Episode 261: Zombie Night (2003) and Zombie Night 2: Awakening

Send us Fan MailOh this one is on you, Stephanie Grant. This one is all on you. Zombie Night and Zombie Night 2. No, not the zombie night with Daryl Hannah, Alan Ruck and Anthony Michael Hall written and directed by Murphy from Z Nation. Nope. That scored a flat tire of a 3.5/10. This, the 2003 Canadian movie, its Sequel and then that mockumentary about the making of it were all written and directed by David J Francis, and it’s  sequel may be something else entirely. Reel Zombies, the mockumentary we scored 2.5.The blurb - Following the end of World War III, the dead have risen and are eating the living after sunset. A group of survivors are holed up in a building fighting off the undead. One night though, the zombies break through, forcing the group to evacuate. They find themselves running through the woods, trying at all costs to stay alive.So my money is on running along corridors, running down tunnels, running in the woods. With probably night vision. And bad zombies. However I could be wrong…. But I am not normally when it comes to zombie movies. It stars nobody other than the director as, and I am being serious “man peeing.”Oh Jesus that left an aftertaste, like sucking diarrhea through a bums sweat sockI will review both at the end….Hold your nose, we are going in againZombie Night 2: The AwakeningMosquitoes spread a zombie plague, and humanity is devastated. Denied shelter with a heavily armed group of survivors, Keith and Shelley attempt to clear out a marina and use it to escape to a better location. Amid attacks by nocturnal zombies, the previous group begin to raid them for supplies.Susan Walker of The Toronto Star rated it 1.5/4 stars and wrote that it "might be enough to satisfy a loyal fan base" but is not a good film.[3] Ulises Silva of Quiet Earth rated it 4.5/10 stars and called it "a suspense-less, ineffective zombie film" that could have benefited from a higher budget.[4] Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2, academic Peter Dendle said, "There are at least a few interesting touches in the zombie conceptualizations here, unlike the depressing and tedious vision in the first feature.Zombie night… 2/10Zombie night 2 the awakening 2.5/10Seriously they make the Daryl Hannah Zombie Night look like fucking Shakespeare.