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Zombie Town is a film which announces itself loud and clear with the title. I mean, you look at a name like Zombie Town, you aren't expecting Proust are you. The film has a town, which falls prey to zombies and there's pretty much nil to surprise the seasoned horror fan, but low budget zombie junkies should probably get a few simplistic kicks out of it. We start out in the woods with a few idiot hunters in a cabin falling foul of some living dead, allowing for some bloodshed and OK bite effects, a pleasing enough hook. Then we get on to Jake and Denton, two brothers who run a garage and come across the scene after they are called in to remove an abandoned truck. Denton gets bitten and soon enough the town is in some real trouble. Written and directed by Damon Lemay, this is a perfectly acceptable but never special affair, it has a good pace, reasonable acting and a fair smattering of grue, good bites, blood splatter, OK headshots and one sweet parasite related gore scene. See, the film is working a bit of a Night of the Creeps style slug parasite angle and it allows for some cool shenanigans, though any comparisons drawn with that gem are inevitably unfavorable. There's also a crib from Return of the Living Dead 2, though that wasn't so good a film. Acting wise things are OK, a bit crummy, not helped by the generic script with only a few funny lines. Adam Hose is likable enough as Jake, Phil Burke has better presence as the unfortunately ill fated Denton, whilst Dennis Lemoine is fairly amusing as a heroic local idiot and love interest is provided by very comely redhead Brynn Lucas. Altogether this is no classic, clear low budget shown by the various cut aways during violence and the lack of sense of real scale and threat to the zombie attacks as well as brief poor CGI. The film at least chugs along with a certain charm and easy flow, I had some mindless fun from it and I'd say no brainer zombie hounds might have an OK time as well. So, if it sounds like your kind of thing, you could do worse than give it a go.
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