SyFy Got Ving Rhames to Do Least Creatively Titled Anti-Zom Film Ever
The Sci-Fi Channel, sorry, SyFy (like syphillis) Channel has gotten a reputation as a purveyor of b-movie direct to cable schlock in recent years, and it’s earned them a lot of fame and, let’s face it, some ratings gold too.
Now they’re releasing what has to be the least imaginatively titled Anti-Zombie film of all time on DVD and Blu-Ray after debuting it in October, while the ZRC was busy and distracted: ‘Zombie Apocalypse’, and like approximately 85% of all recent American Anti-Zombie films (slight exaggeration) it stars Ving Rhames:
Golden Globe winner Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction), Taryn Manning (TV’s “Hawaii Five-0,” “Sons of Anarchy”) and Leslie-Ann Brandt (TV’s “Spartacus”) battle the living, feeding nightmare in Zombie Apocalypse, debuting on DVD, Blu-ray and On Demand December 27th from The Asylum.
Yes, we really did miss this one, and for that I apologize. Boing Boing covered it when it came out:
The film takes place months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population and follows a small group of survivors who are fighting their way across the country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.
Catalina? Why Catalina? Is someone a fan of the Kage Baker ‘Company’ novels? I mean, it’s just an island off California, doesn’t seem like such a great refuge for anything.
At any rate, I’ll have to rent this one eventually and give it the old ZRC review treatment. Gotta keep an eye on Mr. Rhames.
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I can see one main advantage to Catalina, and that it’s in a nice climate zone. I’d much rather be on an island off the coast of LA than off the coast of Seattle if I were on the west coast. But if they’re fighting their way “across the country”, why not fight your way down to the Florida Keys, or to the Carolina islands? Perhaps they’re directionally-impaired?