Director(s) – Francois Simard (Wake Up, Summer of 84), Anouk Whissell (Red Head Red Dead, Turbo Kid), and Yoann-Karl Whissell (Total Fury, Ninja Eliminator 3: Guardian of the Dragon Medallion)
Starring – Alexandre Nachi (Death of a Ladies Man, Snow Angel), Derek Johns (The Boys, The Umbrella Academy), and Megan Peta Hill (Kung Fu, The Flash)
Release Date – 2024
Rating – 3/5
I recently quit my 9 to 5 to focus on using my degree to teach so I could spend more time with my kids. I originally put in my two week notice with enough time to have a two week vacation before school started. However, my previous employer did something I was not expecting. They told me to just stay home AND they would pay me through my two week notice. That gave me an entire month to stay at home and watch movies.
I recently had a health scare so my focus wasn’t to hit the reviews hard but to relax and focus on some life changes. This meant binging zombie movies while I played Once Human. I started with Romero’s Dead films before watching random zombie titles. It was during this time that I received a press release for the zombie comedy We Are Zombies from the team behind Turbo Kid. I really wanted to see it so I requested a review link. An hour later I was adding it to my zombie marathon.
**Spoiler Alert** The film follows two friends, Karl (Nachi) and Freddy (Johns), who frequently partner with Karl’s sister Megan (Hill) to pick up unwanted zombies from burdened families. The dead has came back to life and after so long the bodies decompose to the point that they are no longer able to move or function. This has resulted in several businesses popping up to help families remove them from their home. Their business strategy is to intercept these calls and snatch the bodies for themselves so they can cash in on the retrieval. This has lead to two corpse retrieval employees coming up extremely short costing their company a large sum of money. They decide to kidnap Karl’s grandmother to hold for ransom forcing the three to scramble to find the money so they can get her back. **Spoiler Alert**
We Are Zombies is one of the many zombie flicks post-Walking Dead that is enjoyable but fails to set itself apart from the hundreds of zombie comedies that find their way to store shelves. Honestly, I enjoyed it but it’s a film I will forget about in a few weeks until someone else mentions it again.
The acting in this one is a lot of fun. I liked the relationship between Nachi and Johns’ characters. They work very well together and create a great dynamic similar to other characters in zombie comedies like Ed and Shaun from Shaun of the Dead and Mike and Brent from Deadheads. The rest of the cast is just as enjoyable with a lot of different personalities coming out on display.
The story for this one is basically a crime comedy set against a world where the dead doesn’t die. We follow two con men who partner with someone else intercept calls to pick up the dead so they can turn them in for the reward. This is a clever crime film with a lot of horror elements that does work. With that being said, it is a bit predictable and the ending is not as enjoyable as the earlier portion.
Finally, the film has a lot of fun practical and make-up effects. We get a lot of blood, great looking zombies, and some decent gore in later scenes. While I did enjoy it, nothing really stood out in that regard. Overall, We Are Zombies is a solid zombie flick for fans of Buck Wild, A Little Bit Zombie, and Undead. While it was very enjoyable, it is a bit forgettable. Check it out.
