Zombie eXs

Unsympathetic slacker Zach (an extremely grating performance by Alex Hammel-Shaver) breaks up with his latest girlfriend. His rowdy buddy Dan (an equally obnoxious portrayal by Scott Keebler) takes advantage of the situation by rigging a dating game show Zach is going to appear on by making all the contestants Zach's former girlfriends. Complications ensue when the show's sponsor HAPIwater creates a new popular drink that turns everyone who consumes it into ravenous zombies.

While the clever central premise has potential, alas director/co-writer George Smith squanders said potential by making the main characters of Zach and Dan a couple of exceptionally unlikable and insufferable jerks whose rat-a-tat-tat comic bantering proves to be much more irritating than amusing. Moreover, Smith tries way too hard to make the plot be as zany as possible; the humor frequently feels forced and hence simply isn't that funny. Worse yet, a disagreeable misogynistic streak pervades throughout and leaves a foul aftertaste. On the plus side, the adorable Madison Hart provides a much needed (and appreciated) dash of charm and spark as meek nerdette Lilly, Roberto Lombardi contributes a hilarious bit as a smarmy TV show host, and there's a satisfying smattering of splatter. But overall this one sizes up as a lackluster wash-out.

I watch just about anything that includes zombies, and most of the time it is some fairly questionable movies that go through the player. "Zombie eXs" was indeed one such movie.

The storyline in the movie was actually the best part of the movie. It had potential, but it was just shattered by horrendous acting and lack of commitment from most actors and actresses. The storyline is not your average take on the zombie genre. There is a good amount of comedy and interesting ideas here.

However, it was so poorly translated from script to screen, that it was just a downright bad experience to sit through this movie. And I must admit that I actually fell asleep during the feature. It just didn't have that much appeal.

Most of the people on the cast list were not really putting in attempts of delivering performances with their hearts and soul. And a combination of lack of conviction and really awful dialogue didn't help to lift up the movie as a whole. The only person who put on a memorable performance and actually seemed to have an ounce of acting talent was Madison Hart (playing Lilly).

The zombie make-up effects were adequate for a movie of this caliber, production and type. Don't expect to be blown away though. The zombies here are not your averagely defined zombies of the genre, and they were pulled off nicely enough.

"Zombie eXs" had potential, but it was ultimately brought to its knees by the awful dialogue and a lack of commitment from the people cast for the various roles.

There are far, far better zombie movies out there of the amateur kind. And I can't honestly think of a reason to recommend this particular zombie movie to anyone.

Zombie films often get a bad rap, they seem to be one of the go to sub-genres for people with a minimal budget and therefore there are a lot of really really bad ones out there.

Zombie eXs is such a film, hyper low budget, looks awful and doesn't deliver on pretty much any front. It is however not the worst out there, not by far.

It tells the story of a guy with a history of psychotic ex's, when one day a zombie outbreak begins which started with these lovely ladies he finds himself on the run with his best friends.

A comedy horror I have to say I didn't laugh much, most of the jokes are puerile childish stuff .The type of skits you'd see on Youtube by guys with 100 videos but 3 followers.

The zombies look naff, the plot is confusing and it has more than a slight sprinkling of sheer unadulterated stupidity.

It has a level of charm, our leading lady was great, and it has its redeeming features. However in no universe would I ever dream of recommending this to anyone.

The Good:

Decent soundtrack

Madison Hart

A few giggles

The Bad:

A tremendous amount of the "Comedy" falls flat

Offensively amateurish

Some really stupid elements

For some odd reason, a young man named "Zach" (Alex Hammel-Shaver) doesn't seem to have a difficult time dating women. The problem, however, is that it seems that all of the women he tries to build a relationship with him are extremely toxic. To the point that they all refuse to accept the fact that things are over between them and continually harass him into getting back together again. And although he resists all of these efforts, things become quite tense when his drunken friend "Dan" (Scott Keebler) casually enters his name into a televised dating game show. Not seeing any harm in it, Zach willingly goes along with it and shows up to the studio at the appropriate time. However, it's only then that he realizes that Dan also accidentally entered several of his former girlfriends to appear on the show as well. Even worse is the fact that the show's sponsor is offering a new drink which just happens to turn those who drink it into angry, ravenous zombies--and all of Zach's former girlfriends have plenty of it to drink. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that I honestly didn't expect too much from this film and, as a result, I wasn't too disappointed with it once I finally finished watching it. To be sure, there were a couple of unique characters who were somewhat amusing--with the one former girlfriend who was always texting on her cellphone being the most comical, in my opinion. But even so, the action scenes tended to become rather redundant after the first 30 minutes or so, and from that point on it just wasn't that interesting or entertaining for me. Be that as it may, while this certainly wasn't the worst zom-com I have ever seen, I can't say it was something that I honestly enjoyed, and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.