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Night of the Living Dorks
(AKA: "Die Nacht der lebenden Loser", literally 'The Night of the Living Loser')
- Genre: Zombie
- Release Year: 2004
- Director: Mathias Dinter
- Writer: Mathias Dinter
- Running Time: 92min
- Rating: N/R (flesh eating, brief nude)
- Reviewed by: harbinger on Fri 5 Sep 08
Official Blurb:
Philip (Tino Mewes), Konrad (Thomas Schmieder) and Weener (Manuel Cortez) -- the three biggest dorks at Frederich Nietzsche High School -- get a second stab at coolness when they're killed in an auto accident and reanimated as flesh-eating zombies. Thanks to their rapidly decomposing bodies, there's no need for eating or sleeping, which leaves plenty of time for partying, girl-chasing -- and getting even with their enemies.
Review:
The film starts by establishing a loose reason why we even have zombies in the first place. It's a short clip of a zombie in Haiti attacking a small home. They are saved by the grandmother of the family by torching said zombie. The ashes are then put into a urn and as they are about to be buried for good, are stolen. A quick montage of larger and larger sums of money changing hands gets it to a nice looking desk in Europe.
Now we get to the main characters. Phillip is the main character in this film, a pretty average highschool kid, his friend Weener is a typical stoner/partier type, and Konrad is the uber-geek type. Phillip's neighbor is a goth-want-to-be named Rebecca (Collien Fernandes). They are all outcasts in their school.
Phillip has the hots for one of the preppy kids, a stuck-up girl named Uschi (Nadine Germann) who is dating the preppy jock, Wolf (Hendrik Borgmann).
One day during an alternative religion discussion in class, Rebecca and her 2 equally looser-like goth-want-to-be's do a presentation on Voodoo. During the discussion they mention the usual Voodoo dolls and zombies, but also mentioned making someone fall in love.
Enter the foreshadowed Zombie Ashes. One night while Rebecca and her friends are attempting to raise the dead (using a lot of 'close enough' reagents.. frozen chickens for example), Phillip, Konrad, and Weener come to ask Rebecca about the Voodoo Love Spell. In a twist of faith while adding the final ingredient to the zombie making mixture, the Zombie Ashes fly over the 3 main dorks, but everyone pronounces the spell a failure.
Driving back in Weener's van, which now resembles a scene from a Cheech-and-Chong movie, the three get into a fatal car crash and wake up in the morgue, but now with super-human strength and neigh-invulnerability.
What happens next in the movie is your typical 'revenge on the jocks', 'have a party the parents do not approve of', and 'enlist the help of the girl that loves you in order to try and have sex with the hot girl'. The happy-shiney land is spoiled when over time the three begin to develop a taste for flesh, realize they really are zombies, and try to restore themselves back to normal people.
What I liked:
- I guess we didn't have to many 'I was a Teenage Zombie' movies.. so this helps to fill that gap alittle.
- Good background noise type movie.. the plot is weak, the budget was low, but there are some funny parts to it.
What I didn't like:
- This is a MTV-like production: A coming of age film about 4 high-school outcasts, and is full of drug and sex humor and some slap-stick violence.
- There is a bit of confusion with vampires here.. In one scene, Konrad goes and drinks his thirst full in a blood bank.. what?! yes.. a blood bank.
- The English voice actors for the English Soundtrack (original audio is in German) sound on the weak side. If you speak German, you might be better off.
Final Scoring:
3.0 Zombie Heads of a possible
5 Zombie Heads
Personal Recommendation: Frankly, unless you really like MTV style made movies, you can probably skip this one..
Availablity:
The DVD comes with German and English dubbing, but also has Subtitles.
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