Directed by:
Robbie PickeringScreenplay:
Oren UzielCinematography:
Uta BriesewitzComposer:
Fil EislerCast:
Vanessa Hudgens, Bob Odenkirk, Ed Westwick, Joan Cusack, Patton Oswalt, Denis Leary, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Nicholas Braun, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Beverly Randolph (more)VOD (1)
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Comedy drama directed by Robbie Pickering about small town Dillford which is populated by three peacefully co-existing groups of zombies, vampires and humans. The arrival of an alien spaceship triggers the beginning of an all-out war between the groups, all of which are trying to evade attack and abduction by the extraterrestrials. Three teenagers, human Dag (Nicholas Braun), vampire Petra (Mackenzie Davis) and zombie Ned (Josh Fadem), form an alliance and set out to restore the strange order that existed before the alien arrival. (Sony Pictures Releasing)
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Freaks of Nature is a textbook example of how a fairly original premise can turn into an unbelievable piece of crap during the filming process, which is totally off the mark in places, and in a bad way. A world in which humans, vampires and zombies live side by side in a heap while having to deal with an alien invasion sounds both great and insane at the same time, and it's a real shame that the handling lacks on a larger dose of humour, suspense or horror. At times it reminded me slightly of This is the End and Chicken Little in its atmosphere and premise. Unfortunately, the properly spicy vocabulary and the few relatively funny scenes (especially with the zombies) couldn’t pull it out of the sub-par in the end.
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I guess I expected it to be even funnier, and even more entertaining, but after watching Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, which was thematically quite similar, this is pretty bad. The world introduced to us at the beginning isn't fully utilized, and it essentially just turns into a pseudo-comedic horror "morality tale".
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