Review of A Little Bit Zombie (2012) by Charles F — 08 Mar 2013

Definitely not your average zombie flick. As a creative spin-off of the genre, it is clever, funny, and entertaining. The special FX are plenty good and the camera work is better than you would expect from such a movie; moreover, the acting is spot-on.

Aside from the first few minutes, where the comedy seems banal, the rest of the film is genuinely humorous. We watch as the main character, Steve, undergoes the gradual transformation into becoming a brain-munching zombie during a trip to the woods with his glitzy high-maintenance fiancee, tomboyish sister and her bulging Seann William Scott lookalike husband.

There'll all young and good-looking, and they have no idea what awaits them. When Steve gets bitten by an infected mosquito, the hunger starts to take over. The thing is, he's no normal zombie.

It so happens that Steve is carrying a resistant strain of the virus, which gives rise to some unexpected side-effects. As mad Max puts it while pointing a gun at Steve's face, "out of all the zombie's I've killed, you're the most human.

" Max is described by his sexy sidekick as "the muscle" whereas she is presumably the brains. The two of them hunt down and kill the undead using an ancient mystical orb that is a sort of a zombie radar.

But the main plot surrounds the other two couples and how they cope with Steve's metamorphosis. It's a decent movie. If you're a fan of the genre, this is a must-see. For everyone else, you can take comfort in the fact that the comedy tag is accurate.