Zombie Film Review:

The Revenant …

Year: 2011

Director: Kerry Prior

Tagline: The only thing worse than having your best friend die, is having him come back…

Review:

I approach this film with a feeling of trepidation, as it is described as hilarious and gory in the same blurb on the cover and after the thoughts of Dead & Breakfast and Zombie Honeymoon come flooding back, the terror begins to seep into me… But to be honest once it starts to roll, then it does actually begin to impress and interest… Perhaps not your traditional fare and some may argue not really ‘zombie' for zombie purists, but the main melon(s) are undead and rot to shit, so, in the words of Celebrity Death Match, we'll allow it.

Zombie Quality:****

This is a strange portrayal of the living dead, not your usual fare, as the main character is the zombie and therefore it does take it to a whole new level… The make up artists could go to town on some seriously high quality effects, although they do come and go depending on how rotten the duo are…

Zombie Behaviour: *

Walking, talking and knowing of his own death, means the Revenant is not your traditional Romero style brain-muncher, but not a zombie… He drinks blood and sleeps during the day, but not a vampire… He's a Revenant… and then the buddies both act the same and there are no shamblers to be seen… Then when more appear towards the end of the movie it all goes a bit Return of the Living Dead as Far as Zombie Killing is concerned....

Zombie Threat: **

Not amazing, unless you happen to be a gang banger who tries to mug the Revenant, in which case you are shit out of luck… and then as the film develops into vigilante Kick Ass territory it is anyone that the undead buddies think are evil or that they know…

Gore Content: **

There is some gross stuff in this movie, like the language and the puking, the puking is cool and grim, but not really enough based humour here to mean it gets more than 2 stars… There are lots of gunshots and numerous blood sprays, but nothing really to make the skin crawl or reach for the sick bag…

Overall Quality: ***

Should this be in these reviews or should it be left alone and be ignored by us??? I am not quite sure, but if Deadheads is here then The Revenant should be too… In my opinion this is better than Deadheads a lot funnier and lot more relevant… Not set in the zombie apocalypse, but still good… The film switches from buddy movie, to vigilante buddy movie, to emotive and although it switches genres quite often, it does avoid being horror…