

Zombie Town scores a 65/100, putting it at the upper end of the Rainy Day Movie segment. Save it for a dreary day and enjoy.

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