One and a half stars.
Originally published on Thursday, October 2, 2014
Rickie (Fernandez) is a Joaquin Phoenix clone that exists on the fringes of the social cliques of his school. He, along with his outcast friend, J.T., decide to cut school and explore the nearby abandoned insane asylum. In the bowels of this building, they discover a girl gagged and strapped to a gurney. Being the imbalanced shitbag that many teenage boys are known to be, J.T. decides to use the girl as his sex slave. This puts him at odds with Rickie, who leaves in disgust.
However, Rickie returns the next day to discover J.T. with a couple more of their friends. J.T. discovered that the girl is actually dead. So naturally, they rape and engage in necrophilia at the same time. To make matters worse, J.T. wants to lure other girls to the asylum to infect them with the same virus.
From there, this movie pretty much becomes Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door with a zombie. I think director Marcel Sarmiento wanted to come up with an original idea that explores different elements regarding the sub-genre of the undead. Ultimately, I found it to be rather tedious and repulsive. Even the victims (with the exception of the zombie herself) are annoying beyond redemption.
Speaking of the female zombie, we are never given a clue as to why she's in the basement of this fucking place. I think it's established that this facility has been closed for some time. Yet, this female member of the undead appears to have not been there for very long. I'm judging that from the fact that she's hardly decomposed. Once again, I understand that some horror films works when certain elements are explained. But here, it just screams lazy writing. I mean, was there some mad scientist hanging out down there this whole time, kidnapping girls to experiment with? As you watch, you'll notice that the place appears to not have much human activity anywhere nearby, save for a Doberman guard dog. Yet, she had to have been placed there recently. And apparently, the protagonists of this piece have seen enough zombie movies to understand the ground rules without question.
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