Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Three scouts, on the eve of their last camp-out, discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak.
Director:
Christopher LandonWriters:
Carrie Lee Wilson (screenplay) (as Carrie Evans) , Emi Mochizuki (screenplay),Stars:
Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan |Storyline
Three scouts, on the eve of their last camp-out, discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak.
Teenagers Ben (Tye Sheridan) and Carter (Logan Miller), on the other hand, have been scouts for almost as long as they can remember, but have serious reservations about continuing, concerned that it will kill their chances with the fairer sex. However, when a zombie outbreak occurs while they are on a camp-out with pal Augie (Joey Morgan), the lads get a chance to put into practise everything they have learnt while scouting, and realise that doing what they enjoy most is more important than how others perceive them.
Scout's Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse is undeniably crass: there's no meta, post-modernistic, self-referential irony involved (whatever that means)—just lots of gags about bums, tits and willies, which, as far as I'm concerned, equals a good time. This film managed to do what so many other horror comedies have failed to do—make me snort out loud with laughter more than once—and for that reason alone I hold it in high regard, but it also delivers those other two important ingredients of the genre: hot women and outrageous splatter.
Amongst the babes on hand are Halston Sage and Niki Koss as sexy high school pals Kendall and Chloe (the latter going beyond the call of duty for a scene where she receives oral pleasure from a zombie), a top heavy female cop turned zombie (actress unknown) who provides one of the funniest moments when her shirt is torn off, and gorgeous Sarah Dumont, who plays sexy cocktail waitress Denise and automatically enters my 'horror hotties in a tight white vest' Top Ten.
As far as the gore is concerned, there are lots of exploding heads (with one particularly jaw-dropping slow motion shot towards the end of the film) and plenty of severed appendages, including a hilarious scene involving the putrid penis of an elderly zombie. Although a fair amount of the effects are CGI, they are well executed.
With a film as gloriously daft as this, it's fairly pointless to pick holes in the script, so don't bother: just sit back and enjoy the whole ridiculous ride, from the silly pre-credits sequence involving a hapless janitor who likes to boogie, to the splatteric final act that ends with a bang.