An unexpected delight

Rating: 9/10 (6 February 2005)

This was one of those films that sneaks up on you. Jaded by endless inferior sequels and re-makes, I approached this film with some trepidation but was pleasantly surprised. "Night of the Living Dead" ripoffs are so common, one often has an aversion to parodies of this sort which have become a genre of their own. Nevertheless, this is a good-natured satire which this viewer found very entertaining. The characters are quirky without being bizarre, and there is a good deal of amusing self-parody - for instance, having one of the characters improbably exclaim, "we're going to get you, Barbara," referencing one of "Living Dead's" most well-known lines. All in all, a nice twist on a horror theme that is in danger of petrifying itself out of existence.