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| Also known as ‘Bruno Mattei’s Zombies: The Beginning.’ |
An absolutely brilliant concept - Take the basic story and script of the movie ‘Aliens,’ but switch out aliens for zombies!
A no-brainer success formula, right? Well…
Subtract acting skills, depth of characters, plausibility and consistency, along with any form of budget or production value and you are a little closer to the mark.
Technically, a sequel to ‘Island of the Living Dead,’ (itself a hodgepodge of zombies, demons, vampires, and ghosts on another island,) Zombies: The Beginning starts immediately where that one left off, with lead starlet, Yvet Yzon, adrift on a lifeboat about to be rescued, à la Aliens.
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| Fresh off of 'Island of the Dead!' |
From there, the similarities are numerous and blatant, almost embarrassingly so, to the point where one must assume that this film was directed towards those who had never seen Ridley Scott’s outer-space action/horror!
But all this aside, This just really is not good. The acting is amateurish at its most convincing, and the overall feel of the sound and setting is reminiscent of a 1970s soap opera.
The strangest twist, however, was the forced mother/queen alien equivalent for the undead. This took the shape of a sentient and talking disembodied brain who hoovered unborn babies from their captive mothers with foil covered dryer hose-like appendages to create these ridiculous looking hybrid “zombabies.”
This is an weird, unpleasant and unfulfilling film. When held up for scrutiny to my Zombie Movie Rubric, ‘Zombies: The Beginning’ got itself an extremely generous score of 0.625. This typically translates to a ‘do not spend money on, do not spend time on, and if you are in the company of anyone talking about it, leave the room.’
As such, this review serves more as a warning against indulging one’s curiosity concerning this film on impulse, (like I did!!!) Because it does have a really cool cover image on the DVD case!
Deceptively cool, right?
Good ol’ Youtube has a version of the trailer for you to attempt to sit through, if you have two and a half minutes that you don’t mind throwing away forever!
Good luck! You were warned!
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