Sunday, October 26, 2014

Porn Star Zombies (2009)

With a title like this, there aren't high expectations for anything watchable.  Then the movie starts and confirms that this isn't going to be good.  It's black and white, but not in a meaningful or artistic way. Also it appear s they used the live sound from the mics. There is definitely no ADR and sometimes the ambient noise overwhelms the dialogue, (the scenes in the convenience store are particularly annoying).

I don't know if they ever said the name of the main character, but I assume it's Gavin based on the listing on IMDB.  So let's go with that.  Gavin is the director of a low budget porn, and gets his annoying friend Richard Magnet a job as an editor.

The two show up at the site of the shoot, a small rental home that is supposed to be in the middle of nowhere.  It's obviously not since we can see parking lots and what appears to be the back of a perhaps a convenience store on the other side of the fence.

The producer, who is always screaming at people, doesn't allow any protection on set.  So when one girl ends up with a virus, it is quickly spread to everyone else on the shoot. Too bad it's a zombie virus and soon everyone is turning into drooling ,lightly made up zombies.

I picked up this pack of movies knowing they would all be really low budget. The trailer for Office Dead seemed okay, and I love watching zombies movies, so I took a chance since the DVD was so cheap. Although this movie was not good, it turned out to be more entertaining than Bunker of Blood.  Also the bad acting isn't out of place in porn, so it wasn't as noticeable.

I'm not sure why they chose to film in black and white.  There isn't really any reason for it, unless perhaps they thought the blood looked more realistic?  This would also enable them to use chocolate syrup since they wouldn't have to worry about the color.  There's not a lot of makeup on the zombies and that which they have is rudimentary.  As expected there is a fair amount of female nudity, but there is also a shot of one guys dangly bits, (not sure why they didn't use the muscular guy for that shot.)

A lot of the jokes are crude (as would be expected), and would probably be funny if you're a teenager or in a frat. The characters aren't the most likable and you won't care when they die.  Overall the movie isn't good, but it did get more bearable as it went on, which is the opposite of lots of movies, and I did laugh a few times later in the film.

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