Dustin Mills‘ Zombie A-Hole was made for $1000, yet manages to demonstrate that, with a camera, some friends, and a decent enough script, you make make a movie as enjoyable as most studio releases. Is it Oscar-caliber? No. This is a b-movie, through and through, right down to the faux-graininess of the movie and the Southern rock soundtrack by some anonymous band. The whole of Zombie A-Hole feels like it was plucked straight from the vaults of Crown International, and is a nice nod to ’70s exploitation flicks. Granted, the downside is that the movie, while entertaining, is also pretty terrible. Mills does an admirable job getting competent performances from his actors, but there’s no one here that rises above perfunctory.
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