hyped garbage

Great Film overall

Brilliant and touching

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Heading up to a local lake, a group of friends having a party on the property realize that a meteor shower has unleashed a series of zombies from the ground and decide to make a run before they're caught and changed into zombies.This one here was a rather fun and enjoyable zombie effort. One of the best things about it is the rather fun and enjoyable atmosphere created throughout here, as this one here is the epitome of brain-less fun. This is best shown in the kind of great cheesy action to come from this one, including the one-shot sequences of the zombies running through the countryside after being resurrected as scenes of them attacking the oblivious fisherman, appearing at the security guard or the camping couple in the motor-home start this off rather well in getting to the action. As well, the redneck hunters who appear out of nowhere and begin taking them out with assault rifles, machine guns and rockets is even better as while it's quite stupid this one has a great sense of fun. There's even more enjoyable camp outside the action as the whole plot pretty much given away in a toss-away joke, the characters repeatedly make references how to behave in a horror film and the kind of attacks popularized by the zombies all give this a goofy, cheesy atmosphere that's quite funny at times. There's some great action to this, from the action on the boat-rental dock to the camp-ground battle that is full of action getting out of the cars with the dead pounding alongside them and the fights at the end with the second party getting attacked at the campground are quite enjoyable. Using one of the most logical and inventive methods of defense against zombies ever devised, a clever get- away plan that comes along and all the fun and suspense once it gets to the cars parked outside, it manages to make the film rather fun and entertaining, and there's also the fact that these different confrontations with them really manages to make this one so much fun since all the different ones allow for a great pace with plenty of big scenes throughout. Along with all the action, there's plenty of blood and gore in here, which while cheap-looking, all of these here make the film enjoyable as this did have a few small problems holding it down. One of the biggest is the self-censoring the film has towards the nudity. This one has plenty of opportunities to let it loose but comes up with ways to get around it, from a nude driver on the street filmed only at shoulder level, the in-car flashing is done the same way, changing into bathing suits is done under their shirts, a topless swim session is taken place off-screen but not seen and a later changing scene is done, admittedly humorously, by having a branch in front mimic the bobbing and weaving to keep it all hidden. The fact that it goes to such great lengths to keep it hidden is where the film comes under fire as it would've been fine had there been none at all. The other part to this is the terribly low-budget to it. From the terrible look of the zombies to the obviously fake blood to the weak CGI, this one doesn't have much to its effects at all. Overall, these are the only things wrong with it.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language and Brief Nudity.

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.

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).

It doesn't really know what it wants to be. If Zombie Campout is trying for Evil Dead funny, it's not quite fast enough or jump out of your seat enough. If it's aiming for Dawn of the dead, it's not horrific enough. As it is, the movie plays out like a big reflexive horror movie about movies. It's just kinda scattershot as to where it wants to be at the end of the day.This is looks to be Mr. Smith's first effort, and by the look of the credits, it's obvious he poured alot of his own sweat and effort into this film. The film has it's share of flubs (texas lic. plates everywhere, and the comet lands in northern Mexico) but it's really all in the details, and this film doesn't need to mess with it. There's no mics in frame, or crew members in the shot (well, maybe one...)It's got some good laughs, the cast looks like they had fun (smiling zombies tell all) making it, and has really nice gore FX for a budget like this. I did spot a rubber baseball bat, otherwise everything was appropriately nasty looking when it needed to be. There aren't any FX where someone's passing off cow liver as a victim's stomach (like Romero's done...) so big ups on originality in the gore. One of the victims looked like she was really missing her arms...I'd recommend it to someone who likes a good laugh, or anyone wanting to stage a MST3K-eque show. Better than Manos: the hands of fate or Red Zone Cuba, but maybe not some of the later Police Academy movies. I eagerly await whatever Mr. Smith does next.