A self-taught critic and genuine movie geek
I know, I know, it’s another zombie movie already, but hey, it’s Halloween. And it’s considerably different from Survivors, anyway. Somehow blending horror and comedy often seems to result in the sort of comedy I can’t discuss in detail in a family-friendly review, and this movie is no exception, but in-between the cringe-worthy jokes it was a pretty fun movie.
It’s hard to believe we’ve had almost a half-century of the zombie-style post-apocalyptic genre — and that’s only going back to 1968 and Night of the Living Dead, never mind the very early zombie flicks of the 1930’s. But though there are relatively high-budget zombie films like the 28 duology which are already becoming classics, the low-budget zombie movies don’t have to suffer when compared to their wealthier cousins, and Survivors proves it.
Normally I don’t much like following trends for some reason — this is why I can’t ever read the Harry Potter books — so it does seem a little weird to me to join in on the many raves already out there about this movie, but what the heck? It is a good movie, and a good book, so why not do my small bit to help encourage both? And yes, I slipped up somehow and actually read the book first, quite some time ago.