Buck Wild

"Buck Wild" is not really amongst the better of zombie movies that I have seen. With that said, then it should also be said that there are far worse zombie movies out there on the market. And for a production of this caliber, then "Buck Wild" actually fared adequately, however, the movie just failed to be outstanding.

Storywise, then "Buck Wild" doesn't really offer anything overly new to the zombie genre, nor does it really deliver fully on the various aspects that director Tyler Glodt were attempting to accomplish with this movie.

The zombies were adequate, although don't expect shambling decaying corpses here, as it is a batch of freshly reanimated corpses that are found here throughout the movie. Whatever meager effects that were used in the movie were adequate as well, though the movie really didn't have that much blood and gore.

There are some attempts at comedy throughout the movie, but none that really managed to punch through as the ones in "Shaun of the Dead".

Being a zombie aficionado, of course I have to give just about anything even remotely zombiesque a chance; and of course not everything is going to be a masterpiece.

"Buck Wild" is enjoyable in itself for what it is, just don't set yourself up for something grand.

Regardless of the naysayers about the movie it is awesome! Jarrod Pistilli was hilarious as well as Tyler Glodt! We have watched the movie repeatedly, so much that our kids say the word before it shows the scene. My four year old son gets a kick out of the beginning. It is the best zombie movie I have seen. It doesn't have to be all about the zombies to be a good movie. I am a very avid movie watcher and there were some movies full of zombies from the beginning and end up with the same thing. This is a little bit of a sudden twist. I have to be the first to know what kind of a movie it is to let my kiddos watch it with us. A few curses but nothing too crazy. Watch the movie and find out more! I love it and so does my family.

Knowing nothing of BuckWild, I was left guessing in the first 10 minutes as to it being a student film or a spoof. Firstly due to the try hard accent of Jarrod Pistilli; a down town "New Yawker" hardman crossed with Tackleberry from Police Academy type, who supplements his Soprano accent by referring to everyone as 'boss'. Such was my distraction that I was continually thrown outside of the film. Suitably frustrated, I started looking up IMDb to see what the deal was.

Secondly and unfortunately not being a bullet to the head, the lingering, painful, un- comic like labouring of the main 'badass' local gang leader as he likes to be referred to but is otherwise as delightfully English as a cup of tea, could be a splendidly abstract contrast to the other small town America characters and therefore improve the films comic sensibilities. However, both inadequately portrayed characters just serve to further underpin this peripheral comedy zombie flick.

Bashing over; Joe Stevens ( Gilbert Grape etc) plays a typical booze addled aggressive hick land owner who is only slightly upset by the generous and ever compromising affections his daughter gives to any arriving fresh meat. Despite the limitations of such a backwards character, Joe's delivery offers respite and a safe house to film viewers from the continual onslaught of bad acting. Against the low production values, the film steps it up with confident editing, comic book transitions and timely cuts from graphic violence and lengthy zombie close ups, (I imagine as a result of a limited budget and to keep its humorous momentum).

The story does not need explanation as it doesn't break the "run its a zombie run" mould and can be confidently summed up as a survivor tale with guns, over\undersexed teenagers, hash brownies and the ubiquitous "car hitting something on a darkened road scene" - which to the seemingly vision impaired central characters, happens no less than 3 times in this movie.

As a B horror zombie comedy (aren't they all?) a blend of its inadequacies should charm enough to lift it out of the pile. I can say, having survived this until the end ;the goofy dialogue, semi fresh takes and comic playfulness (some unintended) eventually starts working, just. In particular, the scene with a doped up zombie giving relationship advice is rather funny. Yes, a "doped up Zombie giving relationship advice" - enough said.

See it with your pals

The comrades Craig Thompson (Matthew Albrecht), Jerry (Jarrod Pistilli), Lance (Isaac Harrison) and Tom Alexander (Dru Lockwood) travel to the Buck Wild Farm in Texas to spend vacation hunting deer. Soon they discover that the owner Clyde (Joe Stevens) was bitten by a Chupacabra and has infected his slut daughter Candy (Meg Cionni) and neighbors that now are zombies. Will they survive?

"Buck Wild" is a lame and unfunny comedy of horror. The screenplay (or the edition) is disconnected and senseless, and in the beginning, Clyde sees his daughter shagging with her boyfriend on the garden and he throws his pipe wrench on the head of the man. Then he is bitten by the Chupacabra and the scene is entirely forgotten. The film is so bad that after 96 minutes running time, there is no scene that makes laugh. My vote is two.

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4 of 10. As slow as zombies are, this film is slower. It takes a long time for the story to kick in. At the beginning, everything seems artificial, concocted. If you skip the first 5-10 minutes, or maybe just watch the prelude than skip to the part with the guy spitting, the film as a whole might be worth a curiosity watch.

It tries to be a zombie gross-out comedy, but it generally ends up spanking itself. If you can stand the thought of watching the equivalent of a made-for-TV goofy, non-scary, simply gross zombie film, you'll probably still end up biting your arm off if stuck in a theater with this. Zombie fans can safely wait for the TV release and may simply want to avoid in order to stay zombie fans.