A.D. Villarreal (thefog1331)

The flip side of Zombieland. That film was a comedy with some horror elements where as this one is flat out horror with some humor scattered throughout to mostly great effect.
It pays homage to alot of different classics so its cliche moments I overlooked due to the fact I took it to be intentional (ie The pre-credit kill, the local looney with a wild legend and a warning to our characters, isolated cabin, etc)

Now for the obligatory complaints: the editing is a little sloppy causing a bit of confusion from time to time, the characters are pretty flimsy (although again that may have been keeping with old-school horror tradition) and the ending could be seen coming from a mile away. On a lesser note having a rather plain jane Norwegian chick with dreadlocks was just really distracting and didn't even fit with her personality.

Bottom line: Wild, gory and just plain fun little Nazi zombie movie that I can't wait for an American release so I can buy it.

Fine for the mainstream audience but die hard horror buffs and more specifically zombie aficionados will probably be disappointed as it brings nothing new to the table. It's funny in parts and Harrelson is a joy to watch but its just not very gory or scary (excluding one well placed jump).

I love everything about this movie: the creepy foghorn blowing, the equally creepy score, the scene when the salt water comes in contact with the tape player and starts playing a low (creepy) voice of Blake, the diary which if you feeze it as Malone is flipping through the pages gives a rather raunchy description of some woman, JC's brief role, the really bad elevator music that Stevie Wayne's radio station plays, Blake and his (yes, creepy) crew, the in-jokes of peoples names, Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Darwin Joston, George "There ain't no fog bank out there" Flowers and Tom Freakin' Atkins. Amen.

Others may have come before it, (i.e. Twitch of the Death Nerve; Black Christmas) but no one ever did it as good as John Carpenter with this still effective slasher that begat more ripoffs than any other film.