A-Z Movies, A: "Aaah! Zombies!!"

Note: This movie is listed on IMDB as “Wasting Away,” but I rented it from iTunes as “Aaah! Zombies!!” and that is the name listed as the title at the beginning of the film.

Recommended by:
Chuck (friend)

Movie Stats:
Released 2007 (USA)
American, in English
Director - Matthew Kohnen
Stars - Matthew Davis, Julianna Robinson, Michael Grant Terry, Betsy Beutler

Plot Summary:
When a military experiment goes awry, friends Mike (Davis), Vanessa (Robinson), Tim (Terry), and Cindy (Beutler) are turned into zombies. This is their story.

Warnings:
Blue language; violence & gore; implied sexy times.

Bad Stuff:
This is entirely a personal preference issue, but the humor is really silly & goofy & heavy on the gross-out factor. That’s not typically to my taste (although there are exceptions to this rule). I didn’t find it very funny. I only laughed a couple of times.

I was kind of bored. The movie felt longer than it was. It seemed like it took the main characters a long time to clue in to what was actually happening to them.

Good Stuff:
On the other hand, it was fairly amusing that the main characters were so oblivious. I liked that they couldn’t grasp the enormity of the situation. It seemed like really natural reaction to me. It just went on a touch too long.

I liked the basic concept of it, a zombie movie from the zombie’s perspective. It felt fresh and different.

The Verdict:
I’ve had a difficult time deciding how to rate this film. It wasn’t really my thing, but I recognize that it wasn’t a bad movie either. I know a lot of people who would think it’s hilarious.

Toward the beginning, I was annoyed by how bad the special effects were. Then I realized that it was intentional, an homage to the old George Romero-type zombie flicks. There were a lot of subtler, more clever, things like that that kept me from disliking it wholesale. I guess, overall, I would classify this as entertaining for one viewing, but a film that I’m unlikely to watch again.

I give it 3 stars.