Detention Of The Dead (2012/Anchor Bay DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: C Film: C+
It was all
just a normal day at school when suddenly the school becomes infested with
zombies. Only 6 kids survive the first
wave: a nerd, Goth chick, a stoner, a stuck up high school cheerleader, a bully
jock and his underling. As they try to
get out of the school they battle the undead hordes, not that much different
from a normal day at school in Alex Craig Mann’s Detention Of The Dead (2012).
Obviously
another George Romero zombie homage, plus a little Breakfast Club thrown in, the 6 kids find themselves suddenly
trapped in school with the undead. Normally
the bully jock would just beat up the nerd, but now they must team up together
to fight the zombies. They fortify
themselves in the library and use their zombie lore from movies and video games
to find a way to get out of the school before all of them get eaten by the
zombie horde and zombie rats. As they
loose each other one by one they confess to each other what they really feel
and think about each other.
This was
another comedy zombie film; you’ve seen zombies, you don't care where they come
from or how they started as like most zombie films, it's all about the gore and
how the characters survive (or don't survive) the zombies. This film is not one of the 'scary' zombie
films, but more amusing and makes fun of all the zombie movies you seen before,
sort of like Napoleon Dynamite meets
the zombies when all is said and done.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is soft and lossy Dolby Digital 5.1
sound weaker than any Horror release, even a spoof, should be. Extras include commentary and behind the
scenes.
- Ricky Chiang
