The Zombies Came to Vermont

I was bored last night, and sick of dealing with fixing something, so I took the time to watch a low budget gem called Zombie Town (see the trailer here).



What is the film about? Well, part of it is a farce about small town life in Vermont (based on what Google could tell me about landmarks, it was filmed in and around Rutland) and a loving critique of the zombie genre. Yes, there are a lot of guns, and the two male heroes do not have applicable skills to surviving a zombie apocalypse but...the female protagonist is of course a skilled biological research science who just happens to have come home to Vermont. It is so very likely.

But...

For all of the faults of the film, it was really enjoyable, especially how they were laughing at themselves with the purposely knowing dialogue.

It is on Netflix Instant, so...it is not something that you have to go looking for and it is worth the 87 minutes of running time. I mean, if you are into the zombie thing.


Speaking of zombies, I read Iain McKinnon's "Domain of the Dead" and the follow-up (parallel narrative) "Remains of the Dead".

Yes, they are slim volumes, and yes, they do not offer anything new to the genre, but they are great character studies and they offer another version of how the world would look, especially things about the human population being reduced to fifteen million people and the world under martial law (which offers some interesting looks on how conscription would work for everyone, and not just for military service, and how crackdowns would happen...).

They are great beach reads of the "holy crap, are they going escape!?!" variety.