Stick with this DVD called Zombieworld as it gets better as it goes along. A perfect feature for the budding make-up and special effects artists and all those who just love to see Zombies splattered and dismembered. At first I thought it was just another rude, crude and silly take off on the undead, but as you get into each of this collection of short films, they compel you to watch more and more. Each of the stories are produced, directed and acted by different filmmaking crews giving their own views about creatures of a world gone nuts.
The movie starts off introducing news anchorman Marvin Glott (Bill Oberst Jr.) for television channel KPRS. He announces that a deadly virus was released from a scientific research center and has killed thousands of people. It is moving around the world and a single contact with a carrier will turn you into one of them. So begins stories from all over the planet of grisly attacks and devastation on Earth.
Each of the tales is as gruesome as the previous and the production value gets better as the film continues. The first tale, “Dark Times” shows people trying to escape from zombies by running a marathon of sorts. Following a TV on-air report, we find a Jesus like character who fends off zombies with the help of Judas in supposedly the first creation of the walking dead in “Fist of Jesus”.
The list continues with “How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse” that pops up in between each film, “I Am Lonely” involves a strange friendship, “Dead Stop” uses cams at a gas station to tell this gross tale, a women protects herself in the short story “Home”, “Dead Rush” opens in a men’s locker room, “Teleportal” puts its main character inside a zombie video game, “Certified” (one of my favorites) gets a mailman who reads horror comics intrigued by a young girl’s story and “Brutal Relax” (my top choice) finds a man just released from a psychiatrist’s care taking sun on a beach.
The winners here are the technical and video crews who design the zombies, costume and make-up and then make them active. The ghastly results of the attacks with intestines being pulled from the bodies by the undead, body parts being torn off and blood gushing from their kills is the work of the make-up and special FX visualizers like Natalia Ozlav-Cybulska, Nia Kate Russell, Bryn Cumming, Mitchell Stacy, Alex Chandonk Graham Taylor, Hanna Day, Remy Couture, Adrian Cardona, M. Pilar Ochando, Rafa Dengra, Monica Marguia, Adreian Cardona, Santa Nartinovic Marjanovic and Kristina Maric. Add to the list the guy who has to mix the fake blood, the prosthesis people who created the guts and skeletal bones, and many more crew that made the films a ghoulish horror fest.
Zombieworld has not been rated by the MPAA but contains extreme violence, copious amounts of gore and offensive language. The movie has its good moments, but gets amateurish at times. If you like horror comedy then you should pick this DVD up at a store for the several good walking dead tales. Be cautious when deciding to allow immature children watch the film as it does have some scenes that can cause a young person to have nightmares.
Specifications and additional video information:
Cast: Bill Oberst Jr., and many more to numerous to mention
Director: Adam Myette O’Brien, Adriàn Cardona, Cameron McCulloch, David Muñoz, Jared Marshall, Jesse Baget, Jonathan Brown, Luke Giudici, Paul Shrimpton, Peter Horn, Tomy Woodard, Vedran Marjanovic, and Zach Ramelan.
MPAA Rating: Not Rated, Contains horror violence, gore, language
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min
Video Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English and Spanish (with English Subtitles)
Format: DVD
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Video: Widescreen 16×9 full screen Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
Number of Discs: 1 Disc
Distributed by: RJL Entertainment
Writer, critic, film editor John Delia, Sr. has been on all sides of the movie business from publications to film making. He has worked as a film critic with ACED Magazine for more than 20 years and other publications for a total of 40 years. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Florida. John is a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association and Critics Association of Central Florida Send John a message at jdelia@acedmagazine.com
