Zombies of Mass Destruction

Rating: 

Year Released: 2010

Zombie Speed: Slow

Cause of Zombie Outbreak: Terrorist biological weapon

Best Zombie: Tom’s Mom… she eats her own eyeball.

Most Creative Weapon: The weed whacker!

Best Death: Reverend Haggis, who has his arm ripped off by a zombie that then proceeds to beat Haggis to death with his own severed arm.

Sub-Genre: A self-proclaimed “Political Zomedy”

Our Review: While we give this film some credit for attempting to use the zombie movie medium to make a point about xenophobia and homophobia (among other political statements), those points seem to fall a bit flat. The jokes, however, do not. Zombies of Mass Destruction is a clever and unique independent horror-comedy with remarkably high production values for a low budget flick. We would have liked to have seen the two concurrent story-lines come together with a little more payoff but but apart from that this was a great film.

By the way, this movie is in no way related to the comic book of the same name and apart from the “biological weapon” thing, the two aren’t at all similar. The comic is pretty great though so I wouldn’t feel right not giving it a plug on here as well (and I believe it’s been optioned to be a movie too!).     

Up next week(ish) is Aaah! Zombies!, because “zombies are people too”.

For more info on our ratings system go here.