Rating of
3/4
A Zombie Film with Meaning
Franz Patrick - wrote on 09/23/08
Even though this movie is more amusing than scary, I enjoyed it because the creepy tone was consistent. Even if something funny is happening on screen, danger is always looming around the corner so the audience is always prepared that something bad will happen. I think the premise of it is brilliant for its time: what place better to settle when zombies are everywhere than a mall where one can get pretty much everything he or she needs to survive? I actually imagined myself in the characters’ situation and found that I would’ve done the exact same thing as them: try on clothes, run around and eat food as much as I want, whenever I want. As for the movie’s special effects, such as the zombies biting into bodies while blood and guts are spurting out, they look really fake… but they look really gross to the point where it’s really effective in its own strange (yet droll) way. I thought the performances from the actors are campy but it fits the occasion. Social commentaries such as consumerism, feminism, abortion… are implied just right most of the time. This film is deserving of its title of being a horror cult classic because it is brutal and disgusting yet brilliant in more ways than one.
