‘A vacation to die for’
The ReZort is a 2015 British-Spanish zombie horror film directed by Steve Barker (Outpost and Outpost: Black Sun) from a screenplay by Paul Gerstenberger (House of Anubis; Bad Meat). The film was formerly known as Generation Z.
Main cast:
Dougray Scott (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Vatican Tapes; Fear the Walking Dead), Jessica De Gouw (Dracula TV series), Martin McCann (Ripper Street), Richard Laing, Jassa Ahluwalia (Ripper Street), Sam Douglas, Bentley Kalu (Doctor Who), Claire Goose, Shane Zaza, Elen Rhys (World War Z), Robert Firth, Sean Power (Bad Karma; Fright Night 2), Rebecca James (Deader Country), Jamie Ward, Catarina Mira.
Plot:
Set in the wake of an apocalyptic zombie outbreak, the film centers on Melanie (de Gouw) and her boyfriend, Lewis (McCann), who visit a safari retreat – The ReZort – where every paying guest has a license to kill the undead.
There they meet Archer (Scott), a former zombie hunter who has to step up when the security system at the ReZort crashes and unleashes thousands of bloodthirsty zombies back into the wild…
Reviews:
“a promising film that felt like it could have changed the zombie genre, or at least inject a spark of originality into such films. Unfortunately, that didn’t quite happen. It got lost in a sea of its own attempts to hew as closely to the zombie tropes as possible. As a result, The ReZort is really just like every other zombie film out there, just reskinned in a different outfit.” Marcus Goh, Yahoo News
“Beyond being a fun, scary horror romp, The ReZort’s strength lies in its interesting take on the undead, interrogating what is and what’s not human, inverting the usual zombie conceit of the living having to accept that their fellow man are zombified, no longer human and thus ripe for annihilation. The ReZort switches this dynamic through its setting of zombie safari and its depiction of the undead.” Rachel Bowles, The Skinny
” … a film that wants to be taken seriously, but is so lacking in originality that it simply falls apart. Add in the cardboard characters led by Dougray Scott and Jessica De Gouw and there really isn’t much to keep us going for the entire ride.” Deborah Wee, The New Paper
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