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Melvin (Leif Fuller) is your typical high school nerd, the guy who has
no friends, doesn't really fit in with other people, gets nervous around
girls ... and oh, he has glasses. And he is the prime victim of a trio of
punks (Yonatan Schultz, Ben Chinburg, Hudson Hongo), who love nothing
better than to play pranks on the guy ... until one of their pranks kills
him. Enter Norton (Patrick O'Driscoll), another nerd with glasses, a guy
who suffers from the pranks of the punks who have killed Melvin now they
have graduated and gone to college. Norton is secretly in love with Wendy
(Lilly Maher), Melvin's sister, and she likes him as well - which only
makes things worse, because she has an abusive boyfriend, Chuck (Joey
Stutz), who doesn't like Norton one bit and isn't afraid to show it -
violently. One day, on his way home through a graveyard after a date
with Wendy has horribly backfired, Norton stumbles upon Melvin's grave ...
just when Melvin rises as a zombie. Somehow Norton manages to behead
Melvin, but not before Melvin has bitten Norton. Now this is bad, mainly
because Melvin is a bit pissed that Norton has killed him (again) and now
in return possesses Norton and turns him into a zombie in the night hours
to exact his revenge on all those who have wronged him - which in his mind
are not only the three punks who have killed him or Chuck or whoever but
the entire humankind, pretty much. Every morning after Melvin has taken
him for a killing spree, Norton wakes up in his bed with only vague
memories of what has happened ... and the occasional dead body in his
apartment. This is especially bad for two reasons, 1) because his
relationship with Wendy is finally going places, and she probably wouldn't
approve of the special bond he has to her dead brother, and 2) because
those he kills eventually return as zombies, and zombies are never good. One
evening Norton leaves Wendy in his apartment when going on another killing
spree, totally forgetting the dead cop he has hidden in his closet earlier
on, and when he arrives, he finds the love of his life zombiefied - and
finally sheds anything human about him to become a full-fledged zombie
himself and be with her for all eternity. You have probably
caught the drift from my review, Melvin is a very blunt horror
comedy, a film that prefers to play around with body fluids rather than
relie on subtle humour. However, somehow Melvin works, basically
because it's fast-paced enough for certain jokes not to outstay their
welcome, does actually tell a story that is not predictable from beginning
to end, does not over-emphasize the obvious, storywise, and features a
nice punchline in the end. All of this hardly makes Melvin a
masterpiece, but in its relative simplicity paired with its humourous
approach and plenty of gore, it's a great party movie.
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