Acid Pit Stop

First things first, there is way too much buildup before the zombies even enter the picture; the first two acts are wasted on insufferable dialogue and a bland buildup that see's our leads engaging in the typical teenage drama that surrounds their attempts to attain said drug and distribute it to the awaiting masses.

Secondly, I think I saw my grandfather at that "rave". Talk about the most random assortment of individuals to ever comprise a rave ever. I am pretty sure the producers went to the closest Aldi Supermarket in the UK and offered pennies on the dollar for anyone that wanted to be a zombie for 10 minutes.

Good but really could of used more boobs. Had the cast to make even better just missed out on utilizing them right.

This is a film that lacks just about any assemblance of any skill, poor performances, poor story, poor everything. Feels like it was made for all of £2.50 and that's being optimistic, my how Bruce Payne has slid down the scale.

Traveling to a secret rave, a group of friends decide to pick up some extra drugs from a local dealer to spice up the event, but when they find the drugs are laced with a chemical that turns the infected ravers into flesh-eating zombies they are forced to band together to escape the situation alive.

This was a decent if somewhat flawed genre effort. One of the films' better features is the overall solid enough means of getting the zombie virus unleashed and loose within the party as it captures the raver lifestyle decent enough. Despite some of the budgetary limitations coming into play, the first half here still comes off rather well with the way they take the drugs from their source and absentmindedly provide it for the guests to consume. The resulting zombification and massive swarming scenes of the undead forces succumbing to the drug and ripping their victims to pieces has a lot of fun here with the constant attacks throughout the abandoned building where they hold the rave allowing for some genuinely strong sequences of the creatures attacking. With the whole thing driven by some great practical effects for the zombie action and kills throughout here, there are some fun factors to be had with this one. There are some drawbacks here that hold this one down. The main factor against it is the generally problematic structure of the film where it never seems to know what it wants to be. The encounter with the drug dealer, the relationship that develops involving the former lovers coming back together, or the quips that get thrown about involving the group trying to stay together give off a goofy tone that flies in the face of the material found here which is far more serious in nature so this kind of wacky content falls incredibly flat. On top of that, there's an absolutely infuriating and maddeningly stupid setup that's supposed to provide a human victim to the proceedings but is so unnecessary and useless that nothing about it works as the motivation is stupid, the rationale about it is even worse, the scenes playing it out so lame there's no scares to be had, and it just ends this on such a whimper there's little turning back. As well as the aforementioned budgetary limitations, these are the drawbacks to be had with this one.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, drug use, and Brief Nudity.

I can see what the writer/director was going for with this. Shaun of the Dead springs to mind. But Shaun of the Dead this is very much not.

Poor sound, lighting, poorly shot and a mish-mash of makeup effects (not so horrendous but definitely far from good) and extremely low budget CGI (definitely horrendous).

However, the kicker for me was the acting. Or in this case lack of acting. The cast were a somewhat eclectic collective who frankly had no chemistry, looked out of place, and were wooden and perhaps most unforgivable, just not funny.

Everything else you can ignore but a lack of comedy in a comedy defeats the point of actually watching it. The story was non-existent. Tired tropes, though had it of been well directed/shot you might have a made a few quid on. However, at times you couldn't hear what was being said, the supporting cast were laughably bad and the extras (zombies) looked like they'd been borrowed from a teenage drama group.

Horror comedy is a niche that when done well is phenomenal (SotD, or Dale and Tucker vs Evil as great examples). This however, is neither horror nor comedy. As the title of the film suggests, this is very much an acid pit stop prior to diving into a very bad trip.

If you're looking for a mediocre horror as background noise, whilst you do other things. Go elsewhere.