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this film wants to be one part comedy and one part horror. instead it comes off more as a parody of zombie films. truthfully it comes off more conflicted than anything. the shifts between teen drama, gore, jokes, and action are stiff and disjointed.
the first thing you notice about the film is that most of its "teen" characters are played by people that are clearly not young.
its tone is somewhat lazy jokingly mundane. that style is carried through but doesn't seem so much as a style as it does seem like a half-hearted attempt. or worse a failed attempt.
its prom time. teen dramas play out. the 'kids' are blatant and mundane stereotypes. the jokes are old too. the dead come back to life via toxic waste being dumped by the local nuclear plant. now the sci-fi club will have to work with band members, cheerleaders and other cliche's to save the prom. or not...since by the time they make it there they simply have to kill them all. the rest of the town's people only show up if they are part of a surprise...otherwise the population seems surprisingly almost exclusively prom aged kids.
there are some surprises. most of which are pasted by in a ho-hum attitude.
ultimately its just not heart felt. even the moments that are intended to be, fall seriously short. you don't really feel for these people and i don't think you're intended to. but its a shame. there was a lot of potential here, its simply handled wrong.
see maybe...or not.
(5/10)
5/10
