The Resurrection Game

Every Friday evening our film group watches two films. Our second feature was handed to one of our viewers, by the director, at some film convention. It's a zombie film and we are all interested in seeing all the zombie films made, so we took a chance. The Resurrection Game is a low budget zombie film directed by Mike Watt, who's also the writer of the movie, the novelization of the movie, and many articles in many horror movie magazines that I don't read. I thought the movie was pretty poor. It was made over 3-4 years starting in 1997. While that worked for Peter Jackson when he made Bad Taste, it doesn't help here. It's pretty hard to watch. It's got a lot of technical problems. Bad and uneven sound. Poor editing of the often poorly shot scenes. What was up with all those close ups? Couldn't see a thing happening at times. And the fight scenes? Sad. Once the spanking nun did a flying kick that was totally embarrassing to watch. Fair to awful acting. A complicated story, filled with clichés, that doesn't get explained very well. Too many other issues to list. I'd be more forgiving of these kind of problems if I liked the story and characters better. Neither of which held my interest very well. One guy slept through parts of the movie, filling in for another guy, who was absent. Lucky day to be gone, or asleep. The zombie make up was fair to poor. Occasionally someone would get a cup of blood thrown in their face. There were some light moments that weren't very funny, and some serious moments that were. We all liked Necro-Phil, the zombie puppet. Too bad the movie wasn't just those 3-4 minutes with Phil. Luckily this isn't readily available on DVD.