Wonderful Movie

Great Film overall

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Bunny and Steve plan a weekend camping trip with Trevor and Tammy whom they hope to hook up so Tammy will forget her former boyfriend. But once at the camping site, radioactive meteorites crash into a nearby cemetery causing the dead to rise up from their graves. Which none of the major characters realize for about half the film.The zombies don't even come into play into half an hour goes by and due to the feeble attempts at humor (the near-nudity gag akin to an Austin Powers film is not witty nor clever in the slightest, the 'plot encapsulating' park ranger is slightly less irritating) what a long 30 minutes it is. As for the rest of the film, it's no great shakes either, but at least something, no matter how inept or badly acted, is happening. Make no doubt about it, this horror/comedy stinks more then a year-old decomposing corpse.My Grade: F

I must say, in the long list of B movies I've savored, this wasn't particularly decent. Sure, it had some guilty pleasure moments that made me smile, but others were just plain.. well, ugly in a cinematic sense. There was a brief moment of attempted CGI(if you could call it that) and unfortunately the 'best'(used loosely) looking zombies don't appear towards the end.((SPOILERS)) For those of you looking for some 'campy' zed flick to enjoy, this isn't it. For the devoted zombie addict it was low tier, not something I'd share with friends.. and surprisingly, no notable nudity save a few 'teaser' moments. It's like they tried to make a PG 13 'zombie' movie.

A bit disjointed at moments but overall a great religious allegory. From some of the other reviews it is obvious that many people didn't "get it". The zombie motif is a brilliant metaphor for the ham-fisted efforts of the L.D.S. religion. The zombies symbolize the persistent evangelical (and often mindless)efforts of its missionaries. The story seems to be designed to be entertaining yet not overly preachy in its critique of Mormon and other evangelical religious cultures.I found the abortive use of (almost) nudity to represent the sexual repression at play within the evangelical community at large. The director seems to be throwing Mormon hypocrisy at us, forcing us to examine our own conflicted values.Today's current religious climate has made films such as Zombie Campout necessary. Here in the bible belt it is increasingly difficult to engage in constructive dialogs regarding religion. It appears that the writer chose the L.D.S. community for this metaphor as it seems to be the most glaringly obvious match for the analogy. I am sure that it took some amazing courage to produce this film and to find funding for something so critical of a mainstream religion.Though some may find the religious overtones too subtle to grapple with I think this film will stand the test of time as the zombie novelty wears off. This film will go a long way to further religious diversity and tolerance.

It's amazing what you can do with just a couple of friends, some cheap makeup,camcorder and some obviously fake torn off body parts which must belonged to some dress-up doll. I'm sure they must have had a lot of fun making it. It must have cost a lot of effort and time. All of these components put together can help in creating an awesome movie, a blockbuster even. There's always that possibility. But not in this case. The parts I've already seen (I still have to see over an hour of this movie) show me it's still infinitely better then the witches of the Caribbean, a similar low budget movie. Thats still part of my 'looking on the bright side' philosophy. What prevents this movie from being a worthy horror movie; is the crappy sound, the actors who don't seem to know how to act, the 'special' effects and the entire lack of horrific ambiance (lighting and all of that stuff).