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"Buckwild" is a very typical B-movie in the zombie genre. Occasionally I enjoy a B-movie but in "Buck Wild" everything is really missing to make it an enjoyable film. It's trying hard to be funny, but nowhere I encountered a comic section. Additionally, it wants to be a horror, but tension and gore scenes fail. That doesn't lead to the desired result also. Eventually I was watching this movie fairly uninterested and kept watching just out of curiosity to see how this meaningless movie would end.

Four friends go on a weekend somewhere in a godforsaken rear corner of America to hunt deer. Craig (Matthew Albrecht) is the naive dorky idiot who is organizing the weekend. As gullible as he is, he did not even know his girlfriend is at home going from one party to another and also has an affair with Lance, who is also part of the group. Lance is an incredible narcissist and an inveterate womanizer. Tom is the petty whiner of the company. A real coward and hygiene freak. He's such a wimp that sleeps in the evening with eye patches on and in the morning uses a face mask and cucumbers on his eyes. Jerry is the tough macho who goes outside in the morning and does his Oriental exercises completely naked. You immediately understand that these four individuals should ensure funny situations because of the chemistry between them. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Its a complete failure on this part and the humor feels utterly forced and unnatural. It looked like a " Porky's " episode .

In the Redneck town they run into Billy Ray, the "Badass" of the village as he calls himself. A real fag who speaks with a posh English accent while a boa is draped around his neck. How do they come up with such an idea ? He's also surrounded by a gang of morons. If you would sum those clodhoppers their IQ, you won't get to the level of a typical toddler. Eventually, they got rid of this gang of idlers by the local sheriff who looks like someone from "The Dukes of Hazzard". Arriving at the weekend house, they meet the owner Clyde , a fairly ugly peasant and irascible, and his daughter Candy, a lascivious well-formed country girl who likes to please the male part of the population a lot. What they don't know is that Clyde was recently bitten by a chupacabra . What this ultimately is and where it comes from, you'll never know . Suddenly it was there . And suddenly it's gone. No sensible explanation about that at all.

You can already guess what the immediate consequences will be. Before you know it, the whole population of the town is affected by this strange, unknown disease, and the four friends are suddenly on a bizarre survival weekend. Jerry suddenly shows that he's master in survival techniques and an expert in the field of zombies. There are several zombie comedies made ​​in the past and this one really brings nothing new. The only funny moment was the alternative use of a frozen fish and the influence a space cake has on a zombie. For the rest there is just a bit of splashing with blood ,which is implemented in an amateurish way, and a horde of zombies who stumble across the screen. At times they even used a sophisticated way to bring that into view: they just filmed it a bit faster.

Towards the end, it really didn't matter to me who would survive this chaos. They started to get on my nerves in such a way that they didn't deserve to survive this tidal wave of zombies. "Buck Wild" is really a low-budget film and I have to hand it to them however, they didn't even tried to hide it. Ultimately, it is only a "not to be taken seriously" zombie movie where the main objective is to mix atrocities with airy black humor. Unfortunately, the two categories were not sufficiently developed: a shortage of bloody situations and a total lack of humor.

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A previous reviewer said if you like Texas you'll like this movie? I dread to think what parts of Texas this man visited. I was born in Texas City, raised in Houston - and the characters in this movie are as foreign to me as Russians or Greek.

I enjoy horror, I even enjoy a little blood & guts if it belongs in the movie. This movie as no suspense, no gore, no horror and very little humour. What it had was a misplaced pimp, four cocky morons that would have looked comfortable in a Porky's franchise movie, four Deliverance rejects, one horny girl who bought the farm fairly early, and a lot of tedium.

Not good.

Mild mannered Craig (Matthew Albrecht) leads a group of his buddies buck hunting at the Buck Wild ranch in south Texas. The group includes his skirt chasing BFF Lance (Isaac Harrison) who is also friends with Craig's girlfriend Carla. Tom is the third member of this group. He is not an outdoors type and his manhood is in constant question by Texans. Jerry (Jarrod Pistilli) is the stranger. He is Craig's visiting cousin from New York. He has with him a duffel bag which he guards. He also has an encyclopedia knowledge of the Chupacabra, the topic of many bad horror films and something we saw before the opening credits. Clearly he has plans of his own as Clyde's (Joe Stevens) ranch has had reported sightings.

The rival ranch is run by self proclaimed bad a** Billy Ray (Mark Ford) who wears a boa and is apparently British (accent and flag in home). The film doesn't give you any odd twists. The characters are what makes the film an enjoyment to watch. The Chupacabra bite turns people into zombies. It is a virus that causes people to commit "violent acts against loved ones, friends, and church goers." Once zombies are sated with meat, they calm down, can watch TV, and even speak.

Movie Guy nomination for "The best zombie psychologist scene" in comedy or horror.