Directed Directed by Damon LeMay. Starring Adam Hose, Phil Burke and Brynn Lucas. Zombie. USA, 87 minutes

Damon LeMay’s directorial debut Zombie Town is an easy to mock film. Made on a small budget with extras who appear to have been told to run around in circles to make it seem like there are more people in peril. For some strange reason the film kept my attention all the way to the end, this might have been because the director his no delusions of grandeur. This is a movie where the zombies threaten to take over a small cut off town in New England.

The movie opens with a chase through the woods ending with a hunter being caught and bitten just off camera. He returns to his cabin to feast on his friends who luckily all stand still long enough to be bitten by their clearly ill friend.

We are now taken back to the town where we are introduced to our main protagonists Adam Hose plays Jake an incompetent mechanic who works with his brother Denton(Phil Burke). They get a call about a car they need to go look at in the woods so off they go to unintentionally spread the zombie outbreak nearer to town. Denton gets bitten and he sends Jake back to town to get help, on the way back he picks up his ex girlfriend Alex(Brynn Lucas) mainly because this seems the most logical way to bring her into the story.

Before too much longer the town is cut off by a large truck crashing and taking out the towns phone lines. The truck also explodes in some spectacularly poor special effects making the only road into town impassable. Now Jake and Alex must ignore their previous problems and unite to fight the undead.

This isn’t the worst zombie film I have ever seen, (there wasn’t even a hint of a dwarf going for an outdoor toilet break) but it is painfully clichéd. One thing I did enjoy were the little leech like parasites which burrowed out from one of the zombies after he had been locked up and hadn’t got the chance to eat any sweet human flesh.

Although the origin of the zombie infestation is never revealed we do see it spread throughout the town without prejudice. There are zombie teens, zombie dogs and zombie pensioners. A community game of bingo is interrupted when an elderly zombie begins eating her rivals. Where do the elderly go when they are dead? Do they go to the shops to complain, the park to feed (on) the ducks, the doctors? No interestingly they go to find their loved ones and feast on them.

I wouldn’t encourage anyone to rush out and buy this as soon as it comes out but it is worth a look if it comes on television and there’s nothing else on.

Colin Bennett.

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