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Until recently, Ralph, Tessa, Mason and Clifton had been the best of
friends, an inseperable quartet - which all changed when Ralph and Tessa
started dating, much to the dismay of Mason and Clifton. But then, when
Ralph is just about to pick up Tessa from work, zombies attack, seemingly
from out of nowhere. The problem is, nothing helps against these zombies,
no shot in the head, no sawing in half, beheading, setting on fire,
nothing, they just walk on, even their severed limbs seem to be able to
develop a life of their own. Then, by pure accident, Ralph pours coffee on
one of the zombies, and that does the trick, makes him disintegrate. Soon,
Ralph, Tessa, Mason, Clifton, two cops and a hobo all arm themselves with
squirtguns filled with coffee and go zombiehunting. And it's not long
before the whole city is as good as zombiefree once more - when our heroes
stumble upon Doctor Winston, creator of the zombies, who has actually
built them as artificial humanoids to aid in simple tasks. He has just
failed to perfect them yet - however, he's hell-bent on building some
more. Doc Winston is actually so much of a mad scientist that he
actually has to be shot dead to be prevented from releasing a new wave of
zombies onto the city - but with his dying breath, he drinks the potion he
has developed to turn himself into a zombie ... and that's bad news,
because since being half-human he's now impervious to coffee ... Wisconsin
Project X is by no means a perfect movie, but it's an interesting
zombie comedy, to say the least: Director Christian Ackerman's directorial
style - that relies heavily on close-up shots and eliminates the wide
range shot from his cinematic language entirely, that makes extensive use
of shaky handcamera shots that for a change actually translate into
immediacy, and that reduces its colourcharts to monochrome tones - makes
sure the film looks unlike any other zombie flick, and his sense of humour
that's somehow reminiscent of (but not derivative of) the Evil
Dead-movies does translate to audiences rather well. That
said, the film on the other hand suffers from a very one-dimensional cast
of characters, a too simplistic story, and the almost constant use of
shaky handcamera-shots does get on one's nerves after a while. Still, fun watch ...
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