Devil’s Playground

Danny Dyer stars in yet another British low-budget horror movie and this time, he’s fighting against a country of zombies. However, these zombies aren’t your ordinary slow-walking zombies, they’re free-running zombies. So Devil’s Playground is basically 28 Days Later with elements of Resident Evil and parkour zombies taking over with Danny Dyer being one of the lead survivors. The survivors have to find a way out of London to a safe place before they die from the clutches of impressive wall-jumping zombies. A question that pops into my head straight away is why can the zombies dive through open car windows without touching the sides and jump from wall-to-wall with style but yet they can’t get through a simple door? I know it’s a movie and I’m not supposed to take it so seriously but it’s still something that left me asking that question. Anyway, Devil’s Playground is actually surprisingly decent with an average storyline and a few impressive scenes. The story isn’t very strong however there are a couple of decent parts in the movie in which all of them involve zombies eating people and killing annoying characters. The characters in Devil’s Playground aren’t written brilliantly at all as you weren’t bothered whether the characters lived or died. You wanted the zombies to eat their mouths first to stop the bad dialogue all through the movie. There’s also a couple of characters in the movie who are policemen and it felt like they were placed there randomly even though we eventually find out who they are.