Zombie Town (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 01 Sep 2023
• Country: Canada
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21431644/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/zombie_town
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Comedy, Horror
• Runtime: 92 min
• Writer: Peter Lepeniotis, Michael Samonek, Michael Schwartz
• Director: Peter Lepeniotis
• Cast: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Henry Czerny
• Keywords: small town, zombie, show reel,

	4.2/10
	29% – Critics
	29% – Audience

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Not Funny Or Scary

I saw Zombie Town, starring Marlon Kazadi-Riverdale_tv, Child’s Play; Madi Monroe-Attaway General_tv, Girl’s Night With Madi Monroe_tv; Dan Aykroyd-the Ghostbusters movies, Tommy Boy; Henry Czerny-the Mission: Impossible movies, Ready or Not and Chevy Chase-the Hot Tub Time Machine movies, the Vacation movies.

This is a low budget movie by R. L. Stine of Goosebumps fame-he also has a cameo near the end of the movie. Marlon plays a High School kid that works at their towns’ only movie theater. Henry is his boss. Marlon hates horror movies but everyone else in the town loves them. In fact, the town is named after Dan, a horror movie director that hasn’t made a movie in years but he has announced he has a new movie and will premiere it in the town theater. Madi plays Marlon’s crush that loves horror movies. When the movie is finally played, it turns everyone-except for Marlon, Madi and Dan-into soul sucking zombies. Yep, they don’t eat brains, just suck your soul out and turn their victims into zombies, too. Marlon and Madi have to track down Dan to try and fix things and Chevy is Dan’s old friend that knows things about the curse. Chevy only has a couple of scenes, one at the beginning and one at the end. I guess that it’s supposed to be a funny horror movie but it’s not that funny or scary. If you do happen to watch it, there are two scenes after the end credits start. One as they start and one at the very end.

It’s rated PG-13 for bloody images and smoking and has a running time of 1 hour & 33 minutes.

It’s not one that I would buy on DVD. I don’t think it would be a good one to stream, either. If you really want to see it, I’d wait until it comes to basic tv.

A mediocre film that has some enjoyment….

5.7/10

I was hoping that this would be a random, new gem that wasn’t really advertised, but that expectation was not met. It’s not that this was a terrible movie because I did enjoy myself. It just didn’t hit the spot. It felt a little like a B-movie filmed by students just starting out on their filmmaking journey.

The film is described as being a comedy-horror. It definitely has its moments (limited) in how funny it actually is. A light chuckle with a snort here and there. The scare factor is really non-existent as I was caught off-guard, maybe, three times.

The acting felt non-committal. No big, or even little, shows of emotion including fear, happiness, friendship, or love. I liked the actors in their roles. They were definitely suited for them. Just believing they were in the situation and felt something for each other would’ve been nice.

The story is what intrigued me to check out the film. I never watched the trailer going in so the expectations were purely based on the synopsis. The way the zombies come about are different than what I have ever seen before, as well as their mannerisms, which also confused me slightly.

Overall, I didn’t hate the film, but I didn’t love it either. I left the theatre feeling meh. Honestly, “Community” (tv series) has done better films in thirty minutes than what this one did in ninety. The story can stay the same, but the acting needs to be better, more passionate. I can’t even recommend checking this out on a cheap night as 5/8 people in my showing left before the end. I will admit, slightly, that I may not be seeing it for its full worth, and it may be a nugget, but for now it has to deal with being a middle of the road film in my eyes.

That’s all for now. Thank you for taking the time to read my review. Until next time…. Enjoy the show!

Who the hell was this film made for???

Seriously, it was too childish for adults, yet too adult for children. It can’t even decide what kind of film it even wants to be. One moment it’s taking the story seriously enough to be a charming cohesive film and the next it’s complete bereft of any smarts and is cringe to the max. It was baaaad. If it wasn’t for those charming moments, there would have been nothing to save this film from being one of the worst ever made.

Next, lets talk about the Goosebumps vibes this film liberally uses to mask it’s awfulness. I get that R L Stine created this story, but you either go full on Goosebumps and make it completely kid friendly without the swearing and blood, or ditch that all together. Felt like a cheap knock off in the end, and further confused me as to why this film exists.

I’m not even going to waste my time complaining about the fact that everybody who’s supposed to be a teenager looks like they’re in their 40s, including the actual teenagers. Embarrassing.

My last comments on this film will be that it is far too long. This honestly would’ve worked better as a special Goosebumps tv movie on Hulu or something like that. Not that it would make it anything above average, but easier to swallow than what we got. Literally, when I heard the main character say “Let’s go back to the bike shop!” I almost shouted “WHAT FOR, TO WASTE MORE OF OUR TIME?!?!” at the screen.

Overall, I couldn’t recommend this one. Even for those looking for a nostalgic trip into the Goosebumps days, it’s still terrible. This film makes even the worst episodes look like Oscars material.

½ a simple zombie out of 5.