The Worst Film Ever

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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

A Californian town is hit with a zombie plague where the dead rise & walk around for 24 hours. Two families attempt to fight each other for the control of a panic room in one of their houses but their feuding only gives the zombies added opportunities for a meal.This is yet another of the ultra-cheap, insanely rapid turnaround features from the Asylum, an independent production studio that has become infamous in previous years for its mockbusters (ultra-cheap knockoffs of big budget Hollywood films designed to make an easy buck by fooling customers into renting or buying them). However, after a recent deal with the Syfy Channel, the Asylum has abandoned its bread & butter mockbusters for something worse – ultra-cheap generic monster films.Zombie Night is a film that at first glance might not be considered as anything other than an ultra-cheap zombie film with some familiar faces & a reliance on cheap makeup effects & a pedestrian plot. On closer inspection, the faults only get worse. The Asylum makes it a practice to rush their projects through from start to finish in only a month or less. They have improved their skill at this to the point that Zombie Night looks more polished than some of the mockbusters they had previously done (& for once there is not a ridiculously cheap CGI effect in sight). But only slightly.I could make my case on the rushed production values alone but there are some other problems, mostly in the writing stage. Personally I can write a film script in under 30 days with reasonable attention to detail & a cohesive story with no plot holes. The Asylum's stock troupe of writers (some of which do double or even triple duties in other areas of the production) seem to use up only about a week or so for their scripts. This might be achieved by cutting corners on the narrative to the point that nothing makes any real sense. Zombie Night might have three writers on board but it seems that they might have only written a rough draft & gotten that pushed through without revising it. The characters here have no real motivation other than simply reacting to things around them. The Romero template has been so commonly used & adapted for so long that the basics for zombie mythology have been taken for granted, to the point that the premise for Zombie Night – that of a 24-hour zombie plague – might be seen as normal for those who don't normally watch horror films, but for us dedicated horror fans, this kind of ridiculousness cannot pass by without us noticing it. The aforementioned 24-hour zombie plague is stupid & doesn't make any sense – zombies will not, once activated, last for only 24 hours. They will last for as long as their bodies hold out, which is almost indefinitely (or in some cases, if decomposition is halted, even forever). And the other thing I noticed that broke standard zombie rules was that some characters are bitten but do not turn into zombies – another violation of zombie film rules.Zombie Night might have gotten my "poor" rating if not for the fact that director John Gulager, the son of actor Clu Gulager & a decent director in his own right, has done a remarkable job in investing the zombie attacks with a reasonable degree of energy. While Zombie Night might not reinvent the zombie wheel or even be considered a passable zombie film, it did have some reasonably energetic zombie attacks & the basics were not completely violated enough to be a real turkey. A dodgy but not entirely uninteresting zombie flick.

This movie was an absolute train wreck! When you start rooting for the zombies, that's how you know you could care less about any of the characters surviving. Their choice in characters... They picked the best not to star in the best? Is that what we do know? Anthony Michael Hall ... Loved him way better when he played the nerd and geek (Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles). It's as if he was money hungry so he played this role. Darryl Hannah... Way better playing Elle (Kill Bill Vols). And lastly Shirley Jones, who was given such a bad script that I was actually rooting for a zombie to kill her. Why would any of these actors even take an offer that had to deal with Syfy? I mean, what kind of movie was this anyways? This didn't even fit the cliché version of zombies nor the modernized versions! This movie got more and more frustrating as it went on. I strongly recommend not watching this movie, for life is too short for these types of movies to even consider watching.

I would first like to say, that the comprehension skills of the individuals depicted in this movie rank right up there with a snail...in fact, a snail would probably catch on quicker. The main protagonist hits a man with his car, but when he gets out to check him, the injured guy attacks one of the girls in the car...she screams for 15 seconds or so, yet when the driver turns to look it's as though this is the first time he's seen her...is he deaf? The few cops that you see in the movie are so un-cop-like that they are more like parodies than actual police. You couldn't possibly be that stupid, and live as long as they have. Wooden acting by the 'stars' of this movie simply enhance the trite foolishness of the entire film...but the crowning jewel is still the staggeringly mindless inability of the people in the movie to comprehend any of the events going on around them. The events in this movie take place, I assume, sometime in this century and one would imagine that somebody in this film would have seen a zombie movie...they've been making them for 40+ years...after all how long would it take you to figure out what was going on?

I watched Zombie Night recently and i must say it was better than i expected.After hearing about the film originally being shown on the SyFy channel i wanted to see it being a fan of some of the older Zombie films and because i wanted to see what Daryl Hannah's performance would turn out.Minor spoilers ahead!Long story cut short. The action in the film starts almost immediately when a teenage girl,her friend and her father encounter zombies at a cemetery, what follows from there is a test of survival between two families and several other people wanting to find a way out without being infected or killed until daylight.Most viewers are going to be rooting for or perhaps inquisitive as to the outcome of Daryl Hannah's character. All i will say is that she does face a few dilemmas throughout the film which climax in her personality changing quite rapidly,her character Birdy who stood out the most for me along with her friend Janice who had a memorable final scene! The special effects were alright too although could have been more graphic at times!Overall i would give this film 6 out of 10!