How to Kill a Zombie (2014)

 

Survivalist Mack takes his son Jesse into the woods to teach him survival skills and make a man out of him. Jesse isn’t that interested in roughing it, and uses most of their gas to burn ant hills.

While heading to buy more fuel, the two discover there is a zombie apocalypse. Jesse makes his Dad stop for a young woman who was stranded because he wants to be her hero.  When they get back to the city, such as it is, they see people hanging out of an office building yelling for help. Their solutions is to crash through the zombies to get inside and try to save them.  Not the best decision since they end up stuck inside as well.  

There we meet some stock characters and hear a joke that will be ongoing for the rest of the movie. While repetition can be funny, but it didn’t work here. The joke wasn’t that great the first time and it was annoying to see them setting up the pitch over and over again.

This is a horror comedy but both genre fall flat.  It’s a super low budget movie made in the less populated part of Maine. Two of the writers plays the leads so the plus side  is you know it’s played how the writers intended.  Jesse was kind of endearing but Mack’s mugging was a bit too over the top.