Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies (2017) Reviews

• For fans of camp horror and the zombie genre

  guthriepaul-363832018-04-27

  I enjoyed this movie. It is Comedy-Horror... but it's more serious and action oriented than I expected. Fans of Sharknado take note - it should be right up your alley!

• A politically correct film about the plight of Undead-Americans.

  johnanthonymazzei2018-03-05

  Some good, some bad, one to many movie cliches and too much political correctness. Best lines in the movie belong to the mayor when he invoked the power of rock and roll then used a guitar to dispatch several zombies. As well as the "Happier than Richard Simmons watching Broke-back Mountain" line. Naming the Japanese scientist Dr. Fukushima was a nice touch. The story line seemed to have been pulled out of a horror movie recycling bin. I.E. We need to get to the hospital but, the car won't start. Or how every other car in town was out of or low on gas. How about Uncle Ed's top secret recipe that everyone else wants ? If you are allowed to make another movie please do some research and hire some technical experts or at least someone that has been to a fair / carnival. Cars, trucks and motorcycles don't drive into the fairground or park next to the band stand. Lesbians don't usually have semi-naked make out sessions in the food court. Please hire someone that knows guns need to be reloaded. Is there a quota system in hollywood these days ? 5 romantic relationships are featured in this move. 3 are interracial, 1 straight and one lesbian. The heterosexuals are under-represented and the gays are totally left out. However, you did manage to include organically grown food, vegans and multiple references to peanut allergies.

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• Sub-par...even for a zombie comedy movie.

  terrencepatrix2018-03-10

  A very low budget zombie/comedy movie set in the south with a simple plot. Due to a invasive species of weed they've been dropping an experimental pesticide to stop it's growth and kill it basically contaminating everything related to it. We don't see any of this really, it's told to us with scrolling dialogue in the opening of the film and there's some interaction with the pilot whose been hired to spray it from his plane. Then through various means people die, become infected, and come back as zombies. Pretty standard contamination zombie plot. That's all fine and well, you expect it to be goofy. The problem here is the bad special effects and the acting, it's just really bad, especially the acting. I don't expect Shakespeare or anything but it was just especially bad and the dialogue fell completely flat. Also it just flat out wasn't funny. So if the zombie effects suck, the acting sucks, and the comedic elements suck...you're not left with much of a movie. If you're desperate for a zombie movie I guess this works. I don't recommend it.

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• Didn't grow on me at all

  TheLittleSongbird2018-08-09

  The low rating and not so good reviews were not a good sign, and if other recent low-budget viewings were anything to go by was worried that it would be one of those that bad or worse films. But there was the concept, while a very weird one it was oddly intriguing, though knowing what to expect was not difficult. So watched 'Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies' anyway as part of one of my film and television quests (often completest). Have seen worse films as part of my recent modest at best/low budget film quest definitely, but that is saying little. 'Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies' is still a terrible film in nearly every way. It is also one of those films that doesn't intrigue at all, offers very little new and is so implausible and ridiculous. The concept was not a derivative one as such, but the execution is and is also too conventional, extremely dull and bland, often very hard to take at face value even with what it was going for (understand the turning-brain-off-at-door thing but the film went too far the other way) and seemed resistant to take any risks. Two points in its favour is some atmosphere in the lighting and that the beginning somewhat showed a promise in providing some unsettlement and fun. Both are too far and between, any atmospheric lighting is wasted by most of it being drab, sloppy at best effects, a too compact setting, haphazard editing and some photography that induces nausea. Meanwhile the film goes down south very quickly and doesn't recover. Direction is at best pedestrian and this does affect the pacing and the direction of the actors. The acting is at best risible with no exceptions, they are all as bad as each other so picking out a dishonourable mention is hard, and the character interaction is very bland and sometimes random. From start to finish, 'Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies' badly lacks tension or suspense, which immediately dilutes the atmosphere. Nothing scares and it even for a horror with comic elements goes well overboard on the witless and juvenile humour and nothing scary or creative at all, which is why there is so much predictability. Everything is easily foreseeable long before it happens and the zombies are more goofy than creepy. The script never sounds natural and the cheese and childish factor is sky high and the interest factor low as can be. The story is ruined by being paper thin, useless padding and a very erratic pace, sometimes rushed, others draggy. As with some recent viewings, it did feel too much like a short film stretched out to feature length with nowhere near enough content to fill it. A lot of it doesn't make sense either and is intelligence insultingly ridiculous. The characters are never interesting, even with few attempts to which are so flimsily developed that it is difficult to care for any of them, and frustrate with the way they behave. So many stupid and illogical character behaviours here matched by the far-fetched ending. In conclusion, a mess. 2/10 Bethany Cox

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• Terrible

  panther_husky2018-03-11

  Of course when you have a low budget film, don't expect an extraordinary movie. There are films where the director and writer produce a wonderful story without any effects and good acting. But this is just terrible. The acting needs lots of improving as they didn't seem to show any talent. In some parts you could see that it was all a joke to them. At times it made you cringe and look away from the TV, not because of the blood and gore (if you want to call it that) but because of the lines actors used: childish, nonsense and practically pathetic. I would be too embarrassed to flirt this film to anyone and to say how good it is would just be an extreme joke. Credit for trying but good films can be written and directed without trying to hard especially if the budget isn't there.

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