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Reviews
Reel Zombies (2008)
A new twist on the Zombie genre...
I saw this film as part of the 'A Night of Horror Film International Festival 2009' in Sydney.
Reel Zombies is a 'mockumentary' set in the near future when zombies have taken over the earth, and a follows a group of filmmakers who capitalize on the situation by making a zombie movie.
When you think about that, you can begin to see the comedy potential - and it's there in spades! Mike Masters - playing himself as the director - sees himself as 'ahead of the game' because Hollywood production has dropped to zero since the 'real' zombie incursion. "Yeah, but after a zombie outbreak, whose gonna wanna go see a zombie movie?" asks one of his cohorts. Similar pieces of gold are scattered throughout.
Real zombies are wrangled and used as cheap, expendable extras saving on make-up and gunshot effects, and preproduction meetings are interrupted by excursions to the outside parking lot to kill a few 'strays' that have wandered in.
I won't spoil it any further! Suffice to say, a must-see for fans of the zombie genre for its high originality.
A couple of downers: the pace struggles a little here and there, nothing too serious, and Mike Masters' overuse of the 'f-word' seriously detracts from the comedy at times and actually would have been much funnier without it. I'm not a prude, it's just that saying 'f**k' a lot simply isn't comedy - give me something smarter, please! Besides that, I enjoyed this film very much.
Gemini: The Twin Stars (1988)
A film about unfulfilled homosexual fantasies.... *MAJOR SPOILER*
I saw this film in Zurich circa 1989. A guy I worked with was friends with the actors - they all went to the same school in Zurich.
Basically, this is a film about unfulfilled homosexual fantasies. I'll leave it up to you to decide whose fantasies we're talking about.
As I recall, the movie went something like this:- Two boys, somewhere in the good ol' US of A get involved in a robbery. One gets shot, and as he's dying, he sees a poster of tourism billboard advertising Switzerland - all green hills, mountains and pretty little chalets. Just before he carks it, he asks his friend to get him there. He dies, and his friend decides to go anyway.
Upon arrival, he basically (amazingly?) ends up at the place as seen in the billboard. He befriends a boy that lives there, and the movie descends rapidly from there. I'm not homophobic (my boyfriend is), but the acting is kinda amateur and the plot nonsensical.
In the final scene, they're filmed through a blue filter running around topless among some Greek ruins. We're supposed to believe that these boys are the twin stars of Gemini that find each other after being separated. Hmmm.... Frankly, I didn't buy it.
There it is. I'm sorry, but this is a complete waste of celluloid.