I recently watched a movie called Dance of the Dead. It was hilarious.
This movie was probably the one of the best low budget zombie movies I have ever seen, if not the best, and I have watched a lot of zombie movies. It incorporated so many things I love in a movie, and it did them all extremely well, especially with such a low budget.
It is a typical zombie movie, where some phenomenon makes the dead rise from their graves, on the endless quest for the living brains...and limbs...and organs. Pretty much people in general. As the zombies wreak havoc on a small town, it is up to a group of dateless prom goers to bring the news their fellow classmates before it is too late.
The brilliance of this movie is that it is almost like a typical teen movie with the same humor and plot, but while the teens are trying to get dates and worry about how they will look for prom (You know, the important teen issues) zombies are trying to eat everyone. It also incorporates the typical zombie movie, with the blood and over the top gore of people getting eaten and zombies getting wrecked in awesome fashion. There are also some very startling parts in this movies, which just adds to the awesome of this movie. With the combination of all these elements, it makes it into a perfect horror comedy, with enough laughs to counter the scares.
This movie targeted every part of the brain. It had scary moments where your reptilian brain kicked in, but then it had other parts where your neocortex and limbic brain did its fair share of work. It worked all three parts to a perfect level, making it one of the best zombie movies I have seen.
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