Ibiza Undead

So I'm a big fan of Zombie films, and I have seen some great ones "Shaun of the Dead" and some bad ones which are still watchable "Cockneys v Zombies" And then there is this. This film is so bad its beyond belief, firstly the storyline is completely illogical, the acting is terrible, the characters are unlikable and very 2 dimensional To be fair to it, I did go into this thinking it was going to be bad but thought that like Cockneys v Zombies it would have some humorous bits in it and would be watchable and at least it would have a good soundtrack being that it's based on the Party Island of Ibiza But even the soundtrack was terrible! The only thing this gave me was a belief that if I wanted to get into film making I could make a film better than this

An Ebola type virus has created a zombie pandemic. Ibiza is seemingly a zombie free island. Sinister gay nightclub owner has zombie dancers and smuggles them in for no good reason. In fact he has lost a cargo of illegal alien zombies in the sea and wonders if they can swim.

Despite zombie mania, three horny teenage lads and one ex-girlfriend holiday to Ibiza to party. Alex is staying at his sister's villa. Jim is chubby, horny and misogynistic. When they go to a nightclub, crazed zombies go on a frenzy and our heroes need to escape Ibiza.

This is a juvenile and silly film. The teenage lads are by and large irritating, the acting is amateurish, the effects are ultra low budget, humour is non existent and the scrip is rubbish.

Not comedy, not even bad comedy, just a movie so bad it's almost comical. Emily Atack and Matt King must have shot this flick saying over and over to themselves "think of the paycheck think of the paycheck think of the paycheck". You will get the odd cringey laugh *at* the movie rather than anything *in* the movie, but it's not worth the time. Terrible, 1/10 maybe 0/10.

"Ibiza Undead" happened to sneak up on me unnoticed. I am a big zombie aficionado, but somehow this title had managed to elude me. So when I happened to come across this 2016 horror comedy, I naturally jumped at the chance to watch it.

With a combination of exotic holiday location and a zombie outbreak, I must admit that "Ibiza Undead" seemed to be primed up to have the potential for being something truly good. Dare one hope for something in the likes of "Shaun of the Dead"?

The movie quickly establishes itself a horror comedy aimed for a younger party-loving audience, but hey that was also to be expected given the title of the movie, right?

Like so many other zombie movies we are offered no explanation as to what is the course of the infection. But isn't that just a part of the genre by now already, keeping the audience unaware and in the dark? Then again, it is the zombies that we hunger for, pardon the pun, not the science behind the infection, is it not? Personally I don't understand why you would keep zombies around for entertainment and staff at a holiday resort. It just didn't make much of any sense actually. But hey, it is a movie after all.

While the storyline was quite simplistic, the movie does put the audience into the outbreak and carnage fairly quickly, about half an hour into the movie then it kicks up the gear a notch.

It is quite apparent that director and writer Andy Edwards has drawn heavy inspiration from "Shaun of the Dead", given the character gallery, dialogue, as well as the concept of the movie and the idea behind it. But still, "Ibiza Undead" does have enough of originality to be its own movie.

There were some nice enough gory scenes here and there throughout the course of the movie. However, don't except this to be a gore flick though.

The zombie make-up and effects were adequate and served the movie well enough. And it is always nice to have zombies that are beyond the face painted grey and then the make-up department has forgotten about the rest of the body. While the zombie effects are not among the goriest or most gruesome of zombie effects and make-up that I have seen in a zombie movie (or series), then they were indeed good enough here in "Ibiza Undead".

While "Ibiza Undead" is listed as a horror comedy, then there was actually very little of both to be had here. I suppose that having zombies in a movie suffice it to be labeled as a horror movie. As for the comedy in the movie, well you have to look long and hard to find that.

"Ibiza Undead" is a fair enough addition to the zombie genre, however it wasn't outstanding or particularly extraordinary. It proved to be good enough entertainment for what it turned out to be.

I lived in Ibiza for 10 years, I love zombies and I love Matt King ... so it took some doing on the part of the filmmakers to make me hate this movie.

King is obviously there for a pay-check and a week in Ibiza, while the rest of the cast do their best in-betweeners impression.

Aside from a bit of stock footage and a scene in a San Antonio nightclub, we don't really get to see much of the White Isle itself, leading me to think more than half of this garbage was shot elsewhere having spent all the budget on booze during the Ibiza shoot.

Endless scenes of cringeworthy dialogue, a totally baffling story-line (if you can call it that), strained performances, bad special effects and a run time that feels like hours.

This is hard to watch - there is nothing to recommend it. Perhaps a half decent short could have been made as there is some level of basic competence in parts.

I watched for free on Prime and I want my money back. 2/10 - 1/2 for effort, 1/2 for Matt King and 1 for letting me see a few of my old local hangouts.