Attack of the Radioactive Zombies (2022) Poster

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6/10
A solid low-budget genre effort that might not always work for everyone
kannibalcorpsegrinder10 January 2024
After a worldwide apocalypse, a group of survivors are brought into a secretive organization with the potential to develop a cure for the whole scenario, but as they travel through the facility trying to make sense of everything a zombie outbreak causes them to try to escape from the facility alive.

This was a decent enough indie genre effort. One of the better features here is the general setup here involving the creation of zombies and other undead creatures from the radiation that's covering the planet causing the need for a society to try to find the potential cure by keeping the creatures as subjects to be experimented on so that it can continue. This encapsulates the majority of the first half where the inner workings of the facility where they conduct their research to the new recruits are shown what's going on that features several impressive setups showing the increasingly out of control nature of their plans while dealing with the comically zany guests that go along with everything. With cursed tours through graveyards, incompetent scientists trying to study the effects of their mission, and the aftermath of the tour when the zombies are set free to rampage through the facility in massive swarms, there's plenty of enjoyable factors to be had with the silly action taking place throughout the house which features some fine action and effects work for what type of film this really is to give this some enjoyable factors. There are some factors present here that bring the film down. The most obvious and overarching aspect of this one is the wholly cheap and flimsy low-budget tone present where the whole thing looks exactly like the ultra low-budget feature it really is. With inept effects-work trying to overcome a plot that's more ambitious than the budget, inappropriately comical reactions to what's taking place, ineffective props, bizarre lighting, and a guerilla-style approach to everything, there's no escaping what's on display as it carries on throughout the whole film hitting this over the viewer's head at every opportunity. Regardless of how much that impacts a viewer's preference for the film, it being overlong and somewhat dull is a much more prominent and impactful issue as this one slows to a crawl at points where it focuses on more conversations than action and highlights the unnecessary length this one runs at which could've been trimmed down considerably to be the real issues here.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
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