Zombies Gone Wild (2007 Video) User Reviews

One of the worst "films" I've ever seen...no lie.

[khoekstra · 1/10 · 1 July 2007]

Zombies Gone Wild tricked me. It's not the first time and it won't be the last. I picked up the DVD at Best Buy because it had cool cover art and had the Cohen Brothers names proudly displayed on it. Boy, do I feel like an idiot.

This movie is flat out terrible. And coming from me, that's saying a lot. I love B movies. I hardly watch anything else. But this movie, kiddies, is a D movie. It's right up there with Jack O'Lantern as the worst straight to DVD film I've ever seen.

For starters, it has the same video quality as your average wedding video. The lighting is terrible and the sound is worse. These people aren't actors, either. It's three guys with a camera and a van and a bunch of people they likely found by walking up to them on the streets and saying "Hey, would you like to be in a movie?" There's really no plot to speak of and the movie essentially meanders aimlessly for the first hour. At about the 40 minute mark, I actually started watching the movie in fast forward, praying that something interesting would happen. It never did.

What's worse is these guys are trying to be funny. But what they think is "funny" is essentially a series of poorly executed poop and fart jokes that fail to illicit a single chuckle throughout. I guess they were trying to make a horror comedy, but unfortunately there's no horror OR comedy to be found in this film.

A friend asked me to sum up my feelings on this movie and this is the best I could come up with: "If you gave a video camera and a $1000.00 budget to a mentally challenged 3rd grader, you'd probably get something more watchable." I gave this movie 1 out of 10 stars...primarily because the site won't let me give it 0 out of 10.

Avoid this movie like the plague...unless you want to own a $12.00 beer coaster/shaving mirror.

Lack of effort?

[kamakazieking · 1/10 · 1 July 2007]

Starting out, I didn't expect any for of Oscar worthy film, as I'm sure no one else was before watching this film. That being said, there seemed to be no direction at all. Scenes jumped, there seemed to be no story line, other than the quest to get laid and avoiding the 'zombies'. The acting was horrible and characters didn't stay in character. There is no ending whatsoever. The jokes consisted of a not so well placed soundboard fart, along with the other soundboard action sounds. The 'zombies' were more like vampires able to walk in the day and a bit uglier. Most of the scenes were in horrible locations. I can go on, but I'm a bit tired and I'm sure you get the point.

Don't even watch this film if all you want is a couple of boob shots, b/c they aren't there. One shot of breasts in black & white in a dream sequence. So get your kicks somewhere else.

So in conclusion, horrible acting, no good jokes, no storyline, no ending, and basically no boob. This film has nothing really. The only thing that was alright in this movie was Giselle Lopez (Sue) before the "zombification". She was quite attractive. I'm sure it was fun to make, but not to watch....sorry everyone involved.

Difficult to watch

[mcarpe37 · 1/10 · 21 January 2008]

This movie was bad, I realized that after watching this film (if you can even call it that) for nearly an hour and a half, nothing had happened. I mean I'm no Spielberg, but I have no doubt in my mind that I could make a better film than this in several hours. Though they tried to be funny, they're use of childish racial slurs and fart jokes simply got old after about the first 30 seconds. The "Cohens" should have saved their money and went to film school instead of trying to fool people into believing they were decent film makers like the Coens. If they read this I hope they get the point and decide to do something much more productive with their lives like raising alpacas.

Beavis and Butthead do Horror

[EllenRipley112 · 1/10 · 11 November 2007]

First of all, I need to enter my personal disclaimer--I only watched this movie because I am on a quest to watch every zombie movie possible, good or bad. And believe me, this was bad. Not because it's "not intended for the politically correct"--I can deal with that. It's because my definition of humor extends past the bathroom, whereas this movie's humor almost literally STARTS there. Too much time is wasted on unfunny dialogue, and there's not even enough scene cuts to make it interesting. The "offensive" humor would have worked if it was remotely funny. Most of it involved various bodily functions and watching them in action. Someone said this was supposed to be "Girls Gone Wild" with zombies. On the one hand, the zombies don't show up until well after an hour of the aforementioned dialogues, and on the other, guys looking to spot some female nudity of any kind are in for a serious disappointment. As a "zombie purist", I got a big problem with gorgeous women who are normal by day, and turn into zombies (that can carry on dialogue) at night--and then they stay zombies for the rest of the film. Speaking of film, where did these people learn how to do it? I was puzzled as the outdoor scenes went from morning to dusk in less than 5 minutes, then broad daylight, then nighttime, then morning again. And the ending is one of the cheapest cop-outs I have EVER seen in ANY film, although it did provide a few genuine laughs. And don't let the "cover art" fool you--the hottie and the sword never meet. All in all, there's not a shred of truth in any advertising of this movie. Avoid at all costs, unless you like wasting time and money.

Cohen brothers?!!

[corebeast · 1/10 · 17 April 2008]

I notice that not a single person involved in this project is named Cohen. Can we talk to the REAL Coen brothers about suing these freaks? If this was on MST3K, Tom Servo would commit robocide and kill everyone on the Satellite of Love. It's that much of an abortion. An open letter to the "Cohen" brothers: You guys need to stop. Please. What you do isn't camp, isn't ironic and sure as hell isn't a f**king movie. It looks like my disabled cousin hacked a bunch of home videos together. Do you people know what ADR is? How about color correction? Make-up? You come across as a bunch of bored California idiots whose mother bought them a camera. Stop smoking pot, read a book about film making (even one will help!), and don't quit your day jobs. PLEASE! This movie was physically painful to watch. (I own Flight of the living dead and I'm telling you this!) I bought this in a $ store for 2 bucks BTW, and I want those 60 minutes of my life back.

Find something else to do with your life. You suck at this. You're making all other independent filmmakers look like idiots.

P.S. Your fat friend in black-face isn't funny. He's the drunk idiot at the Frat party who thinks his bad accents are hilarious. They aren't.

Let the Producers watch it

[ej-smits · 1/10 · 29 December 2007]

By far the worst movie I've ever seen. That goes for story, filming, actors as well as the set. So don't bother and buy or rent this one but buy a beer or two, you'll have much more fun. I'll bet the budget was so low you couldn't even bring your date from it to MacDonalds.

There's absolutely nothing scary in this movie and if it was made to be funny then they also failed on that one.

If you still are going to watch this film you experience a home movie quality where every scene will take at least 5 to 10 minutes (way too long) before the next scene starts.

You remember when you tried your very first camera? Exactly!

Reg, Ed

Incompetent beyond words.

[elbrooko39 · 1/10 · 15 February 2008]

DO NOT RENT THIS DVD.

Under no circumstances.

It's like a drunk with a 53 IQ and a cheap video camera had a slow afternoon and decided to make a movie.

There's no way anyone involved with this production will ever appear in another role.

The worst thing about this is that everything I have written so far can't even come close to how bad this is.

IMDb really needs to give us negative numbers as an option for movies this bad- or the chance to toilet paper the trailer of the producer and director.

The Holy Grail of Horrible Movies

[geminate7 · 1/10 · 1 January 2008]

I wouldn't have even released this, this...uh thing.

Put my name on this thing? NO WAY.

Isn't there some sort of inspection done before releasing a movie to determine if it is even watchable? If not, just for this thing they should have come up with a new law to invent and use a computerized stink-o-meter. This thing would have broken the stink-o-meter and killed thousands nearby when checked.

Obviously the people that made and produced this thing have no shame, taste, talent or anything whatsoever going for them. Maybe they are rotting corpses, that would explain a lot.

Not only should you never ever see this thing, all copies and the master should be burnt so no one will ever have to endure this...this THING.

I can't vote 0, so here goes

[kainsbishop · 1/10 · 5 August 2008]

A couple of my friends made me watch this to torture me over making them watch Stink of the Flesh.

This movie made Stink of the Flesh seem like one of the top ten horror movies in existence.

I had to fast forward through much of this, and after I removed it from my DVD player, I promptly broke the disk in two, and made them march it out of my house.

It is that bad. IMDb is making me write more, so here goes;

SAVE YOURSELF, DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE. I cannot stress enough how bad this movie is. And I sat through the Dark Backward, so I know I can sit through an awful movie.

Word of Apology

[Christopher-Saphire · 15 July 2011]

Hello terribly duped public! My name is Chris and I was Randy in the hellish nightmare that was Zombies Gone Wild. First of all, let me apologize on behalf of Gary Roberts or "GR", the "Coen" brothers and the entirety of Westlake Entertainment, because they will never do it themselves. The year was 2006 and my roommate and I (Dave Competello) were scouring the earth for acting jobs when we found a movie that was to start filming immediately. We jumped on board and went to a reading in Chatsworth, (gulp). Here we read from terribly written sides, trying to land awful dick and fart jokes amidst improper sentence structures and atrocious spelling. Sentences would often begin with one train of thought and end with something completely different. We did our best to fight through it and wouldn't you know it, WE GOT THE PARTS! We began filming the next day and it was then that we realized, there was no script at all. Every day the director would come to us with pages he had written that night or that morning, complete with incoherence, and expect us to memorize and deliver it verbatim. The petty cash they paid us for those two months was barely enough to live on. They had no production, no script, no intentions. In short, PLEASE PLEASE do not buy this video. It is a waste of your time and the terrible people behind it (the fool in black face), do not deserve a penny of your money.

A great gift idea...for someone you never want to speak to again.

[virus-eel · 1/10 · 25 June 2008]

I wish that IMDb would give me the option of negative ratings, because Zombies Gone Wild would earn a -20 out of 10. I should have known by the tag line on the front of the box that this was going to be total suck fest. "They wanted to score...they didn't expect to get eaten."

That's the best line they could think of, I guess, to get people to buy this piece of excrement (my friend bought it at a dollar store for 2 bucks, but fear not, she was able to sell it for three).

Why not something like: "They ate her out..then she ate them!" or "They wanted to get laid...but they were laid to rest!" Both of those lines are corny as hell, but they're comedic genius compared to anything found in Zombies Gone Wild.

And those guys on list who actually gave a good rating to this abomination, I'm convinced they're either being sarcastic or they are the guys who actually made the movie trying to create the illusion that anyone with any taste could find anything entertaining about this steaming pile of suck.

Here's my spoiler: There are no true zombies, and nothing goes wild. No plot, no effects, no cinematography, no jokes, no real acting, the "road trip" is shot on 1 square mile of land where they pass the same house multiple times. I'm convinced the whole thing cost about thirty bucks to make, and in a perfect world, we would actually be paid to watch crap like this.

Fantastic movie

[thehybrid · 9/10 · 23 February 2008]

From the cheesy tag-line to the great but low budget acting, this film has everything anyone wants in a movie - in depth characters that develop well over time; elements of horror; and a thorough, though-out script.

If anyone were to rate this on a scale of 1 to perfect, it would be 11. I believe however it is suited for a specific audience, as a lot of the reviews here are negative - I am of the opinion that without such a good understanding of filmography that I have, anyone can just dismiss this gem.

The movie starts off well, with well placed sound effects and a beautiful cinematic score. The development of the story is full of twists and, without spoiling anything, the end is groundbreaking in terms of film history.

I highly recommend everyone of sufficient film appreciation to watch this, I guarantee you will enjoy it

This is NOT a movie.

[jrosekonungrinn · 1/10 · 9 January 2011]

THIS IS NOT A MOVIE. DO NOT WATCH IT.

It's too bad the lowest rating here is 1. This thing would be in the negative. Far in the negative.

It is not even a movie. Three idiots went out with a personal video camera. Probably a 12 year old video camera, as any hand-held camera made today takes video and sound several hundred times better than this thing. There are no actors, these people were either friends or randomly pulled off the street. There are no real zombies, and nothing ever happens. The morons in the film did nothing but tell unfunny poop jokes. How in the frickin' hell does something like this get on a DVD, aside from these idiots burning dics on their own computers? I do not know. I really don't. Maybe one of them was a bored rich kid. If so, they should have bought some film making equipment.

I love horror movies. I love bad horror movies. I'll watch piles of B movies that no one else would touch, and some of them I like. I love zombie movies and pick up nearly anything that says "zombie" to give it a shot, thus I ended up with this thing. After 15 minutes or so I gave up and watched the rest on Fast Forward, hoping to see something interesting. There was nothing. I desperately wanted that half hour of my life back.

Another reviewer compared the quality to a wedding video. With cameras today, a wedding video would be much more watchable. Another reviewer said the director's trailer should be toilet-papered. I'm pretty sure there was no director. A 7th grade film project *I* shot with neighborhood kids enacting Lord of the Flies is more watchable than this.

SAVE YOURSELF. It's too late for me, but you can still run from this home video grade school project pretending to be a movie.

Could we do something about the smell?

[nogodnomasters · 1/10 · 27 July 2017]

Three socially inept guys go on a road trip in hopes of a sexual encounter.

The film uses excessive juvenile humor with fart, feces, and barf gags. The unorthodox ending was welcomed. Zombies come in at the end of the film. It was tough to watch.

Guide: F-word. No sex. One see-thru top scene.

Awesome

[edmo2001 · 2/10 · 19 February 2008]

I liked this movie… it started out a little slow, but picked up some as it went along. It had some subtle humor tangled in with fart jokes. I think Zombies Gone Wild had something to do with society, and looking past people's differences to accept others for who they are. One day I'm sure it will be recognized as a masterpiece of cult cinema… (laugh) who am I kidding the movie was terrible, but I tend to compare everything to another movie called "Space Zombie Bingo" I've never found a movie worse than that one… so by comparison Zombies Gone Wild was amazing! A must see for the whole family... if you're a family of undead who have come from hell to walk the earth once again.

Deadite, Irritable Bowels, Bright Light, and Poor Sound

[leopard4 · 2/10 · 17 September 2009]

Video: As the cinematographic quality of this film was in such disarray, I had a bit of trouble trying to form a grasp as to what was happening to the characters. Not only was the camera shaky, but the lighting was horrid: the actors continually looked as though they were under harsh fluorescent bulbs. Sadly, no amount of make-up was able to repair the washed-out visage which was omnipresent in the film.

Audio: Unfortunately, the extremely poor video quality was not where the atrocities to film were able to end with this particular piece. The greater weakness of this film was present in its sound quality. As I have a difficult time hearing already, I typically turn on subtitles for films; as this was not an option, I was attempting to distinguish one character's garble from the next. Not only did several of the actors have similar voices, but they also used typical film enunciation (i.e. realistic speaking rather than stage speaking). I admire this normally, but in a film where the sound quality is so overpowered by jukebox music and ambient background jumble.

Acting/Characterization: Simply put, this film was a long string of disgusting stereotypes after one another. Though this did lead to a consistency in characterization, it also led to a boring viewing (i.e. we may as well have been viewing a two-dimensional painting rather than a living film). The film seemed to be carried entirely by the three main actors, one other gentleman (Juan Flabio), and an actress who played a deaf zombie/deadite. I, thus, found it quite strange to recall the sword-wielding female that graced the cover with her presence. In short, the actors were weak.

Zombies: I feel that these "zombies" were more akin to Deadites rather than their namesake. These were sentient monsters that were feasting upon flesh when relinquishing their own humanity at nightfall. In some regards, they were relatives of vampires as they charismatically drew their pray toward them during the day with the intent of feasting upon them at night.

Title: I don't want to sound like THAT guy, but I am going to: why did they title this film "Zombies Gone Wild?" I saw more breasts in "Zombie Nation" (one of the few films which I rank lower than this one). I know that breasts should not draw one toward a film, but with a suggestive name as such, one would expect to be entertained with them. For instance, I would have been thrilled with ONE scene taking place in a pub/bar/club wherein the zombie-girls remove their tops in order to receive Mardi-Gras beads from their potential meals. What would have been even more humorous: zombie-boys giving necklaces of human bones to zombie-girls in order to have them remove their tops (or a human-boy's flesh).

Overall: It's not the worst film that I have ever seen, but it's certainly not the best. If you are willing to listen carefully, you will find a slight bit of joy in shenanigans (including an ironic large African-American zombie dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan); if not, however, do not utilize your time upon this film. It's your turn to take this one to the movies.