REVIEW: Fleshbeast
While at the Zombie Outbreak Film Festival I saw a short zombie movie entitled Flesthbeast. The setup is that the footage in the film was found after it had been missing since the 70’s and we are watching it. The story, from what I can understand, is about two scientists that don’t like each other and they are testing something out on a corpse that fell from a plane… and then the corpse rises up… the male scientist dies and female is happy but she realized that having two zombies in a lock down lab is not good. If, that’s what really is going on. I cannot even begin to explain what’s wrong with this movie.
One major problem that I had and that I noticed right off the bat… the awful voice dubbing!!! It was to loud and it didn’t seem natural and normally I can handle bad voice dubbing but it sounded more like a voice over than anything else. Other than that, the rest of the movie was just a scrambled mess of colors, effects and images. Honestly, I could not find a single plot in the movie and the plot that I thought of was what I could gather from the movie. There were a bunch of close-ups that didn’t need to happen, the images were too blurry and I could not understand what the action was.
What I did enjoy was the fact that it was a tribute to the 70’s style grindhouse movies and I could tell that Planet Terror heavily inspired it; it had the film grain, the film scratches and the over or under exposed shots… but it got annoying after a while. The one thing that I would change would be the zombie design, it was good makeup but the zombies looked like something straight out of C.H.U.D.
I think this movie is a good example o the term “good special effects don’t make a good movie.†There is a lot to improve on this movie and I honestly did not like it at all and I think that it there is a lot of room for improvement.
