Slowblivion I'll forego a summary of the plot as it's available on many of the reviews already. This was actually an alright movie! The plot is fairly basic as a fanatical zombie group fights a fanatical human group. The trend to have zombies as more than just mindless, thoughtless, and speechless beings is a nice change (although there will always be a part of me who loves the Romero dead) I think what this story lacks however is a clear or at least defined subtext. It's fraught with social commentary, which I enjoy, but I feel like it's a bit all over the map. You can insert almost any "large group oppresses a minority group" commentary and it works. First that comes to mind is racism though. Second comes the idea of religious fundamentalism which is a bit more deep but just as interchangeable. Acting is actually pretty good. I like that the content is taken seriously by the film makers and I think that comes off well on screen. I think a lot of the actors put a lot into this and while there are times where the acting is a little stale or reactions are sub par, I think in general acting was a positive. One problem I have is during large portions of the beginning of the film, the soundtrack is far too loud compared to the dialogue and it's distracting. Editing isn't bad in the film but there are some sections where the cuts are off beat and a bit rough. Another issue I have with this is the amount of girls in underwear or underwear visible from angles which allow for upskirts. It's not like I have some problem with it overall but I do feel like by putting your main character in a skirt the entire movie then positioning the camera just right to catch those upskirts is a bit much. Maybe they were trying to hit more of a young male demographic but I think it's distracting from a decent film. There seems to be an abandonment halfway through the film of what is "normal" in the world. It's clear there are these 2 extremist groups but there is no sense of what the rest of the world actually feels as zombies are able to hold jobs and mingle at will with humans who tend to have no problem with it. It feels like I'm forced to watch only what these crazies are doing giving me little middle ground and honestly little break between one crazy group and the other. General camera work and lighting is alright. I think many shots are underexposed and framed poorly while others look great minus the low camera quality. As this is a zombie movie it's important to mention gore and SFX. If you want gore, well there's plenty of bites, head chopping, bullet wounds etc. I think it looked pretty good and I was impressed. Of course many of the gun shots (and there are a lot) have very low quality muzzle flashes but given the amount of other SFX I think the flashes can be excused. Overall, i think It's moderately entertaining. It's nothing fantastic but certainly better than much of the drudge that swarms the zombie genre. They took it seriously and so will I. I give it a 6 for accomplishing a decent story, good gore and better than your average zombie movies acting. I take off for the general pacing, an unclear subtext, at times rough camera, editing, and audio work and, the unnecessary use of language and panty shots. (Before you go and say "wow, who made you PC police" I think offensive words can be used if there is a clear meaning and it has some relevance to character or plot such but in this case neither occurred and I just felt it was unnecessary usage)

Tromafreak If you ever get tired of the same old, traditional Zombie flicks like Dawn Of The Dead, and pretty much anything from the criminally overrated George Romero, I'd suggest giving up the mainstream stuff indefinitely, because you're not gonna find it there. If you're looking for an original Zombie flick, and you don't mind a low budget. you've found it. This is Zombies Anonymous! Nowadays, when you die, your soul no longer leaves your body. Harsh, but true. A chick named Angela is right in the middle of a fight with her boyfriend, is hoping this hotheaded young man doesn't go off and shoot her, because she's really not into the whole living dead thing. Because if she doesn't survive, this new lifestyle will most definitely be in her future... So, anyway. now that Angela's undead, she's stuck in a world that's afraid of her. A world that hates her. A world that gives her very few options. For example, getting/holding a job will be almost impossible. And there's this whole thing where Angela feels incredible pain if she goes long enough without eating human flesh. She can pretend to be a regular person all she wants. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but without Human flesh, functioning is almost impossible.While being over-the-top, gruesome, and dark-humored, Zombies Anonymous has quite a deep, semi-touching story, which seems to be about adapting to a new way of life. Well, that and discrimination. Reflecting how people fear, and ultimately hate what they don't understand. If you end up diggin' Zombies Anomymous, I'd highly recommend a film from the same director, called Strange Things Happen At Sundown. One Of The Best Vampire flicks I've come across. This Marc Fratto guy is one of the few bright spots in B-cinema over the last decade, and I look forward to anything else he comes up with. In case you've ever heard about a micro-budget, shot-on-video from the 90's called Shatter Dead, Zombies Anonymous is basically a ripoff of that one. at least the basic idea is. Ultimately, this one blows Shatter Dead away, gore-wise, creativity-wise, & entertainment-wise. you can't compare the two. However, I'd recommend you check out both of them. Zombies Anonymous obviously isn't the traditional Zombie story. And I hardly see that as a bad thing. 8/10

ZombieRanger Very obvious and overall worthless little flick that tries to equate the plight of the undead with social issues like AIDS racism and homosexuality, which ultimately leads to a downright confusing message. The problem is certain metaphors get lost in translation. At one point we're supposed to be horribly disgusted when the villainess causes a commotion upon being served food by a zombie. Now I understand it's supposed to be symbolic of intolerance towards different groups of people, but if your waiter was a walking decaying husk, you'd lose your appetite too. The movie completely loses it's focus towards the end when cults and militias start popping up and going to battle(which means a half dozen people with fake knives and plastic guns have an after effects shootout and toss blood bags at one another.) Cap it off with a really unsatisfying conclusion and you'll know why this thing should be skipped.

TdSmth5 I was very much looking forward to this movie after seeing the outstanding Strange Things Happen at Sundown by the same crew. But this movie doesn't have the humor and thrills that Strange Things had. And it's not nearly half as entertaining.We start by seeing various news feeds about people not dying or the dead returning to life. Then we meet Josh who in a rage shoots his girlfriend Angela. For reasons unknown, indeed anyone who dies comes back to life. Angela is no different. They do all seem to suffer from some skin decay but otherwise are no different from humans, well that and some of them feed on living flesh.The unique aspect of the story is that with this many zombies, they now form a full minority group that suffer discrimination, that has its own support group, that is attacked for being different, etc. Angela, for instance joins Zombies Anonymous (hence the title) a support group that among other things tries to quench their hunger for flesh. All this is quite funny and ingenious.We also get to meet 3 tough-guy wanna bees who terrorize and attack our poor zombies and are eager to join an anti-zombie gang, led by someone called The Commandant, a tough chick. They manage to join and our gang works on hits against zombies.Parallel to this gang and the Commandant is a group of zombies led by a girl named Solstice who presents herself as some type of angelic spiritual guru figure and works on getting zombies to relish their flesh eating nature rather than to try and "recover" or pretend to be normal.This all leads to rather violent confrontations among these groups.The resulting movie isn't quite as interesting as the story may sound. The main problem is that these zombies are presented as a sympathetic weak minority rather than the brutal killers we expect and want them to be. They are pretty low on the social and animal scale and humans kick them around easily. So we have a zombie movie with unscary zombies. Not good. Second, this movie is rather tame- lacking violence, gore, and nudity. Some of the violence and gore has been edited out by the moronic distributors who also changed the title. But for once, the new title is actually better than the original "Last Rites of the Dead" which sounds much more dark, lofty, and horrific than the resulting movie. Thankfully, the producers posted the missing scenes on YouTube. So its not clear what the original movie would have been like in its fullness.Compared to the masterpiece that Strange Things at Sundown is (that's right), this movie just doesn't give us much to like. The main character of Angela is rather dull nor is she pretty enough to make up for the dullness. There aren't really any character to like or root for. The Commandant, which is the only interesting character, is presented as too mean to like. The movie obviously doesn't want us to like someone who is out there to kill some harmless minority. In a way this movie, thematically at least, tries to be somewhat of a standard Hollywood movie: politically correct; all the men are presented as dumb; there's not 1 but 3 main female characters: the heroine victim and the two evil characters. As a result it is far less edgy and original than expected. Somewhat worth a rental, but definitely don't miss Strange Things Happen at Sundown.