Zombies in film: Wasting Away

"Zombies are people too."





Film: Wasting Away
Directed by Mathew Kohnen
Written by Mathew Kohnen and Sean Kohnen
Produced by Wasted Pictures
Year: 2007

Story: A super soldier serum goes bad and turns the experiments into zombies. With the experiment failed the disgruntled scientist in charge sends the serum out into the world with the intent to dump it into the water system. An unwitting "black ops" soldier foils the plan and instead looses the serum on a small town. A few locals get infected and oddly enough romantic comedy ensues. The zombies believe everyone else is infected and they are in fact super soldiers! The group eventually discovers the truth and runs for their own survival as the military hunts them down.

Zombies: Well these zombies are smartish, super strong, and self aware...ish. They sometimes eat flesh but mostly just kill for their own purposes, which appear to be almost exclusively for self defence, but not completely exclusively. The film has two distinct styles, the zombies while seeing things from their point of view are for all intents and purposes, super strong, practically invincible humans. But when seen from the humans point of few are slow, moving, clumsy, flesh eating zombies.

Survival Lessons:

• Don't eat food that looks green.
• Always be drunk.
• If you think you are a super soldier, you're probably a zombie.
• Grenades are small nuclear bombs.
• Look at a person to make sure she is alive before you kiss her.

Warnings: There's not a lot of training material to be found here.





In the end there was a very interesting film in the way it portrayed "real life" versus "zombie life" making the zombies appear to be more real then the black and white, 50's style of the humans. An entertaining movie that really makes fun of the genre not only with it's very premise but also in some of the well thought out lines and gags. Definitely worth watching if in need of some silly entertainment, not so much if looking for a true zombie horror film.

Stay vigilant, may the infection never reach you, and those close to you have the resolve to do what is needed should you be so unfortunate, Mike D.