Brain Freeze

A French Canadian zombie movie with an emphasis on quirky comedy alongside the usual invasion scenario. I wasn't too impressed with this low budget feature which I felt was just going through the motions without innovating or offering anything new at any point. A cold blur filter on the filming and cheap contact lenses for the zombies. Uninteresting characters and humour that fails to hit the mark. Not for me.

I've seen many zombie movies, this one isnt in any way special, but it aint particularly annoying either, because it has some nice jokes. It'll do...

Unfortunately I had to watch a redubbed version, with English studio voices mixed in, so the mouths were moving when no words were coming out. THAT was kinda annoying. Was the original language French Canadian?

The film follows a teen as he takes care of his baby sibling during a local outbreak of zombies on a secluded island. This is definitely not a comedy unless your idea of such are Twin female assassins in wet suits and carrying pistols with silencers showing up about half way through the movie. THAT was pretty humorous. Perhaps light hearted is a better phrase. A bit too long. 5 out of 10 stars.

Compared to the overly saturated zombie market this wasn't too bad. I've seen better or worse zombie movies in the last year. There's a few interesting things going for this but overall it falls flat. The only half decent acting was from Roy Dupuis and the other characters you'd want dead from the zombies ASAP.

I reckon if you take one message from this movie, it has to be: only drink Coca Cola ... I'm kidding of course, but there is some movie truth in there. The brain freeze of the title does happen during the run time of the movie - of course it very likely is also a wordplay on what happens to many people in this.

A nice little movie, with interesting leads. The main focus though (and not just because the director said it), is the baby of the movie. And while for some, babies in movies can feel cliche and annoying (I emphasize I am talking about movies, not the real world), the baby in this movie is amazing. I doubt it will get nominated for an Oscar/Academy Award, like the director suggested in his video message to us festival goers, but you can clearly see how good the little ones are (played by twins).

Other than that, you can expect the usual ... good effects overall though, well acted and edited too. Predictable and a bit of a let down when it comes to the ending (which is a bit cliche to say the least), but nobody is perfect, right?