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Music producer Dameon David (Adam Hatfield) thinks he has found the
perfect business plan: Undead musicians. This is perfect because on one
hand these guys are sure to get plenty of free hype due to their being
undead, on the other, them being undead he doesn't need to pay them, they
don't need health insurance - meaning the investment is minimal. Of course
though, such a sensationalistic and greedy approach to musicmaking simply
has to call protesters onto the plan, who blame the undead for stealing
musicindustry jobs, and during a concert of Dameon's first zombie band,
the Vicious Vegans, one of the protesters, Jimmy (Jeremiah Galvan) frees
the undead from their chains, and despite the assurances of the management
to the contrary, the zombies immediately start to attack, kill and/or bite
people. And those who are bitten turn into zombies as well. Eddy (Ian
Kane) has only come to the Vicious Vegans concert because his best friend
Ciez (Nick Marinnuci) has persuaded him to - and because it was a chance
to see his ex Lisa (Laura Savage), whom he just cannot forget. And he just
started to get friendly with Lisa again when the zombie attack started. He
and Lisa got seperated almost immediately, and now he, Ciez and of all
people zombie liberator Jimmy set out to free Lisa from the zombies and
find a way out of the place, because since the concert has started, city
hall has decided on a new zombie policy, and now they just wall up the
concert venue to contain the undead - and everyone else - and then gas the
place. Under heavy losses - Jimmy is killed, Ciez is turned into a
zombie and has to be killed by Eddy - Eddy manages to free Lisa and make
it to the venue's roof. However, Eddy has been bitten as well, and he now
has a hell of a time to not turn on Lisa but granting her a safe escape
while fighting off the zombies. In the end, Eddy is gassed with all the
zombies, but Lisa is allowed to survive ... Films with
inventive fun titles like Pop Punk Zombies only rarely live up to
their titles' promise, and oftgen it seems because the filmmakers aren't
really trying. With that in mind, Pop Punk Zombies doesn't do too
bad - sure it falls short of its promise, but at least it's fun to watch.
Basically, the film is an hommage as well as parody of 1980's zombie
cinema, or more specific, Lamberto Bava's Demons
- with jokes. Now whatever you think of the concept as such, the result is a
bit hit-or-miss: There are several suspenseful situations, and some of the
jokes a genuinely funny, but on the other hand, the film's characters are
almost uniformly flat and lack development (just like in Demons,
admittedly), the plot is entirely predictable, quite few shock scenes are
marred by obvious lack of funds, and too many chances to give
the humour some depth or go somewhere with the "musical
zombie"-concept are missed. In all, not great, but might work very
well as your typical party movie - but then again there are way better zombie
comedies out there!
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