Last of the Living

Acceptable
Last of the Living isn't an outstanding film, but at least it's not terrible. With all the independent zombie films out there you can trudge through a lot of them before finding anything that's "acceptable" let alone outstanding, so it was nice that Last of the Living didn't just outright suck. Unfortunately, since it wasn't outstanding, there's little reason for anyone outside of die hard genre fans to pick it up and watch it, as is the case with most average zombie films.

The story follows three friends who move from mansion to mansion kicking back playing video games, watching movies, drinking beer, and occassionally venturing out into the wasteland for more supplies or just to fight some zombies and boredom all in one go. The characters are acted out well enough (there are some slipups where lines were delivered so badly I felt removed from the film, but there aren't too many of those), and there's tons of dry humor between them. I have to say that my sides may...

Review of the Last of the Living
This was not a horrible film. It was actually ok. The cinematography seemed fluent, there was decent story and the actors were on it. The only thing about this film that could have been better was a stronger script. The tags on the cover, at least the one I bought suggested "destined to become a cult classic" by Terror 4 Fun & "...a breakthrough zombie film that injects a high dose of hilarity" by Revenant Magazine. I don't see this being a cult classic but at least a good watch for a hardcore zombie film fan. As for the "Hilarity", I had some smiles crack through most of it, close to the end the humor got a bit better, but not by much. I think this would have been a better film if it had been more serious a film, however having said that, the humor it had seemed more on a realistic level than most. What there was didn't seemed forced.

At the offset of the film I thought it was going to be 28 Days later meets Shaun of the Dead, but that went away quickly, and happily so, as...

NEW ZEALAND ZOMBIES
The movie starts out with three men living together. The electricity is still operating even with no one to attend to the grid or power plants. Electricity is simply magic. They get bored with their current location and opt to go find a new place to live. They pile into a killer Ford and drive along until they find a church which they think is defensible. They enter the church and end up finding a female scientist and her father who has a bite mark. He dies and the four of them take off. She is part of a plan to save the world. The plan is to go to the local hospital. Get some zombie blood and process it. Fly off to a nearby island where there are fellow scientists and save the world. The guys have nothing better to do so they join her. While the infection is viral, zombie blood, which splatters all over people doesn't spread the disease, only bites from slow moving zombies with the classic one leg drag. The movie contained humor, good dialouge, and an easy to follow plot with...

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