Zombie Night (2003)

Wonderful character development!

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

To all you would-be obscure movie watchers out there, look out for the multi-DVD pack called Urban Chills. Though it has one or two decent films, the rest are pretty lousy. Trust me, it's got ZOMBIE NIGHT! *SIGH!* Zombies have become the latest "In" things. And while I'm ecstatic to see what will be coming down the pipeline (hm, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, anyone?) I'm starting to grow weary that zombies will go the way of vampires after TWILIGHT. In other words, they'll start losing their scariness. Anyway, now done with my rant, let's continue.ZOMBIE NIGHT is one of those standard-issue people stranded in a vacant building, desperately trying to survive, as zombies come out to torment them. In terms of story, that's really all this film has to offer. None of the characters is interesting or quirky enough. None of their dialogue is particularly fascinating. But what the film does have is low budget gore in droves! Limbs, heads, severed arteries... spurt and fly all over the place. Not much else, really, to recommend it. For unintentional laughs, however, there's plenty of stupid characters doing stupid things. It really is quite amazing they didn't all die within the first thirty minutes! By the end, it leaves you hanging. Now rumor had it that a sequel was in the works. But hopefully, that will never happen. My advice: Pass right over this one, and just wait for The Walking Dead to come back on AMC!

Mark (Cole) and Shelley (Segovic) are driving home from a weekend camping trip and turn on the car radio to hear that a war has started which is turning the dead into zombies. They take shelter with their young daughter Amber (Andrea Ramolo) in a warehouse area until they run into Dave (Ticknovich) whose wife is killed. They quickly pick up others and form a group struggling to survive. A hot head member of the group named Derek (Moniz) keeps causing trouble which eventually leads to members of the groups being killed by the zombies. This low budget outing from Producer, Writer and Director David J. Francis gets some good marks from the obvious fun it looks like they had making this. Francis is a real Zombie movie fan and that enthusiasm shows despite rough dialog and poor acting. Lead actor Danny Ticknovich could be a stunt double for Tom Cruise due to his looks but didn't get Cruise's acting chops. The gore, and there is a lot of it, ranges from great to very poor, sometimes from scene to scene. The movie just stops rather than having an actual ending which is puzzling. Overall, "Zombie Night" is poor but that Independent spirit and love of Zombie films comes through and it almost makes this watchable. At least the film makers gave it their best shot.

I'll be completely honest. I don't think this movie gets a lot of credit. It wasn't a horrible movie, but it wasn't also the best.Acting was pretty atrocious though. Some of the worst acting ever. Even some of the lines were extremely bad.Some of the characters I actually liked though. Though many were disposable.There are movies that have low quality cameras that really add to the grittiness and the mood the movie. It's not for every movie, but I think it worked for this one. It's more believable in my opinion. I saw that "comedy" was added to the description of this movie. Really? It wasn't intentional. Overall, I really liked this movie and didn't think it was that bad. There are MUCH MUCH worse movies out there. Take the good with the bad.

The story is not original, not coherent and not enjoyable to watch. It's nothing more than lame idiots (how many no one really knows as the numbers inexplicably keep changing) running around trying to survive zombie attacks.The characters aren't very interesting in the first place --- just a bunch of dumb clichés. Even so, the acting is pathetic and these people should be embarrassed. It's more than just what they say, their actions and movements are all off and out of sync with nearly every scene.The DIALOGUE is deplorable. The last time I heard characters repeatedly speak in such a stilted manner was in those old Saturday morning cartoons from the 1970s.The writers really ruined this movie; if you don't start with a well written story there's no sense in even making a movie.