Zombie Night
Zombie Night
| 08 November 2005 (USA)
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Pakistan and India exchange nukes. Other countries join the fray, and the nuclear fallout causes a plague of the living dead. David attempts to lead a band of survivors from safe house to safe house, hoping to outlast the zombies, while also trying to protect the group from the machinations of a survivor and former member of his party bent on revenge.

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GL84

Out on a family road trip, a crisis in the world involving an outbreak of dead people returning to life as the result of radiation from the nuclear devastation plaguing the rest of the world traps a small group inside a bunker and forces a desperate attempt to get away before falling victim to the zombies.This here wasn't that bad of a film. One of the better aspects to this one is that it has quite a solid pace here since there's a huge amount of action in here. That comes mainly from the different waves of attacks in here leading to lots of confrontations that are fun, from the first missions just to get into the shelter and the ensuing food-run that ends in disaster due to the large swarms that appear out of the darkness. The attacks much later on, with the zombies swarming over the compound and taking on a rather calculated plan of attack as they manage to force them into defensive positions while they are making an offensive march against them, are really great as well as the main sequence out in the attempt to leave their compound to get to the second shelter where the creatures pick off the most survivors and the final chase to get out of the bunker that leads into a series of woodland-based attacks are all energetic and creepy, due to the night-time setting and trying to see everything through flashlight power. Even the battle in the second shelter is quite fun with the horde coming in and taking out the different members of the group that breaks through the barricade and manages to get to the scattered group which has plenty of fun action. The opening, with the worldwide reports of damage and destruction, give this a great feel, and with the huge, global feel to it, it has a much bigger and creepier feel. The other big plus here is that there's such a huge amount of blood and gore in here that features both the violence against the zombies and humans which is really nice. These here are the film's good points as it did have a few problems with it. The fact that it's so low-budget does hurt it since there's really no way to get around certain factors like it's cheap and quite terrible-looking gore and shots that tend to be subject to the condition that they were shot in, fading in and out at opportune moments and much more in here that gives away the fact that it's really cheaply done. All of these here pop up throughout the film on a continual basis, especially the gore since it's pretty bloody, and these here can make for some troublesome viewing by those who aren't that into its style of film. Its other main flaw is the unneeded side character that constantly throws the group into danger for no reason and holds up the pacing from the zombie attacks which is the main point. Also a little damaging is the constant clichés that normally pop up in a zombie film, mainly the one where no one can get along and the stupidest decision actually turns out to be the one that saved everyone, but those are so universally-used it's not that damaging as the other flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity and a mild sex scene.

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Leofwine_draca

ZOMBIE NIGHT is a Canadian reworking of the zombie legend, shot on video without much in the way of insight or originality. In fact this film, which tells of a group of survivors banding together after they are assailed by a zombie outbreak, is very much a Romero copy and the zombies in it are even blue-skinned.Unfortunately, this film suffers from all of the usual problems associated with the indie movie genre, namely wooden acting and terrible production values. There's a lot of gut-munching gore on offer here for those who enjoy that sort of thing, but the storytelling is very basic and simply consists of place-to-place movement, travelogue-style. However, I did find this a little more engaging than most zero-budget films, even though it's clearly hampered by the all-too-obvious budgetary constraints.

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loomis78-815-989034

Mark (Cole) and Shelley (Segovic) are driving home from a weekend camping trip and turn on the car radio to hear that a war has started which is turning the dead into zombies. They take shelter with their young daughter Amber (Andrea Ramolo) in a warehouse area until they run into Dave (Ticknovich) whose wife is killed. They quickly pick up others and form a group struggling to survive. A hot head member of the group named Derek (Moniz) keeps causing trouble which eventually leads to members of the groups being killed by the zombies. This low budget outing from Producer, Writer and Director David J. Francis gets some good marks from the obvious fun it looks like they had making this. Francis is a real Zombie movie fan and that enthusiasm shows despite rough dialog and poor acting. Lead actor Danny Ticknovich could be a stunt double for Tom Cruise due to his looks but didn't get Cruise's acting chops. The gore, and there is a lot of it, ranges from great to very poor, sometimes from scene to scene. The movie just stops rather than having an actual ending which is puzzling. Overall, "Zombie Night" is poor but that Independent spirit and love of Zombie films comes through and it almost makes this watchable. At least the film makers gave it their best shot.

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altjingoh

I cannot justify even giving this movie a single star.It is bad.No, even worse than bad. There is no adjective in the English language that appropriately describes how awful this movie is.I will admit that there are a couple of good zombie kills, but the acting, sound quality, video quality, plot, continuity, believibility, and setting are all really bad.Somehow, they even managed to do a bad job with the nudity scenes.If you want to get drunk and make fun of this movie with your buddies, then this movie will serve you a purpose, but if you want to enjoy watching a scary movie, look elsewhere.

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