‘Variety’ Has Some Love for ‘ZMD’
July 7th, 2009 by michael c. mooreOur friend Linda Jensen passed along this review from “Variety” magazine of the Port Gamble-filmed “ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction,” from its screening at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 25:
By ANDREW BARKER
“ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction” is part of a rare breed: a horror-comedy that’s actually consistently funny and occasionally almost scary. Unbelievably violent even by zombie-movie standards, the film is nonetheless weirdly good-natured and often quite clever, and reps a promising start for debut director-scripter Kevin Hamedani. Though it’s a bit too roughly hewn to have much theatrical life, the film should get plenty of play in its natural habitat — on DVD and at midnight screenings near college campuses. …
… The early going is a little slow, but once the action starts, pic hits its stride and offers a steady stream of sharp jokes and gruesome setpieces (a truly shocking sight gag early on indicates the filmmakers are game for just about anything). Director Hamedani proves impressively capable of conveying total apocalypse on a budget, as well as maintaining a light, cartoonish tone through increasingly horrific mayhem.
Bloody, old-school special effects are very ably and cleverly pulled off, and the score nods to the Moog-heavy music of the pic’s late-’70s inspirations.
More later … — MM
Tags: Kevin Hamedani, Linda Jensen, Port Gamble, ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
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