Zombies Of Mass Destruction

By: Scott Cranin
In-House Review - Dec 15 2011

For those of you horror film fans disappointed by recent "gay horror" movies that lack bite, you'll need to check out this , gore and guts-packed zombie movie made with a pro-gay sensibility.

Taking place in the peaceful island town of Port Gamble, Washington, Zombies of Mass Destruction puts its political agenda up-front and center - with the flesh-eating zombies. Conservative Mayor Burton is facing a challenge from liberal teacher Cheryl Banks. The Reverend Haggis preaches his homophobic rhetoric to a half-empty church. The Iranian-American daughter of the owner of the local diner, Frida, is home from Princeton. Tom and his boyfriend Lance are returning for a visit with mom (with Tom planning to finally come out), but they are interrupted by the small matter of the bite on mom's neck. The and guts start flying fast and furious. Mom becomes a zombie and the two gay men look out the window to see a town being overrun by the gruesome creatures. On the run, the guys end up in the church, locked in with a small group of crazed religious conservatives who bring out their "ex-gay" equipment - it's either that or out the door to be eaten. Meanwhile, Frida has been taken hostage by an insane bigot who thinks that the zombies are Muslim terrorists, and that Frida is one of them. A political satire in disguise as a zombie movie or a horror film with a conscience? Either way, Zombies of Mass Destruction is buckets of -soaked, left-of-center fun.

By: Amos Lassen

"Zombies of Mass Destruction"

Comedy and Gore

Amos Lassen

Actually with a name like "Zombies of Mass Destruction", the plot of this film is already given away. But then I began to think about it a little bit and I realized that there is a lot more to this movie than just a simple plot. I think the film is an excellently crafted political statement about the profiling of Muslims and the way they were treated after 9/11. Director Kevin Hamedani also has something to say about the ways gay people are treated as well. I first thought this would be a no-brainer film and that I would not remember a thing about it, but I was wrong.
The film is set in Port Gamble in Washington State. It is here that zombies washed up on shore and went about infecting the entire town. There are some very funny moments in the film and the opening scene pulls you into the film. The special effects are nothing short of amazing and the gore is juicy. The movie is a genre bender in that it is a horror comedy and the comedy comes from within and you do not laugh at the film but with it. It is a low budget flick but director Hamedani gives us the apocalypse for almost no cost.