Right, well as I stumbled upon the 2018 Singaporean zombie movie "Zombiepura", of course I had to watch it. No doubt about it, as it was a combination of two of my favorite things; Asian cinema and zombie genre.
Sure, I hadn't heard about "Zombiepura" from writer and director Jacen Tan, prior to sitting donw to watch it. But I figured I would give the movie a fair chance regardless, so of course I opted to watch it.
And while I did manage to get through all 85 minutes of the movie, I have to say that I wasn't particularly entertained, much less impressed with what transpired on the screen. Not only was the script a very bland and generic script, even for a zombie movie. But I will say that the movie actually felt rather redundant and pointless. The script just didn't offer anything that hadn't already been done or seen in other zombie movies, and the whole storyline was just flaccid.
I haven't watched a whole lot of Singaporean movies, so I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. However, I must admit that I didn't care one ounce about the characters or whatever fate befell them. In fact, I couldn't even give you the name of a single character in the movie just as the end credits started to roll, the whole character gallery was that generic and bland.
Visually then "Zombiepura" was adequate. You're not in for a grand spectacle of special effects or zombie make-up. In fact, it was pretty low-key zombie special effects, well, make-up actually if you look at it. But it worked well enough given the whole concept and feel of the movie.
I do like zombie things, but not everything in the genre is pure gold, and "Zombiepura" was far from being golden.
My rating of "Zombiepura" lands on a generous two out of ten stars. At least director Jacen Tan took an attempt at the zombie genre here.