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MTI Home Video 

    Another day, another zombie flick, would this mean another sigh of exasperation from me? Let’s face it, over the past few years there has been a virtual barrage of movies featuring the undead, a few have been excellent, some have been good, but more often than not there have been some real stinkers. So, when I popped Zombie Town into the old DVD player I was hoping that it wouldn’t be another disappointment. An hour and a half or so later I must admit that I was relieved, if not totally blown away; Zombie Town was actually quite good fun. 

    The movie starts with a group of hunters joking about in their cabin. Their fun and games is short lived though as one of their party returns, looking a little worse for wear, who then proceeds to attack the group by taking a few bites out of them. 

    After this bloody intro the action moves over to La Fonds Garage where Jake and his brother are trying to get the business back into shape after the death of their father. They receive a phone-call advising them of an abandoned truck up in the mountains and asking them if they can come and remove it. Being in the financial situation that they are they can’t turn down the business and soon head off into the hills. Of course this truck belongs to the hunting party from the opening scene, so it isn’t going to be as simple as just towing the truck. 

    They arrive at the truck, and being the good guys that they are, decide to try and find the owners to tell them it is being towed. However, once they arrive at the cabin they find a scene of bloody carnage, and soon get attacked by one of the party. After fighting him off and dispatching of the assailant it becomes apparent that Jake’s brother has been bitten and has broken his leg, so Jake reluctantly goes back into town for help. 

    Of course, when they return there are no signs of Jake’s brother, maybe he has made his way back home? Yeah right, nothing is ever that straight forward, because before too long the town of Otis is over-run by flesh eating ghouls, leaving Jake, his ex-girlfriend and their quite spectacularly hairy friend to try and rid the town of its new problem. 

    Zombie Town was a surprisingly good blend of action, blood and guts (of which there is plenty) and some quite funny humor that moved along at a decent pace throughout. The zombies in this movie are caused by slug-like parasites that get under the skin and breed; the reason for this is left unexplained, which was fine by me. Their taste for flesh though was just as ravenous as any other zombie flick though, and there is quite a remarkable amount of claret on screen throughout this movie. 

    On the whole it was a quite well made movie, the script was funny and delivered well by an above average cast, although saying that some of it was a little lazy; I was unaware that you can tell a car is full of gas just by looking through the window? I was under the impression that the gauge didn’t rise until the engine was started? Maybe I’m wrong, and I am just nit-picking but it seemed a little lazy to me. Aside from that and a few other little niggles, such as the police station being the most run-down I have ever seen, it was still a well made little Indie flick. 

    Also, be aware that everyone in this movie is a crack shot with a gun; head shots are no problem! 

    It is most enjoyable though, and in a day and age where zombie flicks clutter the shelves, it might be easy to skip past this one as it blends in with all the others. Don’t skip it though as it is worth checking out. It won’t blow you away, but you’ll have a few laughs and there is plenty of gore served up for the more bloodthirsty of you out there. 

** 1/2

-Jude Felton