I can see the pitch for this. Say lets have a town where zombies, vampires and humans live together. Everything is cool, with the usual suburban angst, kid who's not a jock, unrequited love, pothead girl, AND GET THIS, the whole town exists to make horrible riblet sandwiches! And then? And then ALIENS COME! Yeah, sounds like a winner, right? Wrong. It's silly, contrived and dull. The biggest names have only a little screen time (Blink and you'll miss Patton Oswalt). I blame Shaun of the Dead for movies like this. It's really difficult to make a convincing horror/comedy. What makes Shaun of the Dead so great is that it's a horror movie, following all the conventions of such films, and it's funny at the same time. Freaks of Nature is simply silly and never gets above that bar. There is one reveal at the end (which anyone watching will guess 1/3rd of the way through the movie) that is the one somewhat surprising thing. Other than that, this is just a dull, silly movie. I expect it'll be showing up endlessly on the SyFy channel.
Review of Freaks of Nature
