Pluskylang
Great Film overall
Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
thewillt08
Zombies of Mass Destruction is possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. I'm not sure if it was supposed to be a "B" Sci-Fi channel movie but it wasn't even that good. There was really no plot, no point, poorly developed characters, and just an overall bad attempt at a movie. Don't ever watch this movie unless you want to laugh at a poor excuse for anything. I literally felt like I was watching a soap opera with zombies. I will tell you right now, Zombies of Mass Destruction gets the WillyT Seal of DISapproval. There really is no story so I will just rant and talk about what was wrong with this movie. A gay man and his boyfriend go to his mother's house to come out of the closet. He tries to find the words and when he finally does his mother is already a zombie. How was this possible? There was no zombie to begin within the house. And if a zombie did take a bite out of her why would it just leave? Wouldn't it just finish the job? This movie just makes no sense at all. The son ends up pinning her up against the wall. She escapes, of course, and the two decide to make a run for it. One grabs a weed whacker and just goes to town. A young woman comes home and she is Iranian, I think, and her neighbors are racist white trash. She goes on a date with some guy and he ends up being the first one bitten. "It's my blood." He screams as he bleeds out. I lost it. It was too funny. This has to be the worst special effects I have ever seen in a zombie movie. The movie itself starts with a blind man poking around and he stumbles upon a zombie and he inevitably gets eaten. It was the stupidest beginning to a movie. I'm not going to lie. I turned this movie off. After the girl goes into the basement with the white trash family, the wife gets bitten, and on the news we find out that the zombie attack is because of Iraq. That's right, Iraq has the ability to create the walking dead and they attack the United States. The family ties the girl up and the last thing I see if her father running around with a shotgun looking for his daughter. Now, the one good thing I will say about this movie is that it is so bad, it's almost good. I can't really say that without laughing but throughout this movie I laughed a lot. Was I supposed to, I have no idea but I did. The crazy father disapproves of his daughter's boyfriend and when he sees him on the street as a zombie, he blows his head off with a shotgun. That is where I lost control and could not put up with this disaster anymore. Never watch this movie. Not even if you are drunk or higher than a kite. I'm not even sure if this movie is real.
glenjordanspangler
ZMD is interesting if not scary, and amusing if not laugh-out-loud funny. Kevin Hamedani makes some valid points for the Progressive, tolerant viewpoint, while other points are made less persuasive by the cartoonish exaggeration of Conservative stupidity.There are several shots where the side of a zombie's head is blown away, and I'm not sure how Hamedani and crew did those so well, given the obviously low budget. There's also an eye that pops out fairly well. On the other (severed) hand, each time a face, or portions thereof, is ripped off, the results look more like a face beneath layers of strawberry jam than a skull that's missing part of its cozy.Armand, however, has screen presence and acting ability. The consensus on the message board of her IMDb page is that she is "really hot," a "babe," and has charisma, provided that "charisma is a code word for hotness."Why you should see it You feel that any self-respecting zombie connoisseur must see all available zombie movies, in order to name, with some authority, both the "best zombie movie ever" and the "worst zombie movie ever." You're a Progressive who loves to see Conservatives made to look foolish and then devoured. You want to see a hot babe shoot zombies in the head.Why you shouldn't see it You're a Conservative. You're more into vampires. You're sensitive on the subject of cannibalism, given the awkward events of this year's family reunion. --from my review at www.1man365movies.com
stianchrister
This is your typical zombie film, but compared to a lot of other zombie films, I would have to say that this one really stands out from the hordes (pun intended). The basic premise of the story is something like this: A woman running for mayor, a homosexual couple trying to come out of the closet, a father and daughter from Iran (not Iraq) come together with a band of religious folk during a zombie outbreak. There's a lot of room for hilarity, and a lot of room to send a message in this basic premise. Of course, it never really gets there, but it does play with the possibilities. In many ways, the film kind of leaves me with blue balls, because I really felt upon watching it, that this could be awesome. It could've turned out to be extremely funny, and a zombie classic to stand right up there alongside Shaun of the Dead. Sadly, that is not the case, as the film simply doesn't go as far as it could've gone. One of the biggest pluses is that the characters are extremely well-written, and come across as pretty nice people. In fact, one of the biggest pitfalls of B-movies is that the characters don't seem like real people, but rather machines to be put out for torture. These characters actually seem like people, and that's a massive plus.In terms of the cinematography, this film looks pretty good. If you're expecting 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead remake-like blood, guts and gore, you'll be disappointed. There are some special effects, but there aren't a ton of them. I don't think they had the budget to make the special effects a huge thing, but I certainly do think that with the budget they had, this film looks pretty damn sweet. Good cinematography, good editing - overall pretty well done technically.All in all, it's a film with great potential that doesn't quite live up to its potential. The story could've used some tightening up, and if they really tightened up the script and got a stronger theme out of it, this film could've been a low budget classic.
Scarecrow-88
On the small island town of Port Gamble, a virus is unleashed and a zombie outbreak ensues. My wife was nodding off so I realized this zombie movie might've started a bit slow.A blind man finds a rotted corpse washed upon a shore, he's bitten while the screen fades to black. Slowly, but surely we start to see the living dead moving about at a distance while the daily routine continues. We are introduced to a few of the citizens. A successful, but gay, Wall Street broker(Doug Fahl) wants to come out to his mother while his lover(Cooper Hopkins) tags along as support. He has the misfortune of experiencing his mom's turn into a zombie after being infected by a bite from a shop owner. A widower Iranian restaurant owner(Ali Hamedani) and his daughter(Janette Armand) have a difficult relationship because he's "old fashioned" and true to his beliefs while she embraces the American way of life. A dysfunctional family, the Millers,(some would consider them "white trash")are introduced to us cursing and bickering with each other. Mr. Miller(Russell Hodgkinson), who at first offers our Iranian girl sanctuary from the zombie mass that grows in number, gives Frida a hard time, tying her up and asking her questions about our great nation to see if she is a terrorist(!). A preacher(Bill Johns), whose congregation has dwindled, fears his good friend the Mayor(James Mesher), will have his hands full during a new campaign as a fellow running mate(Cornelia Moore) emerges, who herself is considered quite a threat due to her progressive, liberal views. Frida attempts to appeal to the Miller's weak-willed son, Brian(Andrew Hyde), who is afraid of his father, as she desires to be set free. Meanwhile, Frida's father goes on the hunt to find her, actually kind of enjoying the thrill of pulverizing locals, in particular his daughter's slacker boyfriend(Ryan Barret) who was feasted on before her eyes. The film mocks religion as the local pastor proclaims that Armageddon is upon the earth and that JC would be arriving soon. Also established is the fear of Middle Eastern society(Muslims/Arabs) in regards to Frida and her father. Part of the film's comedy focuses in on homophobia and how certain individuals in the town aren't exactly keen on accepting the newly arrived gay couple..we see that the more religious among them are willing to convert our homo heroes in some sort of "conversion machine". Frida has to defend herself against not only Mr. Miller but her father as well(the damn pizza man got him!). Oh and one must get a load of the "conversion room" sequence while Hal, the mayor, himself completes his own conversion..into a flesh-eating zombie. Well, zombie fans do get plenty of gore as expected such as bodies torn asunder, an arm ripped from it's socket and beat over the victim, gushing blood(gallons of it), hammer embedded in the skull, faces taken off by shotgun blasts, weed eater damage, machete slicing, a face skinning, an undead eats her own eyeball, and a little girl is run through by a speeding car. Family members kill each other as often can happen when the infection removes the humanity of those unfortunate enough to have contacted the virus. In regards to originality, this particular genre has yielded so many zom- coms and horror films in recent memory, that besides introducing us to specific characters during the course of a movie, there's little else filmmakers can contribute that hasn't already been established elsewhere. The outbreak for this movie is released by a terrorist and so the town is quarantined with a choice few able to keep themselves from being lunch, hoping to remain alive as help arrives in the military. But, zombie fans are a peculiar few, and while my joy for the genre is waning, I reckon the faithful will find much to be entertained by. The zombies of this film move the same as those in a Romero movie, giving those not infected a fighting chance to defend themselves.
