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Dorm of the Dead

USA 2012
produced by
Chelsea Benson, Max Johns, Michael Joyner (co)
directed by Tobias Canto jr, Tyrel Good
starring Aaron Sosa, Ryan DeLuca, Dana DiRado, Michael Curtis Miller, Brian Oviedo, Ashley Pegg, Chelsea Bowdren, Jonathan Michael McClune, John Shartzer, Jacob Fay, Jimmy Anthony Donahue, Brian A.Mulligan, Patrick Roddy
written by Tobias Canto jr, Michael Joyner, John Strong, Jimmy Anthony Donahue, special makeup effecs by Logan Tobia

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Will (Aaron Sosa) is the cool guy in his dorm: Sure he might be a lousy student and hardly ever attend any classes, but he always knows where the next party is, always knows where to get beer and drugs from. Sure, he is one of the most irresponsible guys you might have heard of, but he's always fun to be around.

Tonight is a big night, the best party ever - sure, it's Monday after Spring Break, but that means everybody's still somehow in partying mood and eager to give Spring Break a big farewell. However, there's one thing that spoils Will's partying mood: His parents have sent over his little brother Cory (Ryan DeLuca) to stay with him for a couple of days. Oh yeah, and there are zombies in the dorm, zombies of the flesh-eating variety ...

Before Will knows it, he has become the unlikely leader of a group of students whom he is to take to a safe place, the TV-studio on campus - which is not only the safest place in the neighbourhood, but Will and friend also want to send a signal to the outside to plea for help. At the same time though, Will has to come clean with his little brother, who thinks he is nothing but a useless slob. He also has to come to terms with the fact that more and more of his friends are killed by zombies. And then there's a girl among his little group, wannabe-girl reporter Gaylen (Chelsea Bowdren), who lures them from one dead end to the next just to get good zombie footage. And once they have made it to the TV-studio despite everything, Will has to learn that in order to get a signal out to the outside of the campus, they have to return to the dorm they came from to turn its satelite dish to face the city.

Against all odds, Will and friends manage to get the signal out, and Will and Cory finally bond, and they manage to get off campus ... but unfortunately, the zombie virus has long spread beyond campus, and the whole city has become a giant place of "eat or be eaten" ...

 

One thing's for sure: Dorm of the Dead is not the film that has reinvented the zombie genre - nor has it set out to be just that. It's also not the film with the most, best, most graphic or goriest gore effects. And the film's underlieing stories of brothers bonding in the eye of danger is leaning a bit too much towards the cheesy side.

All that said, Dorm of the Dead is a pretty likeable low budget genre effort. Maybe it's no more than a footnote to the rich history of zombie cinema, but the passion that was put into making the movie, into overcoming budgetary restraints, and the passion for zombie movies itself is very evident and somewhat infectuous. On top of that, the film's humour (yes, it's basically a comedy) never becomes obnoxious or moronic, and doesn't get in the way of the more horrific aspects of the film. Plus, there are actuially some good characters in this film (anything but a given with zombie movies). And Aaron Sosa makes a very likeable flawed hero, someone who you'd really like to be around, not despite but because of his mistakes.

In all, not a masterpiece by any stretch of the word ... but rather enjoyable if you have roughly 90 minutes to spare.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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