Epidemic (2018)

 

It’s somebodies birthday today. Michael wants Dana to have a great birthday so he invites his friend whose girlfriend Mandy hates her, a neighbor, and Dana’s estranged father.  Her father is an alcoholic whose wife is a shrew and also hates Dana. 

When her father doesn’t show for the party, Dana is disappointed.  His wife is confused when she calls and he’s not there since he left for the party hours earlier.

The awkward party gets even more awkward once Mandy starts vomiting on people.  Earlier in the day poor unlikable Mandy found a plastic covered hole in the basement wall of their new apartment, ripped through the covering, and crawled in to find a hidden room. Her lack of stealth caused a clear bottle of liquid to break and make her feel ill. So now she’s released some sort of epidemic on our unsuspecting party guests.

When Dana’s father arrives, he finds Dana in hysterics and smacks her. Instead of calling 911 about the dead bodies, he carries Dana out of the apartment and off to a motel. Yeah it makes abolutely no sense, as does most of the movie or the idiot characters in it.  

There is nothing in the movie like the cover. There are no zombies, just people spitting foamy toothpaste and lolling around in the house. The characters make strange decisions. And why are Dana and Mandy dressed up like they’re going to a club when they are at a five person birthday party in someone’s home during the day?