When I heard about Zombie With A Shotgun, the title had me curious — it was a turn-around on the typical premise. Usually the shotgun is used on the zombies, but in this case the zombie apparently has a shotgun. The title also made me think of Hobo With A Shotgun.
I watched Zombie With A Shotgun on TubiTV — it was my first time using Tubi. I had higher hopes about ZWAS because of the promotion I had seen online and the implied campiness. Ultimately … the acting is thin, the dialogue delivery is hardly better, and the gratuitous Z-film boobs are further enhanced by some sort of hallucinations of lesbian kissing followed by some of the same Z-film boobs in the shower with boy-butt just to keep things in balance. Outside of that, I barely have an idea what the point of the film was. Were this a book a friend referred to me I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t finish reading it.
I appreciate the independent film spirit — and I honestly believe that the film wants to be something. It has a visual polish — a certain professional look — but everything else falls short. It is as though the filmmakers had the right money, cameras, etc to make the film but the story writing and actors weren’t much better than most of the self-produced Z-films on YouTube. The development of whatever the story is hardly makes sense even 30 minutes into the film and it’s only 79 minutes long.
Before I finished the film I already began debating if I would rate Zombie With A Shotgun would receive my Red Blood or Yellow Puss zombie-film rating. Conclusion … maybe I need to come up with some kind of orange rating. ZWAS isn’t a great zombie film, but there are worse Z-films.
Frankly, I’m not sure how to rate the French-made zombie film “The Night Eats The World” — Green Ooze or Yellow Puss?!? From the looks of the set, the considerable number of zombie extras not to mention their make-up and training, there seems to be some money behind this. It mostly has just one actor, however — and he’s good, don’t get me wrong — but when a film does the artsy focal on one lone-character story … is that an artistic thing or lack-of-funding thing?
