Hapless Jack (an excellent and engaging performance by Billy Garberina) and his sarcastic best buddy Alex (an equally fine and likable portrayal by Adam Jarmon Brown) are a couple of bickering slacker friends who get a dangerous new job killing vampires, zombies, and werewolves after they are hired as employees for the monster extermination company Zom-B-Gone. Directors Garberina and Richard Griffin, working from a witty script by Brown and Garberina, relate the off-the-wall story at a zippy pace, maintain a delightfully zany tone throughout, deliver a handy helping of over-the-top gore (the sequence with a vampire sucking out a baby's brains with a straw rates as a terrifically tasteless highlight), and ably milk the wickedly funny sense of spot-on wacky humor for a wealth of belly laughs (the fierce profanity-ridden verbal sparring between Jack and Alex is frequently hilarious). The enthusiastic cast have a field day with the loopy material: Brown and Garberina display a winningly sharp, quirky, and natural chemistry in the colorful lead roles, Brandy Bluejacket bitches it up deliciously as Jack's whiny, needy, and selfish girlfriend Penny, Matt Chavez does well as smooth and formidable master vampire Clark, Gene Grant contributes an appealingly laid-back turn as easygoing pothead boss Keith, and Jeremy Owen makes a brief, but memorable appearance as rough'n'tumble redneck Paul. The roaring rock soundtrack provides an extra galvanizing hopped-up energy. Best gag: Alex's penchant for drinking holy water pays off in a most useful way at the very end. An absolute riot.
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