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Kudzu Zombies
USA 2017
produced by
Daniel Wood, Per Ericson, Juri Koll, Mark Newton, Jason Rochelle, Laura Warner, Miller Greenlee (executive)
directed by Mark Newton
starring Timothy Haug, Moses J. Moseley, Wyntergrace Williams, Clay Acker, Escalante Lundy, Kiyomi Fukazawa, Miles Doleac, Scotty Whitehurst, Johnny McPhail, Michael Joiner, Montana Byrd, Jeremy Sande, Lynn Forney, Kaitlin Mesh, Michael Emery, Megan Few, Susan McPhail, J D Rogers, Dakota Byrd, Joshua Powell, Laura Warner, Bill Luckett, Casey Heflin, Bruce Penton, Ronnie Lee Michael, Randall Tartt, Christian Hokenson, Andrew Douglas, Dale Mcnair, Miller Greenlee, Max McDonaldson, Chris B., Michael LaCour, Daniel Wood, Joyce Paul
story by Christian Hokenson, Mark Newton, Stephan Stromer, Daniel Wood, screenplay by Christian Hokenson, music by James Covell, special effects by Jonathan Thornton
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Lonnie (Timothy Haug) is a crop duster pilot, spraying the fields
around a stereotypical Southern US smalltown with some chemical that ought
to take care of the kudzu vine that's presently overgrowing the country.
Sure the chemical's experimental, and maybe he shouldn't trust the
scientists in charge (Kiyomi Fukazawa, Miles Doeac) quite as much, but at
heart he's really an alright guy who tries to help wherever he can - like
after work at Ed's (Escalante Lundy) food stand at the local blues
festival ... where he also meets his ex Kayla (Wyntergrace Williams)
again, who has left town for college and now returns with her new
boyfriend Trent (Clay Acker), who's of course a bit of a big city asshole.
And then zombies attack the blues festival (of course it has to do with
the experimental chemical mentioned above), and Trent is one of the first
who's bitten. And of course, Lonnie offers to save him and lead a bunch of
friends and associates to safety, and conveniently they find guns and ammo
aplenty on their way - but zombies there are many while there isn't really
a cure for Trent's condition, so it's little surprise that things go
downhill soon ... It's not that this film isn't well-made -
there are zombie kills aplenty, loads of gore, well-inserted CGI effects
of all sorts (including a bigass explosion) - so pretty much everything
that would make a die-hard zombie film happy. Problem is, there's little
beyond that, the plot's clichéed to the core and populated by paperthin
characters repeating cheesy lines from similar movies for the umpteenth
time. Plus, at least for European tastes, the merciless celebration of
Americana (including gun-worshipping of course) is a bit hard to swallow,
expecially since the whole thing's terribly campy without in the least
being tongue-in-cheek. That said, again there's plenty to like for the
dedicated zombie afficionado - but not so much for everyone else ...
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