The cover to the DVD of All American Zombie Drugs is filled with lies. I expect that from marketing but this is pretty much the worst I've seen in a while. Some of the lies are in the quotes. Here's one credited to Twisted Central.
"A solid, well, built comedy...it will definitely have you rolling."
That's not true. We didn't really laugh. I think I chuckled once. We didn't roll either. Which is a good thing, at my age I just can't get up off the floor too well anymore.
The other quote is from a blog called HorrorNews:
"An hilarious comedy that mixes outlandish behavior with classic horror scenes."
They really should have an A at the start of the sentence. It didn't read right so I asked Word and it told me they suck. They're also wrong about it being a hilarious comedy as I've already mentioned. While there is some outlandish behavior there are no classic horror scenes. Then on top of that, all the zombies are in a drug induced dream. All the weird stuff happens in that dream state. The film's writer director Alex Ballar appears in the dream state as the dead brother to one of the characters.
The greatest lie is the quote at the top of the cover, it's from Chad Brunswick, BAMF.
"It's SPUN meets PINEAPPLE EXPRESS!"
It's nothing like that, not at all, not in any possible way. In every possible way Spun is a better movie than this. Any random 5 minutes of Pineapple Express has more jokes than this whole movie. I can't find any info on Chad but I did notice that Brunswick got bought out by BAMF. Brunswick makes bowling lanes and BAMF makes sports equipment. Maybe there is a Chad Brunswick and he's a Bay Area Movie Fan. I doubt it. I'm calling Shenanigans.
The box makes you think it might be a drug comedy with zombies but instead they give you a drug movie with poorly written characters, some lame introspection, and little humor. The bottom of the box promises a zombie attack, they don't deliver much of that and it's disappointing.
The description of the movie on the back is similar to this synopsis on the IMDB, though I can't find a scan of the cover to confirm it.
Vinny and Sebastion, two burnouts, going nowhere in small town suburbia and still riding the high of their high-school days, start a business doing the only thing they have ever excelled at...drugs. With the help of a jealous girlfriend and a rich Goth chick, Vinny and Sebastion take on the mob, angry, geeky, frat-boys, and zombies in the search of the perfect high.
I couldn't recommend it to anyone, go watch Spun or Pineapple Express.
Our second film was Ghostbusters II. I hadn't seen it for a while and it still makes me laugh. It's produced and directed by Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis from a Dan Aykroyd script. Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson join Harold and Dan as the Ghostbusters and Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis and Annie Potts return as the same characters they played in the first movie.
It's 5 years after that movie and the Ghostbusters have been sued out of existence. Too bad, the city is now home to a river of pink slime that turns out to be feeding on the anger of the citizens. When Sigourney has a weird incident she turns to Harold for some help. He gets Dan in on the problem but Sigourney doesn't want much to do with Bill. They broke up and she had a brief marriage to a violin player that ended with her and the baby living in the city. She's not in the orchestra anymore, she's restoring painting at the Museum where the pink river of slime is heading. Peter MacNicol is the curator of an exhibit featuring a giant painting of 16th century sorcerer Vigo the Carpathian. Vigo's evilness inhabits the painting and he's looking for a vessel to make his way back to the real world. Sigourney's baby is just the thing. Peter gets possessed and the story goes on from there. It's not quite as good as the first movie but it still holds up to repeated watching. It made me laugh a fair bit and while I miss the giant StayPuft marshmallow man I did like the animated Statue of Liberty strolling through the city.
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