Joe brought a 2008 New Zealand zombie film no one had heard of called Last of the Living and it was a mixed bag. The story is pretty much standard virus turns people into zombies storyline with a touch of comedy. I laughed once in a while but it's no Zombieland. It's a pretty low budget affair, but they work fairly well with what they have. "We shot about 90% of it for $5,000 USD. Then cut a trailer together put it up on Youtube and got a further $40k USD as a pre-sales deal."- director Logan McMillian. Looks pretty darn good for that little cash. The acting isn't awful, though some of the characters are fairly annoying. It would suck to be stuck in the end times with some of these knobs. Three guys are hold up in a mansion after some of the population started shambling about attacking the rest. Lucky for them the power is still on so they play a lot of video games, watch dvd's and drink cold beer. They make occasion runs to the supermarket and the video store. When the mansion runs out of clean dishes or sheets they move to a new one. That's what I would do in a post-apoc universe. See what other people had in their houses. That and breaking stuff. I'd be breaking shit all the time. The zombies are pretty slow for the most part, you can beat them off with a stick. None of the guys seems to have a gun. It's later explained that the big zombie shoot out after the virus broke used up all the bullets in a 24 hour orgy of killing. Why aren't we seeing that movie, asked Sperhauk. I wish I had an answer. On one trip to gather snacks, for the tummy and the eye, the guys run into a gal who has some zombie blood and a mission. She's heard that there are some science guys working on a cure. She wants to get to the island where they are working. She enlists the boys in the venture and all they can see is them getting laid. Doesn't turn out that way, sad for them, huh. The should have stayed home, safer and sounder but no, the lure was too great. The trip is perilous and one by one they are all picked off. For a horror comedy it sure ends on a dark note. Joe said he didn't need to see that one again. Oh, well, time to move on.
Sperhauk picked himself up the BluRay disc of Night of the Creeps. It's just come out on dvd for the first time and the BluRay disc was actually cheaper than the regular disc. It's a 1986 film directed by Fred Dekker, who also wrote the script. Dekker would go on to direct Monster Squad the following year. Due to 2 poor box office showings in a row he'd direct no more movies. He wrote some Tales From The Crypt's and directed one. He produced some episodes of Enterprise and directed three. He has no credits on the IMDb since 2002. I had just seen Monster Squad recently when Target had it for 5 bucks. It has some annoying characters but is mostly enjoyable. NOTC is more entertaining, though some of the characters are as annoying. It's always a constant trade off. Like our previous movie there's a bit of humor in Night Of The Creeps. Humor that has a touch of blackness. Back in 1956 some aliens happen to be going by Earth. One of their experiments gets out of the ship and plummets to earth. About the same time a patient escapes from the local mental institution and goes on a axe whielding killing spree. The two problems cross paths in the woods. A couple parking decides to investigate the flaming meteor that swooshed by and a cop is looking for the escaped mad man. There's a gruesome meeting and we flash to the 80's. Our hero is a college guy wanting to get close to some cute girl. The cop, Tom Atkins in a pretty entertaining role, is still having nightmares about that horrible evening in the 50's. College guy wants to join a frat house to impress the girl and the jerks in the rich guys gang put him up to a prank. He has to get a dead guy from the med school and stick him on the steps of another faternity. He gets into the med school and while searching for the morgue with his pal they discover a weird experiment. There's a guy in cryo, all frozen up. One corpse coming up. Things get worse from there. Turns out the human popsicle has some of the alien experiment in his head. The black slugs get out and infest the towns folk, turning them into ashen faced zombies. If you get a slithering nasty down your pie hole the slug will nest in your brain and lay some eggs. You stumble about until the eggs hatch and your head splits open. Don't worry. You're long since dead so it won't hurt. The makeup effects were much better than our other feature and the acting up more than a notch. The script made me laugh at times. It's a movie I'd probably add to my collection once I see it cheaper in the future.
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