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Zombie Hood (2013) is a English movie. Steve Best has directed this movie. Edward Nudd,Jade Blocksidge,Tom Murton,Richard Lee O'Donnell are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2013. Zombie Hood (2013) is considered one of the best Horror movie in India and around the world.
The initial infection begins after the virus spreads through a nightclub and is quickly transmitted throughout the city. After a night of disturbances across the whole of the United Kingdom, the police and emergency services lose control of the situation, with hospitals overrun and the dead coming back to life to attack and devour the living. With the cities now the domain of the undead, the survivors flee the built up areas and take refuge in the countryside and small villages. Zombie Hood follows the story of a small group of survivors who are thrown together in the outskirts of Nottingham. Like Robin Hood and his merry men, the rag tag band look to Sherwood Forest for sanctuary, but soon find out that even the countryside isn't a safe haven. With food and supplies in short demand, the group find themselves arguing over their plans for survival, which isn't helped by Sam, a wayward teenager with a confused and dangerous personality. Dermott, a police officer, attempts to take ...
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Zombie Hood (2013) Reviews
'Almost' a good amateur zombie film
I wanted this to be a great local film. So maybe my review is going to be based more on disappointment than neutral reflection. I really wanted this to be a film which demonstrated that a low budget film made by amateurs who just wanted to make a film for the fun and experience of it could compete with the pro's. In some respects the illusion of pro was achieved. The camera work is generally good, the excellent make up and special effects is on a par with the big boys, and considering the amateur status their is some generally believable acting. There are also some good individual scenes, but herein lies the problem. The film feels like a series of individual scenes with just a loose coherence of plot to hold it together. There are so many random death scenes happening outside the core characters that they lose their identity within the film. The characters are diluted, and as they seem to have no set desires or goals outside of survival you have no affinity or connection with them. To use a rather poor metaphor if I may. A good film has a spine of a plot with the characters running along it and the skin and muscle are the scenes that put flesh of story on the film. Zombie Hood feels more of an exoskeleton of plot with all the guts and scenes thrown in to make a film. So if you are a Zombie aficionado then watch zombie hood, if you live in the East Mids where it was made then watch zombie hood as for both reasons you will get something from this film. I applaud the people who made this film, I really do, I just wanted it to be ....more?
A decent zombie flick on a low budget
Whilst there is such a high standard now for B movie films this does not try to be anything other than what it is. A film where the undead come back to life and eat people. The effects are very good considering, although over emphasised on the odd occasion, this doesn't detract from the film - I would say storyline, but there's obviously not much of one. The location is perfect, Nottingham and surrounding areas carry this film brilliantly... The urban chaos, the nice areas, the poor areas and of course the wooded areas. From what I understand the film was done on DSLR's which for an avid DSLR user is encouraging for myself. I'd hope to think that people watching this be inspired and encouraged to grab their DSLR, and have a bash themselves. The only negative I took away from the film was the sound was not always clear, by that I mean it didn't pick up the voices as good as it should have in certain scenes.
Starts Off Rather Slow but Recovers a Bit Afterward
This film essentially begins at the very start of a zombie apocalypse somewhere in Great Britain with a virus that is very quick-acting and initially results in extremely fast zombies. And because of these two factors the epidemic spreads extremely quickly and catches all of the police and military completely off-guard. But having said that, there are some survivors who are able to adapt to the situation and for them the task at hand is to escape in order to live another day. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that at first the characters were not well identified and it is possible that the director (Steve Best) used them to illustrate the severity of of the overall situation. This techinique, however, caused the movie to seem rather slow and redundant. Fortunately, as the film progressed certain characters became better known and developed with one small group in particular being showcased. And it's at this point that the film becomes a bit more interesting. That being said, however, this was clearly a low-budget production and for that reason it suffers somewhat accordingly. Be that as it may, while not a good zombie movie by any means, it wasn't all that bad either and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.