THE DEAD TIMES

RATING:

ZOMBIE RATING:

DESCRIPTION:

After being forced into a family vacation to a small holiday cabin in the woods, a group of teenage kids discover that their new neighbour is feeding the occupants of that cabin to her pet Zombies. Obviously, needing to rectify the situation, it's up to the kids to save themselves and their hard-partying parents from being Zombie-food.

MY VERDICT:

I was looking forward to this movie in the run up to release - trailers had some light-hearted comedic value, the Zombies looked authentic and witnessing people take on the apocalypse with ice-hockey gear and hand-crafted spiked baseball bats is definitely a qualifier for "bad-ass" status. Unfortunately, though, I was let down; Dead Shack is a shambling mess of a movie. Basically, there is just nothing to it. The Zombies that actually are fairly detailed and grotesque-looking? There's only around five of them and they are only on-screen for a short time, being pretty much useless, lacking in aggression as they square-off against children (the director clearly didn't want to show children being killed). And that is a big problem with the movie, most of it is led by three argumentative, unlikable children who are all fairly poor at acting. The only highlight is the drunk dad who adds the majority of the humour to the film. Even his performance is not enough to save this dire film though.