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Zombies ar eint he process of overrunning the city ... but that doesn't
mean that it's ok for our girls (Ally Melling, Vanessa Kessinger, Meghan
McDowell) to smoke in the toilets of the local catholic school - even if
their school uniforms are way too short to be approved by the pope. Instead
of freaking out about the zombie threat though, the girls much rather talk
about their boyfriends, whom they intend to meet at the bar that night,
and even the boys (Mark Brown, Johnny Pubis, James Hudnall, Lance Steele)
aren't really sure if they actually should get out of town - after
all, that might be too much of a hassle. Eventually, guys and girls meet
up at the bar that night - but by that time, the zombies have started an
all-out attack, and suddenly our heroines are left fighting for their
lives, after all their male companions have been killed off - when the
nuns from school (Diana Burton, Tovah Miller) arrive and shoot the zombies
threatening them. This film simply can't deny its no-budget
amateur roots, no matter which way you look at it: the live-sound is
appaling during most of the picture (the punkrock soundtrack is pretty
cool though), the editing is incredibly off-mark, the sets are barely
above someone's living room-level, the special effects simply fail
to convince, the narrative is choppy at best, and the actors aren't always
up to their tasks either ... yet Catholic Ghoulgirls is not
just another bad movie made by a bunch of genre geeks for next to nothing,
because despite of all its shortcomings, and despite obvious parallels to
the more popular (and better) Shaun
of the Dead, some of the film's scenes are in fact wickedly funny
and show the work of a writer/director who has really invested some
thoughts into his film. One just has to hope that Eamon Hardiman a)
keeps on filmmaking, but b) pays more attention to the technical aspects
(i.e. sound, editing) of filmmaking the next time and gives his script a
workover ... and maybe in a few years he will be responsible for something
really good.
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