Episode 292: The Zombies are Coming to Town and Schoolgirl Apocalypse

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A twofer from 2011 this time around with The Zombies are Coming to Town and Schoolgirl Apocalypse.

Zombies are Coming to Town, which needed to be Zombie Hordes are Coming to Town so it can be sung to the tune of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, is a pretty dreadful movie in a movie, where they are making a low budget zombie movie with some of the worst acting you have even seen and even worse cinematography. I am aggrieved to call it cinematography.

During the filming of a low budget zombie movie in Maine (how original), a tank of biohazardous chemicals is punctured by two teens (how original), and as real zombies appear and attack the production (how original) the director decides to incorporate the real zombies into his movie (how original). 64 minutes. 8 of which is the credits. And at one point we get the entire movie replayed beginning to end at 3x fast forward >>>. Hated almost every second of this one. The only slightly redeemable thing was that the zombies in the movie didn't have as good a makeup as the actual zombies.

2/10 and definitely not the 7/10 it gets on IMDB.

And then we watched Schoolgirl Apocalypse. And this was ok. Japanese but directed by an American. A high pitched signal turns the men into women murderers in a small Japanese town, as schoolgirl Sakura tries to get a blind scientist, and a mute western boy in wheelchair to the sea.

Not a lot of blood, not any gore really but there is a lot of tension, very atmospheric at times. A decent movie making debut from the director. It felt a little like a very tame version of The Sadness. And the Squidward alien jellyfish ending and constant use of animated sequences when Sakura was unconscious didn't do it for me.

4.5/10 for its oddness. Odd like Junk was odd and odd like wild zero was odd. Japanese odd.