Solemplex
To me, this movie is perfection.
Softwing
Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
Frances Chung
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Anoushka Slater
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
morrison-dylan-fan
Despite finding him good value on chat/panel shows,I have never had a "propah" Danny Dyer experience,due to almost all of his films looking.."dire." With October coming up,I decided to do a thread on IMDb's Horror board for Comedy Horror recs.Catching me by surprise,a fellow IMDber told me that they had seen a Dyer Horror Comedy that was actually good! Finding the movie at a local DVD shop for £1,I got set to go to Danny Dyer's doghouse.The plot:Wanting to escape their women troubles,mates Vince,Neil,Mikey,Graham,Patrick and Banksy decide to run off on a "lads weekend" to a village packed with pubs,and where women outnumber the men 4:1. Hiring a mini van,the guys travel to the town. Running to the pubs,the guys are shocked to find no staff behind the pub,and no girls in sight. Looking round the empty village,the guys find all the men laying on the floors dead. As they start to fear that their night out plans are over,a women appears,who turns out to be a murdering,man eating zombie.View on the film:Going for a night out with the lads to zombie town,the screenplay by Dan Schaffer makes the dialogue a perfect fit for the blokes,with their blue coloured humour capturing the banter of the guys,even as they are trying to outrun killer zombies. Travelling to the village in a jolly mood,Schaffer turns the jokes down to give the title an unexpected dark Horror side,spilling from some of the main characters meeting their dogs dinner,as Schaffer gradually builds the bond between the friends,with the zom-women getting their hands on the immaturity of the boys.Taking on any man or zombie that challenges him ,Stephen Graham gives the movie a working class grit as Vince,as Graham smoothly hits Comedy pot-shots with Noel Clarke's wonderfully nervous Mikey,whilst making sure Vince hits the zombies with a ruthless punch for survival. Unknowingly going on the pull for a zombie girl,Danny Dyer gives a far better than ever expected performance (nice one guv!) as Neil,thanks to Dyer getting Neil to show concern for his pals,and also waking up Neil with wide-eyed fear,as the lads start to fear that they are going to meet their end in the doghouse.
Lugodoc
It carefully follows all the rules for this class of horror movie and it's scary, gory and it made me laugh out loud a lot, hence the score. Some people have criticised the ending because the men "haven't learned anything", but they have. After a brief moment of control they realise that they don't even care about that any more, they just want to get away from the crazy women. And most lads' nights end with someone unable to walk being pushed by the rest in a supermarket trolly.I think its nearly as good as Shaun Of The Dead, but whereas that film was ultimately feel-good this one is harsher, misogynistic and leaves a bitter after-taste, which makes it more interesting. Lads will love it. Feminists will hate it. Do not watch it with your other half.P.S. Danny Dyer's best film. Make of that what you will.
Adam Podmore
Friday night in with my girl, zombie movies and popcorn a real gore fest.I thought this film had great casting, now I am not a Danny Dyer fan or Noel Clarke but they did a great job in this film and the chemistry between them and Stephen Graham (first class Brit Actor) was spot on. Its easy watching, but gets a bit silly in the middle of the film, for me that took some of the enjoyment away.Plenty of gore.I don't really know what else to say, I found the concept strange but hey each to their own and it worked.
Mike H
I don't even know where to start with this.We're introduced to our cast of characters in scenarios where it is firmly established that men (even gay men, provided they're not effeminate) are good, simple creatures, with good, simple drives, and women (and gay men who are effeminate) are nasty, hormonal, screeching control-freaks who just want to spoil the lives of good, simple men.And... That's pretty much it for the entire film. Seriously. That's the entire film, in a nutshell.Of course, it tours through pretty much every gender cliché you've ever been offended or disappointed by, and it also contains Danny Dyer. And let's face it, casting directors who cast Danny Dyer need to be shot. Because he's crap. And this film is no exception to that rule: He can out-Cockney you, he can out-bloke you, but he really can't out-act you, he is Danny "Dire" Dyer.Sadly, he's not even the worst actor in the film. The only reason that I scored this a 2 out of 10 instead of a 1 is that I have a bit of a thing about Nicola Jane Reading, who played the busty zombie-witch.