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ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction

NB! Additional Screening Saturday 26th Sep at 9pm, Dubrovnik

”ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction” is part of a rare breed: a horror-comedy that’s actually consistently funny and occasionally almost scary. Unbelievably violent even by zombie-movie standards, the film is nonetheless weirdly good-natured and often quite clever, and reps a promising start for debut director-scripter Kevin Hamedani.

Heavily indebted to George Romero (as any good zombie film ought to be), ”ZMD” uses the familiar genre trappings to satirize homophobia and the jingoism and xenophobia that flourished around the beginning of the Iraq War. These subjects are so exhausted that they can barely be roused for the ribbing, so it’s fortunate that the film opts to tackle them through twisted humor rather than through preaching or heavy-handed symbolism. (…)

Bloody, old-school special effects are very ably and cleverly pulled off, and the score nods to the Moog-heavy music of the pic’s late-’70s inspirations.

– ANDREW BARKER, VARIETY