Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to an all new Reaction & Review. Tonight, guys, I'm gonna be covering a romantic horror comedy from 2015. That movie is "Night Of The Living Deb". God, that title really fucking sucks...
Yeah, guys, in case you somehow don't catch the reference, this movie's title is suppose to be playing off of George A. Romero's famous zombie flick, "Night Of The Living Dead". And I still hate having to repeat this film's title, it just *really* sucks. But I'm gonna try to look past that and focus on the content of tonight's movie.
Now, similar to the title, this movie also features zombies, and it's also a romantic horror comedy. And I don't really know if that's gonna be a good thing or not. Because as much as I enjoy horror comedies, the very fact that they included it as a "romantic" horror comedy kinda brings this down slightly. Because in you case you're not aware, I hate romantic comedies. And considering that I already reviewed a romantic comedy a couple of weeks ago, AKA "Chokeslam", which also really sucked, I'm already kinda soured by this thing a little bit.
But hey, you know what? Maybe this film will actually still be really funny, even if it is partly a romantic comedy. I don't know if it will be, but there is a chance that this movie could still surprise me in a way. But the only way I'm gonna know if this thing is any good at all is if I shut up and I push play, and I'm gonna do that right now. So, without further ado, it's time to kick back, relax, and check out "Night Of The Living Deb".
9 minutes later
Guys, I know this is early for me to be saying this, but the dialogue in this movie is just awful. Like, none of it sounds natural in the slightest and I'm not totally sure if it's gonna get better or not. I hope it does, because, otherwise, I'm probably gonna have to get use to this horrible dialogue for the next hour and 14 minutes.
12 minutes later
Wow, guys, we had a somewhat creative kill that was ruined by our two main characters awful banter. So, I guess I'll ask this now, even though the film is still pretty early. When does this shit get funny? I really want to know, guys, because, so far, none of the humor has landed as of yet, and I'm just really curious as to when it will actually start to get funny?
12 minutes later
Jesus Christ...guys, I didn't think this was even possible, but the dialogue is getting worse! I'm hating every single word that is uttered out of our main characters mouths because they've been arguing for almost the first half of the entire movie and I'm getting sick of it! I hope, by the end, that they die a horrible, painful death. And if I don't get that, I'm not gonna be very happy. Just saying.
20 minutes later
So, guys, I'm still waiting for this movie to do something that's actually funny. I would like to find one joke in this movie that's gonna crack a smile out of me. I'm not asking for it to be make me laugh, because at this point, that ship has long since set sailed. I just want to find one joke here that's gonna at least make me smile. Is that asking for too much at this point? I fear it is, but I'm hoping, out of sheer morbid curiosity, that I'm wrong.
The Review
Well, guys, that was "Night Of The Living Deb". God, fuck off...holy shit. So, guys, I got bad news and I got worse news. Bad news is that I still didn't get a single laugh, nor did it make me smile in any way. Worse news, our main characters both live at the end of this. And the ending itself is borderline retarded, which is all the more reason for me to hate this movie even more.
So, since on this subject already, let's actually start off with the writing. First of all, as the movie was going on, at one point, I decided to check the back of the DVD case to see how many fucking chimps wrote this stupid thing. And the answer to that is just one person. That person's name is Andy Selsor. I don't know if Andy is a boy or a girl, I'm going to assume it's the former. If it is, then I would like to say a few words to this gentlemen. You, sir, cannot write for shit. What made you think that any of this was suppose to be funny? If you think that making these characters unlikable from the word go was a good idea, and that you had our titled character be one of the most annoying main characters ever committed to film, then you, sir, should probably not write anymore. Also, having Deb spewing references to other films like "Rush Hour" and "Meet Joe Black" for no real reason, and then announcing what they're from, is Friedberg and Seltzer's shtick. As much as their parody films are garbage, at least they can probably do it marginally better than how you did it, asshole. So you can take your shitty fucking script and use it to wipe your ass with! At least that would be more interesting than the garbage that you had written for this god awful movie. Holy shit...
Wow...I've never said that kind of thing about a writer before, but hey, at least that made me feel a little better now. So, now that I'm done venting about the writer themselves, let's actually talk more about it, shall we? As you can probably surmise, the writing in this movie is shit. The dialogue itself is easily the worst thing about this movie. Most of it comes from our two main characters, Deb and Ryan. Both of them are easily the most annoying characters ever written for any movie in a long time. Deb, more so than Ryan, but still. And what makes them annoying is that for, the first half or so, these two are just fucking bickering and arguing with each other as they're trying to get away from the zombies, and they don't know when to shut the fuck up because that's what they mostly fucking do for the first half hour of the movie! And so you might be thinking, well, it gets better, right? No, it doesn't.
Every other characters dialogue is almost just as bad as our main characters dialogue. None of them have any real depth to them, and their personalities are all one noted, too. Deb is, well, obviously annoying as shit. She's suppose to be a TV reporter and also a camerawoman for a TV news station, though you don't get any of that from her until near the end of the movie. Ryan, her supposed love interest, is about as boring as they come. It's been stated by him that he doesn't want to work for his father's company, which probably is for the best considering that his father's company is mostly responsible for starting this whole zombie plague to begin with. Basically, they were experimenting some kind of shit with the city's water, which apparently turned most of the population of Portland, Maine into zombies. And also, Ryan's father is in good tidings with the governor there, too, since they get the funding from him to do this experiment. So really, it's just a classic case of political corruption.
So we got a motivation as to why this has happened. It's a really stupid motivation, but at least it's something to go on. But then comes the ending. See, right before Deb bites Ryan sometime after she gets bitten by a zombie, a medical team rushes in after stunning some zombies and puts band-aid over her bitten shoulder. They then tell our "likable" characters that you don't turn when you get bitten by a zombie. Which is why we later see Ryan's Dad coming in, along with his adopted brother. And they reiterate the same dialogue that they don't get infected from a bite by zombies. How the fuck that makes any sense doesn't really get explained, since they end up bombing Portland anyways, which ends the movie. So my question is how do you get turned into a zombie in this film? Is it through the same methods that I brought up earlier about the city's water? I'm only asking because they bring this info up right out of nowhere towards the end, and it just seems like an incredibly half-assed way to wraps things up and give our characters a happy ending that they don't fucking deserve.
So yeah, guys writing in this movie is complete and utter shit. In terms of a horror comedy, it fails at being at funny. And as it being a romantic comedy, it fails even harder when your main characters have all the chemistry of a fucking bus fire. So yeah, writing here is an absolute disaster. The acting is also equally shit with the one lone exception being Ray Wise. For those of you who don't know, Ray Wise plays Ryan's father in this film, and he is great. He's one of those actors where you could give him almost any kind of script and he'll turn it into solid gold. I didn't think he would be able to do it here, considering the horrendous script and all, but somehow, he actually was able to polish his own turds just enough to where, again, he can make it look like solid gold. So yeah, Ray Wise is awesome here. Everyone else...is not. All of them sucked royal balls and they just phoned it in for that quick paycheck. No one here tried, which I guess, considering the script they were given, they could only do so much with it. So, outside of Ray Wise, the acting here is complete shit.
Special effects are also shit. Now I totally understand that this movie was filmed on a rather low budget. The low budget being $106,000. So we're not shooting for the fucking stars here. However, most of the effects in this movie would rival any movie that was made by the Sy-Fy Channel. And that's obviously not a compliment, considering a majority of their films have shitty special effects. The blood effects aren't impressive, the gore is just as bad, and the CG is also dogshit, too. So yeah, there's nothing about the special effects that I could say is even worth watching for. Oh, and also, for a movie that involves zombies, most of the zombified people don't really look like zombies to begin with. Which is why the makeup effects are fucking horrible, since there's barely any to begin with. Again, I'm not asking for much from a low budget film, but they could've at least made the zombies look a little bit believable. However, they couldn't even do that much. So, again, the special effects here are just shit.
Camerawork here is fine. Lighting is also fine. The sound-mixing is actually pretty good. And the score here is just unmemorable to say the least. So, the technical work here is just, oh, average at best.
Now with all that said, guys, when it comes down to it, can I recommend "Night Of The Living Deb"? Fuck no! This movie is a massive fucking turd! As I already said, it sucks as a horror comedy, and it's even worse as a romantic comedy. But then again, I hate romantic comedies to begin with, so this movie was already starting off very poorly and went straight down the tubes the moment that it started. There is no way in hell I can recommend this film to anybody. It is easily one of the worst horror comedies I've ever seen in a good long while. Not sure if it's *the* worst, though, I'd have to go back and check to see if I covered any other horror comedies that were worse than this thing. I doubt it, considering how horrendous this film was. And the fact that I paid $10 for this garbage makes me almost physically ill. So much so that I need to watch something better. Something like an actual good horror comedy. And you know what? I still have "Dead & Breakfast" on my DVD shelf. I love that film to pieces, so I'm gonna go and rewatch that movie again right now just so I can be reminded of something good at this point. And also, I probably should get around to finding a copy of "Night Of The Living Dead" on DVD seeing as how this movie wanted to slander it's name and all.
Anyway, guys, with that, we come to the close of another Reaction & Review. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, take care, and I will see you all later. Peace.
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