Review of Wasting Away (2007) by Brian S — 17 Feb 2011

Great low budget zombie film. This starts with the typical old school zombie film thing of a top secret serum leaking into some ice-cream mix and when eaten by a group of friends they turn into flesh hungry zombies.

BUT WAIT! What makes this different from most other zombie movies is the way that the serum makes the friends believe that they aren't infected, its everyone else thats the problem so we see alot of the film from the perspective of the zombies themselves which is cool and often funny.

Whats also cool is the use of black and white and colour. Also, for a B-movie, this is well written, the actings mostly good and cute blonde Betsy Beutler is as good looking as any other Hollywood A-list lady.

Although I found an idea towards the end didn't work and would have rather just had the four/five friends together until the end, this is an entertaining, fun and fairly original zombie flick that horror fans should watch and zombie fans must watch.