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It's not the best day for Randy (Kenneth Westeng): First, his car gets
stolen, then he loses his job, and finally his girlfriend leaves him. No
wonder he gets so drunk the police has to pick him up and put him into a
drying-out cell, where he spends the next five days in a state of drunken
coma - and when he finally does come to, everybody in his village
seems to be gone, everybody but dopehead Herb, the mysterious but useless
gunslinger Buckshot Callahan, the Mexican caricature Paco who has stolen
Randy's car ... and oh yes, flesh-eating zombies. After a few too many
run-ins with the zombies, our four survivors decide to go to the place
where it all started, the local university, and put an end to the horror -
but this costs the lives of both Herb and Paco, and because Buckshot
appears and disappears at random, it's up to Randy to save the day ... but
the university is held by Randy's own estranged brother and the
all-American hero Colonel, who ultimately turns out to be both the
president of the USA and the baddie of the whole piece who wants to blow
up the city to obscure his zombie experiments gone wrong. But while Randy saves the city
from the president's bomb, the prez himself is overcome by Buckshot, who
now turns out to be Randy from the future ... and suddenly it's Randy
against his own brother, who wants to sell the zombie serum (there's
always a zombie serum, isn't there?) on the black market while Randy wants
to save the world - and while Randy manages to defeat his brother using
the very zombie-serum in question, he is ultimately himself only saved by his
brothers zombified blood ... ouch! This film, a rather cheap amateur
movie, is of course far from perfect: The lack of budget is seen at around
almost every corner, the actors range from bad to almost ok and are
obviously recruited from the filmmakers' circle of friends, the English
dialogue (the film was shot in that language) was clearly not checked by a
native speaker, and the effects are crude at best - and yet, the film is
anything but bad, it's an at times extremely funny genre parody (even
though the jokes are a bit hit-or-miss seen as a whole) full of oddities
from the zombie and action genres that have been annoying us in American
movies for years (but totally work here), and even the crude effects and
bad CGI seem to serve their purpose here in showing how ridiculous
FX-laden American blockbuster cinema has become lately. Now this movie
could have been perfect with a better cast and a higher (though not much
higher) budget, but even as it is, it's good entertainment - in a party
movie sort of way.
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