artpf Turning the zombie film on its head, this film is an oddball comedy from the perspective of the brain munching monsters themselves.Beware of people posting raves. They worked on the film. You can tell who they are because they only have ONE review posted. That said, this is actually a really good humorous zombie flick. It's well acted and has a really good mix between horror action and comedy.I'd recommend you give it a try. It's well written too. The switcheroo is the zombies all think they are normal and when they talk to each other, they see each other as normal but those who aren't infected see them for what they really are. And it provides a lot of humor.

Mikel3 Last night I watched 'Aaah! Zombies!!' (aka 'Wasting Away') on the Chiller channel. I really wasn't expecting much, just a typical low budget zombie movie. Instead of the usual, it turned out to be a VERY funny film. The story was presented from the zombie's point of view often with hilarious results. I have not seen a horror film this funny since 'Shaun of the Dead'. In fact this movie is arguably even funnier than that was to me. The premise is that the military develops a serum that is supposed to turn average soldiers into super soldiers. Reminded me of how Captain America was created. Instead the serum turns a soldier being tested into a flesh-eating zombie. Later the faulty serum somehow finds its way into some ice cream eaten by four young friends, two girls and two guys. For some reason they eat it regardless of its strange green glow. It turns them into zombies only they don't realize it till much later in the story. The film is presented in both B/W and Color. The color scenes are from the Zombies point of view, the B/W 'Night of the living Dead' looking scenes are from other peoples view point. Or was it the other way around? Anyway, it was an imaginative idea on the part of the film's makers. The zombies don't see themselves as moving slow at all, instead they see the normal people as moving very fast and think they are the ones acting strangely. To each other the zombies seem normal just has they had always been except they are much stronger and can't be seriously hurt by bullets and the like. It's only others that see them as slow moving decaying corpses that growl. Later they finally see themselves in a mirror and realize the truth. There is also a very funny fifth zombie that is a janitor in the military who had the rank of private first class. He thinks he has been turned into a super soldier and acts accordingly. He's very convincing to the other zombies...for a time. This character and his military like noble attitude adds to the film's fun. Later of course more zombies join them as they too are infected. Finally they are all on a quest to find a sort of promised land where they can all live in peace and not worry about the crazy humans out to destroy them.I especially enjoyed the segment in the bowling alley where the zombies bowl against some drunken bowling teams who at first don't notice anything unusual about them. Another especially funny scene is when a boy zombie goes to speak to his girlfriend's family about dating her. His girlfriend is also one of the undead. Her family is understandably horrified by his arrival at their door.I recommend this film to anyone that enjoys a good horror comedy full of belly laughs.

William Ritchie I was shown this movie by friends of mine who rented it and thought I would get a kick out of it. Lets just say any further recommendations by them will get screened first.I've sat back and watched several attempts at zombie comedies come and go, most of them falling flat on their face, save for the gem "Deadheads". This movie was no exception.The concept of zombies being like everyone else just slower... Sure it's somewhat fresh, but it's not entirely unique, and from what I've heard from other people, it's this movies crowning achievement in 'creativity'. Well, in entertainment, creativity will get you about as far as a boat made of bread.With painfully forced acting and situational development, I kept checking my phone for the time again and again, waiting for the credits to roll.I may have just not "GOT" the point of the movie... But it just wasn't funny, and wasn't good. Granted I've seen far worse, and it did what it could with it's budget, better than most low-rung Hollywood productions, so that's why I'm giving it a generous 4 out of 10.

firetop14 I found Wasting Away on the shelves of Fopp recently after its Region 2 release here in the UK. I didn't buy it the first time I saw it because I find myself in a permanent state of skintness and therefore have difficulty justifying buying DVDs. However, packaging can be a powerful thing and the DVD cover for 'Wasting Away' looked great, had an intriguing synopsis and some positive reviews, so finally after watching the trailer (and, admittedly, after checking to see if the film was available online, which it wasn't) I bought it on DVD for a very reasonable £10, which is still the most I've spent on a DVD for about 2 years.To cut to the chase it was worth every penny, and probably more. This is an independent film from California, with a fairly low budget of $1m, but it's nearly impossibly to tell this from the finished product, which is bright, ballsy and polished. Presumably the filmmakers must have had to cut corners to keep within their meagre budget but it's hard to see where they did so and this look of the film easily competes with higher-budget studio fare.'Wasting Away' fits neatly into the "romzomcom" genre pioneered by 'Shaun of the Dead', but I hasten to add that 'Wasting Away' is not 'Shaun of the Dead', and is not trying to be. Four twenty-somethings spending time in the bowling alley where Tim (Michael Terry) works are unfortunate enough to eat soft-serve ice-cream composed of beer and the toxic waste from a military experiment gone wrong, subsequently die, and wake up as zombies. Except they don't know it. Their confusion is quickly compounded by an encounter with Nick Steele (Colby French), who has also been zombified but insists that they have all been transformed into 'supersoldiers' whilst everyone else in the city has been infected by an inferior brand of the same chemical (in fact, no one else has been affected).Director Matthew Kohnen bravely tackles the zombie perspective and all the problems that come along with it (sample problem: if living human beings see zombies, as slow, lurching and groaning, how do zombies see us?) and clearly has a lot of fun doing so. The plot races along fast enough that the audience is never bored, but well-paced enough that we have time to get to know the characters and meditate on the ridiculous situation they are in. The dialogue is rife with humour and the actors sell it perfectly. Honourable mentions should go to Colby French, whose hard-nosed, sincere performance as "black ops" soldier Nick Steele is played straight rather than camped up and wouldn't be out of place in any Romero zombie film, and Matthew Davis, who delivers every line handled too him perfectly and never fails to bring the humour out of it.Before I get too carried away I should point out that this film isn't perfect. At times it is laugh-out loud funny but at others the humour falls flat, or is just a little bit lame. Also, while the acting is mainly strong, particularly in French and Davis' performances, in other places it is weak or wooden. Some of the plot points feel a little contrived and the humour is occasionally too juvenile to be genuinely funny. But at the end of the day, these flaws are not only eclipsed by the positives, they even add to the film somewhat, making it more likable because of its imperfections.This is a strong directorial debut from Matthew Kohnen, a filmmaker whose other credits seem to mainly consist of clerical or technical jobs, and I will certainly be looking out for more of his work. 'Wasting Away' stands out amidst the boggy mire that is modern horror cinema, a diamond in the mud of tired remakes and boring sequels that is all Hollywood seems capable of producing. It's refreshing, original, gleefully gross and most of all, it's fun. It's fun to watch and it looks like it was fun to make. The only thing that particularly disappoints me is the marketing failure. As far as I'm aware, 'Wasting Away' did not get a theatrical release over here and were it not for Fopp and their avid promotion of smaller independent films I would probably ever have heard of it. So watch it, enjoy it, and pass it on to ensure it gets the recognition it deserves.I leave you with a quote from the film's theme song, which pretty much says it all: "You know your day will suck when the dead start walking the streets, And their only source of nourishment is Human meat."