THE DEAD TIMES

RATING:

ZOMBIE RATING:

DESCRIPTION:

A crazed scientist, dismissed from his lecturing job due to radical ideas, seeks revenge on the human race by unleashing a being of true terror into the unsuspecting modern world - the devastating, Zombiesaurus Rex!

MY VERDICT:

So… yeah, there's really not much I can say about this movie that you cannot already guess from the title; it's bad, really bad but in a good way. You see, like Sharknado, Zombiesaurus (or Z-Rex: The Jurassic Dead as it is known in the states) never takes itself seriously, never tries to have a plot that makes sense or is not full of unexplained holes. For example, the main 'bad guy' has found a way to bring back dinosaurs - who knows how or why it appears to have dramatically shrunk the only dinosaur he resurrects; the T-Rex. Who knows why he then injects that T-Rex with substance drawn from a iconic vial of glow-in-the-dark Zombie virus, bizarrely forgetting that a) a T-Rex is probably more dangerous without being a Zombie and b) a normal human turned into a Zombie would be just as effective at spreading the plague throughout the human race. That's actually one of my favourite parts of the movie; the 'crazed scientist' does actually appear to be crazy, stupidly overcomplicating simple plans to make them more 'evil'. I also like the bad-ass troop of mercenaries that are there to stop everything or something (again, the movie is hazy on the details). Aside from that; the acting is painfully bad, the CG work is lacking and there are some really annoying horny teenager characters. Still, if you're looking for silly, nonsense entertainment involving a Zombie dinosaur - look no further than this cooky, awful-yet-brilliant, low-budget film.