A director is filming a zombie movie that gets crashed by actual zombies. The actors and production staff are horrified. The director, meanwhile, is thrilled - he's finally getting the realistic performances he wanted from his actors.

There's a lot more to this than that, but saying too much would be spoiling things. Just trust me, as long as you're okay with occasional mild bodily fluid humor (there are a couple on-screen moments when someone gets vomited on, and one person spends time battling diarrhea but doesn't actually do anything on-screen), this is a surprisingly good movie.

I admit to being disappointed at first. The first 40 or so minutes looked like a badly-done zombie movie, with only occasional moments of slight humor as the director shoved a zombie at his actors in order to film their reactions or appeared out of nowhere to catch their screams of terror. People didn't always behave in ways that made sense, and one character completely lost it much earlier in the story than I would have expected.

The start of the second half of the movie was confusing as heck, and it took me a while to get my bearings, but the final half-hour or so was comedy gold, while at the same time coming across as surprisingly believable.

Give this one a chance - it's much better than it initially appears to be.

Extras:

Outtakes, photo gallery, and POM! instructional video.

(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) ( )