Apocalypse Z (2013)

A team of soldiers who are assembled to help end a zombie outbreak in a Romanian town.

Directors:

Luca Boni, Marco Ristori

Writers:

Luca Boni, Marco Ristori

Stars:

Christian Boeving, Mike Mitchell, Tara Cardinal

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Christian Boeving	...	Jack Stone
Mike Mitchell	...	John 'Mad Dog' McKellen
Tara Cardinal	...	Eden Shizuka
Ivy Corbin	...	Sam Neumann (as Ivy Marshall Corbin)
Carl Wharton	...	General Carter
Jon Campling	...	Doug Mulligan
Daniel Vivian	...	Dragan Ilic
Gerry Shanahan	...	Doctor Neumann
Nathalia Henao	...	Claire Howard
David White	...	Secretary of Defense
Uwe Boll	...	President of the US
Lee Baughn	...	Soldier #1
Garth Lughton	...	Soldier #2
Andrea Rovini	...	Soldier #3
Pietro Batini	...	Soldier #4

Storyline

A bacteriological weapon developed by the US Government to create a super soldier - spreads an epidemic in a quiet little town in the middle of Eastern Europe. All citizens have been turned into infected zombies. The plan is to bring an atomic bomb into the city's nuclear plant to pretend a terrible accident occurred. No one has to know the truth. A team of mercenaries is hired to complete the mission. The battle is on. Hordes of monsters against the team. WHO WILL SURVIVE?

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Plot Keywords:

nuclear plant | zombie | military | gore | blood splatter | 

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Taglines:

There is no hope

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Italy USA Germany Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 October 2013 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Apocalypse Z

Filming Locations:

Bagnone, Tuscany, Italy

Box Office

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Event Film Distribution, Extreme Video Snc, 1988 Games

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Originally titled Zombie Massacre, the movie was repackaged as 'Apocalypse Z' to capitalize on the success of World War Z (2013).

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Quotes

Dragan Ilic: Why don't you go and fuck yourself with a viking helmet?

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Connections

Referenced in The Cinema Snob: Zombie (2015)

User Reviews

Apocalypse ZZzzzzzz...

3 mercenaries and an ex-soldier serving time in prison are recruited (with the promise of money and freedom) to plant a nuke in some place that no one's ever heard of where there has been a zombie outbreak due to government sanctioned experiments gone wrong (probably not news to you, reader). This is the American government and an American operation even though most of the people in this movie, including army and government personnel, are clearly not American. The best example is the fact that the American president was played by a guy with a kind of German accent which made me chuckle for a lot of reasons.

The zombies are fierce and ugly enough, I guess. I've got no complaints there. The fact that the producers could have simply made this movie about some other government operation other than American to accommodate the accents and give it some credibility doesn't even bother me that much. Nor even the cliché and uninventive script and scenario of a bunch of different personalities recruited to do a job. What I most cared about was the action. Good action can save a movie. I've seen it happen. Unfortunately that did not happen here.

The 4 people: ex-soldier (and bodybuilder), expert fighting woman (with 2 swords, no less), explosives expert (gregarious Scotsman) and sniper (French guy with a nose that looks like it's been hit too many times) are not very interesting. None of them were particularly good at what they are supposed to be expert at. The ex-soldier and bodybuilder didn't do too much with the zombies physically. He did manage to shoot a few so I'll give him credit for that....I guess. The expert fighting woman was more interesting when she said nothing. Later she became talkative and ruined the whole mystique by sounding stupid. Moreover, she had no fighting expertise that I could see. I'm fairly certain I (and you reader) could disarm her with a nail file. The explosive genius, who was built up like some kind of Mcguyver, only had plastic explosives with a timer on it which, when it went off, looked little more impressive than what you see when you take a picture with a flash bulb.

All the "explosions" in this movie were like that in fact. Finally, the sniper who supposedly was so good he could shoot a fly on earth from somewhere in space (okay, I'm exaggerating a little) was using a rifle that he had to crank with a big handle after every shot. A process that took about 10 seconds or more. Shoot...crank...aim...shoot, and so on. I'm surprised he didn't upend the thing and start pouring gunpowder down the barrel and then ramming it with a ramrod. Needless to say, reader, about 2 dozen zombies went through his defense every time he cranked. Notwithstanding, I have seen worse (Based on what I've read here some of you may find that hard to believe). I feel 3 stars is just about right. Love, Boloxxxi.