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Steve (Kristopher Turner), a guy doing management seminars, is taking
his wife-to-be Tina (Crystal Lowe), his sister Sarah (Kristen Hager) and
his brother-in-law and best mate Craig (Shawn Roberts) to his parents'
cottage in the woods to prepare for his wedding, which is a mere 7 days
away - oh, and to warm Tina and Sarah up to one another, because they hate
each other's guts. Bad thing then that Steve is bitten by a mosquito
carrying the zombie virus, and soon enough, his heart stops beating, he
can't eat regular food anymore, develops an appetite for brains, and
starts to slowly decaying. Otherwise he's fine though, and acts like a
regular human. At first, Tina figures Steve is getting cold feet because
of the wedding, and she does everything to whip him back into line, but
slowly she has to come to the conclusion that he really is a zombie -
which of course is no reason at all for her to cancel her dream wedding.
There is one big problem with Steve though - he needs human brains, but
can't bring himself to kill someone (which really is the only way to get
one's hands on a fresh human brain, right) - so it's up to Tina and Sarah
to provide him with humans ... which is the first time the girls actually
bond - well, sort of anyways. Finally, two zombiehunters, Max (Stephen
McHattie) and Penny (Emilie Ullerup) arrive, and while Max wants to kill
Steve right there on the spot, Penny realizes Steve is the human/zombie
hybrid that could cure the zombie virus once and for all. So Penny shoots
Max when he's about to shoot Steve, then she promises Steve is going to be
famous once she has run a couple of tests on him and developed the serum,
and and and - and that doesn't sit at all well with Tina, who is hell-bent
on marrying Steve in seven days ... A fun zombie flick that
dares to take the genre into another direction and abandon all genre
mainstays in the process - without ever neglecting basic genre rules of
course. So while the typical zombie movie is basically a game of survival,
this one is about human relationships and the problems resulting from them
- with a zombie thrown in merely for good measure. This doesn't always
work 100%, some of the jokes come across as a bit on the blunt side, the
horror aspects of the story (after all, zombies are creatures of horror,
period) are a bit too subdued, and especially the zombie hunters are a bit
too broadly clichéed, but then again the whole thing is well-paced,
well-played, and despite all the criticism pretty laugh-inducing in
itself.
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