Zombie Farm (2009)

Good movie but grossly overrated

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I never learn, do not buy a DVD which is number 68 in the charts and expect it to be any good.This film with what seems to be Spanish actors was dreadful, it starts with a woman getting beat up by her drunk husband and then she goes to see this man who advertises himself on the TV as some sort of helper for anything you want. The woman goes to see him and asks if he can help her with her wife beating husband but he says I cannot, she then goes to another source a woman she reads about in the paper.She then returns to the man and tells him shes killed her husband after giving him a potion from this woman, unfortunately he keeps coming back at night to see her to which all of a sudden a noise and the husband is there a zombie no less! He attacks them but they get away and go to the mans friend's house.There is also another female who wants to film this man so she tags along, that night the zombie finds them and attacks again and again they get away.The first hour of this film is mainly what I outlined you only see this one zombie and its boring!!! The last half hour they go to this woman's place (the one who gave the potion) and find she has zombies in her backyard so like most films go in her house and get caught and tied up and wait for the zombies to come out.The ending is all the zombies die because the woman made them with this potion and voodoo and when their effigies fall into a fire the zombies die smoking!! I found the acting wooden the story too tedious so my advice is please check that any film you want to buy you look it up beforehand on sites like IMDb, I wasted money and time on this piece of crap.

Alright, well "Zombie Farm" was nothing at all what I had expected or hoped it would be. Having bought it from Amazon, I was intrigued by the rather interesting looking DVD cover, and being a fan of all things zombie, I just had to add it to my collection."Zombie Farm" almost literally takes forever to get up in pace and take you places. The first half of the movie is about film-maker Pilar Franco (played by Adriana Cataño, who actually did a rather good job) following the small time swindler and seer Roque (played by Roberto Montesinos) around in order to make a documentary. He is taking money from the naive and hopeful, in return giving them something to hold on to in their troubled lives and situations. However, one client visits a voodoo woman after Roque failed to help her with her violent husband, and end up being haunted by her husband whom has now returned from death."Zombie Farm" gives you a lot of facts, whether they are true or just made up I know not, about certain aspects of the Latino knack for the supernatural. And yeah, I did find that interesting, but sitting for about half a movie 'learning' about this cultural stuff was not what I had expected from a movie labeled 'horror'.Then finally the zombies were revealed, yeah, it turned out there actually was zombies in the movie, but don't get your hopes up. Nothing major to come for here. It is not zombies in the Hollywood (or Romero-influenced) manner as most of us love, but take on that whole voodoo aspect, which didn't really impress me.Truth be told, then I fell asleep during this movie, it was just so dull and uneventful, not to mention slow paced. It was like its engine was left on, but the gear was in neutral. This movie fairly much was dull inside out. I don't know if you have to be Latino to fully grasp what was going on in this movie, or if you have to be into voodoo, but I do know, that for a zombie aficionado (Romero-style, and proud of it) like myself, then "Zombie Farm" was all but impressive. The movie was fighting a struggling battle uphill, and lost, I might add.Don't get me wrong, it wasn't all bad. The movie was actually nicely shot, and they did good jobs with the camera work. And the people cast for the various roles were actually doing great jobs, and it was nice to see an entire cast of new faces for a change.Just goes to prove the old saying: "don't judge a book by its cover". Which in this case was a DVD cover. I bought it solely because the cover was appealing and held the promise of some proper zombie action. "Zombie Farm" will be shelved in my DVD collection, bagged and tagged, never to be taken out and put into the DVD player ever again, it was just not worth the time of day.

A Latina documentary movie maker who can't sell her projects because they lack Latin flavor, in desperation decides to make a documentary on a corrupt Latin faith healer. Turns out he has a heart of gold and a real concern for his people. He can give great speeches on the hypocrisy of Latins who always aim for the white standard of beauty: blonde hair blue eyes. You get a sense where this is going...One of his customers is a woman who gets constantly beaten by her possessive husband. He can't and won't help her. She goes to another of these faith healers, a woman who practices Macumba. She gives her a potion to give to her husband. He drinks it and becomes a zombie. The reporter and the reformed charlatan who is now her sidekick in the investigation track down this voodoo priestess only to end up getting in trouble themselves. It all ends up in a violent showdown, Hollywood style.This movie is slow, performances are uneven, equipment used is not the best, lighting and camera-work are rather poor. The story though has a lot of potential and shows signs of intelligence, but also plenty of your standard college intro level minority politicking. I can't really recommend this movie unless you are the intended target audience for these sort of films that use some genre (zombie horror) to deliver a tired sociopolitical message. And the zombie horror doesn't really take up a lot of time either.

Desperate to end her husband's domestic abuse, a young woman seeks asylum fro ma local voodoo priestess. When warned that her husband may "change" if given a special potion, the abused wife is relieved. But waking up in bed next to a zombie isn't exactly the transformation she was hoping for! The film opens panning over the waters of Louisiana with some light guitar playing in a Spanish style. The film is definitely of a Hispanic or Latino flavor, with the cast and crew being of that background. And I hate to lump Latino films into one group, but they have not fared well -- even the ones that featured known actors, like "Day of the Dead", were pretty awful. I have not seen a good film from the Hispanic community since the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky.Perhaps you're wondering why the film took two years to be released? Or why it is named the same as a 2007 film, which was also overlooked by most people. I do not have those answers... you would have to ask the writer and director, Ricardo Islas.I am not going to lie. I opened my mail, found this film, and immediately groaned. One, zombies are overdone. I do not need more zombie films. Two, I have not heard of a single cast or crew member associated with this film, so I had no base to work from. And three, it came from Maya Entertainment, which I have no idea what that is. So my expectations were about as low as they could possible be. And, luckily, it was better than those expectations.The film tries to make social commentary by mentioning pedophile priests and Homeland Security tearing families apart (their words, not mine). There is talk of Marines invading Panama and raping the women, and how those babies (brown with blue eyes) are an improvement of the race. What the heck? These commentaries are just so haphazard, thrown in without cause. Maybe to stir people up, but for no reason I can tell.As for the zombies, well, they come from a voodoo priestess (who is Hispanic, not Caribbean, but does live in Louisiana). And they do not show up until a good while into the film. This is a family drama about domestic abuse... the zombie aspect of the story is just sort of thrown in, and I am not sure why. If there is supposed to be a subtle satire, they lost it on me.It sounds like I am bashing the film, and I am. Yet, you will see I gave it a decent rating. Here is why: although it is not really a horror film, but a drama about race and abuse with some horror elements, it is decent, and probably a good film if you go in with the right mindset. I think horror fans will be mislead and disappointed, but the Latino community may identify with it... I, unfortunately, am not part of that community and can only speculate.