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To reduce the losses in their war in Afghanistan, the USA has developed
a serum that brings bad soldiers back to life as flesh-eating zombies, but
zombies that can distinguish friend from foe. Seems perfect, right? There
is only one problem: The zombification is infectuous, and thus everone
bitten by a zombie becomes a zombie himself - and thus, the Taliban army
soon has as many American-hating zombies as the American army has
Taliban-hating ones, which totally diminishes the advantage the serum was
supposed to give the American army. The project soon was scrapped ... but
a sample of the serum soon finds its way to a Canadian tattooist, Scratchy
Dan (Justin Degagne) ... Cut to a Canadian village, where a trio of
punks (David Montour, Brett Hawley, Phil Fader) have nothing better to do
than hang around in the local pizzaplace - much to the dismay of its owner
Pete (Chris Waldick). Eventually, the punks offer Pete a deal: If he has a
certain tattoo done on his arm by Scratchy Dan, by far the filthiest
tattooist in the region, they'll never return to the pizzaplace. Our punks
think this is a hilarious idea, but Pete actually goes through with it ...
and returns a zombie. Now as a zombie, as specified above, he's pretty
harmless, until he sees the three punks, and before they can help it, he
has bitten one of them, Dee (Brett Hawley), who subsequently turns into a
zombie as well. While our punks soon smash Pete's brain in, they decide to
keep Dee alive (or rather undead, or ... I don't know), because he doesn't
hurt anyone, he just rots a bit that all. Then though, two jocks (Peter
James Bridges, Terran McCall), natural enemies of all punks, arrive, and
before you know it, Dee has killed one of them. Punk Druff (David
Montour) and jock Stu (Peter James Bridges) decide it's time to hook up
and go and eliminate the source of the zombie plague, which they soon
trace back to Scratchy Dan's, while the other punk and the pizza place's
staff (Brandon Dean, Terris Taylor) do their best to keep the escalating
zombie situation under control, with at best mixed results, and
eventually, Dee somehow manages to escape the pizzaplace and get himself
arrested ... to spread the zombie virus with the help of all the lowlives
he meets in his detention cell ... This film might not exactly
be a revelation, not even within the zombie genre, but as far as zombie
comedies - which are a dime a dozen these days - go, this is definitely
one of the better films that have emerged of late. Mainly that's due to
the film's brand of humour that's disrespectful to the zombie-genre in a
way not seen since Return
of the Living Dead - a film that obviously served as inspiration
but not as blueprint - and stays enjoyably clear of all those post-modern
in-jokes that sadly have become staple of the horror comedy subgenre as
such. Add to this a colourful cast of characters played by a competent
cast of actors, and a few gorescenes that put more emphasis on
inveentiveness than on blood and guts and you got ... well, not exactly a
masterpiece, but a cool party flick best served with beer - and I don't
know about you, but oft-times that's all I need ...
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