An overabundance of slo-mo shots, repetitive, inconsequential dialogue (“Please don’t go out there”), and frequent sappy moments (“Just leave me alone. The entire damn twist revolves around bullying: how some peak in high school, while others don’t outgrow their feelings of inferiority. ![]() Case in point: the teacher casually murmurs, “No fat-shaming,” as he watches an overweight student squeeze into the bus, impervious to the young man’s, you know, feelings. The titular “unhuman” doesn’t so much refer to the zombies as it does to the insensitivity of bullies, which sometimes renders them soulless akin to, well, zombies. The anti-bullying message may be piled on a smidge too thick. One could argue it’s already derailed enough by that twist. Benjamin Wadsworth hams it up a notch but not enough to derail the plot. Ali Gallo is another standout, totally believable in the more far-fetched sequences. The cast is uniformly decent, with Tau making for a strong heroine for whom it’s easy to root. The gore is wisely shown sparingly, and the make-up looks fantastic. Another one of our heroes justifies his decision to go left: “Because it’s the only direction that’s not making weird sounds.”įaces get torn off, bodies hacked to bits. “Do you have insurance?” a particularly obnoxious character asks a zombie. ![]() “Baby, why are you always sweet to me when no one else is around?” a blonde bimbo asks her jock boyfriend in a cunning example of the film getting “satire” right. Speaking of, the film seems weirdly indebted to Tarantino’s cult classic, its finale mimicking another one of its crucial sequences. The bus crash is awesome, with a slow-motion portrayal of each student either puking or getting injured, “Death Proof”-style. “Wait, I thought you weren’t eating anything with a face,” the vegan Ever is told when about to snack on some gummy worms. “Unhuman” sustains - for the most part - a lively pace and a playful, tongue-in-cheek tone. Whether one goes with the demented silliness of the film’s second half depends on their ability to utterly suspend disbelief. Before you can groan, “Not another fuckin’ zombie flick,” a highly elaborate twist comes along about halfway through the narrative. It doesn’t take long for the undead to surface. Our young heroes make their way through foggy woods to a decrepit building with a torn-up deer carcass (which makes for one of the film’s best, and grossest, visual gags). According to the radio, there’s a global zombie outbreak. Shit hits the fan soon when the bus crashes and the students are left stranded. Dunstan’s latest foray into the genre, the Blumhouse-produced, made-for-streaming comedic horror “Unhuman” may just mark his best film yet… which isn’t saying much.Įver (Brianne Tau) is stuck on a nightmare bus ride filled with high school stereotypes: the jocks, who terrorize the freaks by throwing Slurpees at them the sullen freaks, who take the abuse the sweaty, pervy-looking bus driver and the smarmy teacher who thinks he’s funnier than he is. He co-wrote four of the “Saw” chapters, as well as penned “Piranha 3DD.” So yeah, quantity surely doesn’t equal quality in his case. He’s the man behind “The Collector” trilogy (the third installment, entitled “The Collected” is currently in production). ![]() The group’s trust in each other is tested to the limit in a brutal, horrifying fight to survive and they must take down the murderous zombie creatures… before they kill each other first.įilmmaker Marcus Dunstan has been around the block when it comes to horror features, all of them patchy at best. ![]() Seven misfit students must band together against a growing gang of unhuman savages. The dead will have this club for breakfast.
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