‘Ninja Zombies’? Oh Boy… At Least It’s For a Good Cause
You know, I’ve seen movies where the Undead intersect with the martial arts before, and they’re usually terrible, not just for Zombie Rights, but just, you know, as films.
So when I see a blurb about a film called ‘Ninja Zombies’ I start to groan a bit before I even click on the link:
“Ninja Zombies,” according to a press release, is the story of Dameon, an irresponsible slacker geek who begins having nightmares — flashes from the life of a samurai on the run and a sword that can raise the dead. When he finds a chest containing clues about his family’s mysterious past, he realizes that the evil sword is real and the samurai was his ancestor. Now Dameon and his roommates — the geeky Luke, the frat boys G and Lar-Dawg, the morbid goth girl Kara and the suburban princess Trish — must band together to survive as ninja zombies hunt them down.
See, the framing here brings up all sorts of questions. The sword’s evil, and it raises the dead, but it has an association with his samurai ancestry? Maybe the ninja Zombies are the good guys? If so it’s really a bit much for the protagonists to act like they’re the villains out to ‘hunt them down’. Sounds to me more like a long-running cultural disagreement and some questionable weapons technology to me.
Still, even if the movie turns out to be Anti-Zombie (and it sounds like it will), there’s a good cause benefitting from this thing:
Storrs now runs a nonprofit to help the orphanage she was adopted from in Nepal, called The Kumari Project. All profits from the screening will go to support The Kumari Project’s initiatives.
The Zombie Community’s all about doing good works, so I guess we as representatives of the Undead Equality Movement at least have to give the screening of this movie the benefit of the doubt if the screening’s for charity.
We just hope the filmmakers try to remember that Zombies are people too, especially in any future endeavors.
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