Name: I Survived a Zombie Holocaust (2014)
IMDb: link to I Survived a Zombie Holocaust page
Genres: Horror Country of origin: NZ.
Cast:
Harley Neville as Wesley Pennington, Jocelyn Christian as Susan Ford, Ben Baker as Tane Henare, Reanin Johannink as Jessica Valentine, Mike Edward as Adam Harrison, Andrew Laing as SMP,
Directed by: Guy Pigden. Written by: Guy Pigden,
The initial tableaux:
The film is set on a zombie movie shoot in remote area of New Zealand. The male lead actor is a jerk and the female lead is a diva. New runner Wesley, just out of film school, starts his job on a day when personnel are mysteriously disappearing.
The director, SMP, is a dictatorial prima donna. The cook, due to the quality of her product, is not beloved.
Delineation of conflicts:
As with every zombie film, the zombies want to eat the humans, and the humans do not want to be eaten. The humans eventually figure out how to kill zombies and gather the clarity to do the deed early and often. Ample evidence of this resolve does not deter the zombies.
When the two leads become indisposed, SMP tries out the runner and the cook as replacements. SMP would like to finish his film, but the zombies keep giving him personnel problems. Also, they seldom obey him.
Resolution: The film does get finished, but without SMP, his second in command, the lead actors, or the original zombie extras.
One line summary: Zombie film shoot.
Statistics:
Cinematography: 6/10 Sometimes fine, other times poor.
Sound: 6/10 No particular problems. The background music was too florid for me.
Acting: 0/10 There was acting?
Screenplay: 2/10 One bad cliche deserves three more.
Final rating: 2/10
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