Zombie Farm DVD Movie Review

 

When a battered bride seeks the assistance of a Louisiana-bred voodoo priestess to end the abuse, her husband winds up dead… kind of. He becomes zombified, but horror fans will have to wait quite awhile for the mayhem to begin – and most won’t bother. Even the fast-forward button doesn’t help much. There is no escaping the fact that Zombie Farm is more about sociopolitical allegories than it is about bloodthirsty undead monsters.

 

The trouble starts in the small town of Muerto Verde, CA., where a gang of Taliban warriors has poisoned the water supply, turning everyone, inexplicably, into cannibals. Or, they were already cannibals and the bad guys just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time — it's just one of the many things I lost, as my attention span drifted in and out of consciousness.

 

A confusing cache of characters populate this underwritten story — from the abused wife, to the pair of FBI Agents on the cannibalistic case, to a van loaded full of cookie-cutter teens — I had trouble following the threads, but did enjoy the exploding heads (effects were pretty well-done, considering the obvious thinness of the budget).

 

What saves Zombie Farm in the end is its goofy, Latino-styled sense of humor and the odd little death stings make it just worth watching. Once. With your finger at the ready on the fast-forward button.

 

There's a featurette, and also the movie was filmed in both English and Spanish (no dubbing here).

 

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Reviewed by Staci Layne Wilson