Zoombies 2016 5 out of 10 (Zombie Movie Review # 10)

Zoombies 2016  5 out of 10

One of my favorite SO BAD it is GOOD movies was a low budget Jurassic Park rip off called The Mummy Theme Park.  Theme parks, museums and zoos are great settings for horror movies.   So when I was scanning the guide on the TV and saw this low budget Jurassic Park wannabe I immediately recorded it.  I mean it had a great concept.  A bunch of animals at a Zoo come down with a Zombie like Virus and all hell breaks loose.  I saw that it was an Asylum film which could mean that it was really horrible or that like Sharknado it could be SO BAD it is GOOD.  I guess it was wishful thinking.

I didn't recognize any of the actors at all in this flick...so they didn't spend the films budget on that.   Well they definitely didn't spend it on the special effects either.   The movie starts with an infected monkey at the zoo infected some other monkeys and taking out the scientists that were trying to help him.  To cut down on costs the Zoo hadn't actually opened to the public yet  (no need for those costly extras).  The movie basically consists of some interns and a small security staff as the victims of the spreading animal zombie virus that apparently turns the animals into some really bad CGI animals with Grey eyes.   The movie has some lackluster dialogue like "We could be dead and so could all the animals".  I was curious as to where they actually filmed the movie since it looked like some scenes were shot at an old abandoned zoo (not one that was about to open).

The best moments were the CGI Giraffe attack and the attack Koala which the little girl ( SPOILER)  apparently takes a baseball bat to off screen.

Like I said it was a cool concept that was just severely limited by the films budget --which was a shame.  I give them credit for trying....I'd just like to see this concept done right with a lot more money.

One other thing.....The Movie title was weak.....Better titles would have been.   Zombie Zoo.   Death Zoo.  Really Wild Animal Park of the Dead.

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Megashark vs Mecashark 2014 3 out of 10

Megashark vs Mechashark  2014

I was working my way through a bunch of bad Japanese stuntman in a Godzilla suit movies on a Chiller TV Godzilla marathon and after about 3 of those --decided to switch things up a little and watch some Giant CGI sharks battle it out.    Megashark vs Mechashark  is the third movie in the Megashark franchise and wow was this 3rd installment terrible.    The movie poster is awesome and I'm always up for a bad shark movie---but this was really, really bad (unfortunately just bad and not so bad it is good like Sharknado was).

The movie stars a couple of recognizable actors that I have enjoyed in other projects,  Elizabeth Rohm  (from Angel)  and Christopher Judge (from Stargate SG1) .  Unfortunately they spend the entire first half of the movie sitting in chairs talking to each other via intercoms.  This doesn't give them much to do other than read bad dialogue to each other.   Debbie Gibson is also back in a role that literally adds nothing to the movie.   The plot was totally predictable,  after all the previous Megashark attacks the government decides to build a mechanical shark to battle the Megashark which Elizabeth's character (Rosie)  pilots with the help of a computer that sounds like KITT from Knight Rider.   Well things go wrong  after a couple of lackluster battles between the 2 sharks   and the Robot shark loses its programming and goes on a rampage through  what is supposed to be Sydney, Australia , but is actually Long Beach CA.    It was just a really boring and dull giant shark movie that even had a dull and boring climax that wasn't much better than the dreadful low budget Super Shark.    I guess I should have just kept watching the bad Godzilla movies instead.....

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The Land That Time Forgot 2009 5 out of 10

LOST with a Dinosaur.......It came out around the same time that  the big budget Will Ferrell Land of the Lost came out --plus the TV show LOST --about being stuck on a strange island was on ABC as well......(Asylum has a habit of doing that....just see Almighty Thor----I mean Don't see Almighty Thor it was terrible)..... My Almighty Thor Review is  here

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      I hate that they are able to put the words Edgar Rice Burrough's The Land That Time Forgot  on the box because low budget movies like this and my previously reviewed  Jules Verne's  Mysterious Island really don't do those classic books justice.  

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Someone growing up today my be turned off from reading this classic books after watching these  cheap low budget versions of them with the names of such classic authors attached.  Edgar Rice Burrough's  deserves  versions like Disney's  Tarzan and John Carter rather than  films starring (C Thomas Howell).   That being said ---at least this  direct to DVD movie was watchable unlike the Mysterious Island film that was direct to Syfy earlier this year.    Sure it was low budget and they kept shooting scenes in the same 5 shot locations over and over again.....But for an Asylum movie this one was decent in all its cheesy glory.