One cut of the dead
- Geoff Powell
- Sep 6, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 9, 2020
Ok first Impressions while I’m waiting for the film to buffer. This film sucks balls! I’m 20 minutes in and I’m bored already. The camera work is shoddy at best the acting is awful, the premise of the plot is so tired and dated. It’s like a very bad version of The Blair Witch and I hated that movie.
So far while trying to get a scene shot in a zombie movie the director loses his shit and leaves after the 42nd take. So he resorts to performing a ritual to wake up real zombies so he can film his actors fighting for there life’s. Sounds great right? No not really!
Ok now I’m about 40 minutes in and I have literally no idea what the fuck is going on! The terrible zombie film has finished credits and everything and we’ve gone back in time. The director has been approached by some tv executives and asked to make the zombie film I’ve just witnessed. Then there were more credits as if the film just started and now we are in the directors house. Ok I’m gonna continue watching now.
Ok I’m finished now. I kind of get it, it’s like the disaster artist if the disaster artist was about a zombie film filmed gonzo style. Except the disaster artist was about another film (the room to be exact (hilariously bad film if you haven’t seen it (haha! See what I did there!))) and this film made a film within a film about a film being made.
Its unique I’ll give it that.
What to say about it? Did I enjoy it? Um kind of. I think at first I was like why has Shane picked this awful film? And am I going to have to sit thought another hour of this? Then midway I still kind of hated it but it showed some promise. Then by the end it had turned into a comedy of errors that made it to fun to hate. It’s a strange film I think I’m gonna leave it at that.
How do I rate it?
I’m just going to have to go middle of the road with this one only because I don’t really know how I feel about it so...
2.5 zombies but not really zombies just actors with irritable bowel syndrome shitting themselves in in the woods out of 5
The best rating system yet! 'zombies but not really zombie just actors with irritable bowel syndrome shitting themselves in the woods' should be the rating system adopted by all further film reviews. I love that this review was written in real time as you watched the film with the first couple of paragraphs written 20 mins in. If ever there was a perfect film to review that way it's this one.