Review of Aaah! Zombies!!

Last night I watched 'Aaah! Zombies!!' (aka 'Wasting Away') on the Chiller channel. I really wasn't expecting much, just a typical low budget zombie movie. Instead of the usual, it turned out to be a VERY funny film. The story was presented from the zombie's point of view often with hilarious results. I have not seen a horror film this funny since 'Shaun of the Dead'. In fact this movie is arguably even funnier than that was to me. The premise is that the military develops a serum that is supposed to turn average soldiers into super soldiers. Reminded me of how Captain America was created. Instead the serum turns a soldier being tested into a flesh-eating zombie. Later the faulty serum somehow finds its way into some ice cream eaten by four young friends, two girls and two guys. For some reason they eat it regardless of its strange green glow. It turns them into zombies only they don't realize it till much later in the story. The film is presented in both B/W and Color. The color scenes are from the Zombies point of view, the B/W 'Night of the living Dead' looking scenes are from other peoples view point. Or was it the other way around? Anyway, it was an imaginative idea on the part of the film's makers. The zombies don't see themselves as moving slow at all, instead they see the normal people as moving very fast and think they are the ones acting strangely. To each other the zombies seem normal just has they had always been except they are much stronger and can't be seriously hurt by bullets and the like. It's only others that see them as slow moving decaying corpses that growl. Later they finally see themselves in a mirror and realize the truth. There is also a very funny fifth zombie that is a janitor in the military who had the rank of private first class. He thinks he has been turned into a super soldier and acts accordingly. He's very convincing to the other zombies...for a time. This character and his military like noble attitude adds to the film's fun. Later of course more zombies join them as they too are infected. Finally they are all on a quest to find a sort of promised land where they can all live in peace and not worry about the crazy humans out to destroy them.

I especially enjoyed the segment in the bowling alley where the zombies bowl against some drunken bowling teams who at first don't notice anything unusual about them. Another especially funny scene is when a boy zombie goes to speak to his girlfriend's family about dating her. His girlfriend is also one of the undead. Her family is understandably horrified by his arrival at their door.

I recommend this film to anyone that enjoys a good horror comedy full of belly laughs.