Freaks of Nature
In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.
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- Cast:
- Nicholas Braun , Mackenzie Davis , Josh Fadem , Vanessa Hudgens , Ed Westwick , Keegan-Michael Key , Joan Cusack
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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
That was an excellent one.
Nice effects though.
Admirable film.
In the small town of Dillford, known for "the riblet" (McRib) there are three major cliques in the town/high school. These are zombies, vampires, and humans. One vampire resembles Edward named Milan Panache (Ed Westwick) from "Twilight" and likes human Petra (Mackenzie Davis) because she is "pale and veiny" There exists quirky situations where the one liners are frequent and humorous. When the aliens attack, a human, vampire, and zombie team together to save the town.This is a campy film. The film is funny, but not hilarious. It is cult in nature, but falls short from being a cult classic. If you liked "The Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" this one I would place a peg below. Not for everyone.Guide: Frequent F-bombs. Sex. Rear nudity.
After a series of strange events, a high-school nerd finds that the burgeoning war between humans, vampires and zombies is about to be tested when an alien invasion turns their peaceful town into a war- zone and tries to help the survivors fend off the intruders.This was quite the disappointing though really appealing effort. What really dooms this one is the fact that there's just so much of the film that is supposedly funny but really comes off as just lame or comes off as being utterly stupid due to a rather overbearing sense of entitlement it has. The film tends to believe that gathering cameos from famous comedians and dumping them into the film to play the kind of roles they're familiar with makes for a series of cold, lifeless scenes that just seem to go on forever with people playing an overly-familiar character without much purpose in the film, and getting the chance to get themselves on screen at the detriment of the rest of the film really drags a lot of the comedy out of this one. The remaining parts of the comedy here is based on the concept of comparing the existence of the different species to the pains of growing up in high-school, and there's plenty of this here which seems to give the film a seemingly higher sense of establishment about itself than it really is as there's nothing much really done with this set-up at all and the different connections to the set-up throughout here which is the biggest part about this one that holds it back. Beyond this, there's so much to like here with the film's rather grand amount of action throughout that gives this one such a fine pace that it really gives the film quite a lot to enjoy here. The opening half spends a vast majority of time dealing with the high-school angst of the different crowds at the school and how he tries to get their different activities lined up with the set-up giving the groups quite a lot to like here, and once the film devolves into the different camps warring with each other as the three-way battle that erupts in the streets has so much incredibly great mini-action moments of the groups getting ripped to pieces in great ambushes at the main house and the spectacular scenes in the school where they realize the aliens are coming and what they want through the fun attack scenes that are given a humorous slant through the humiliation given to the characters forcing them to be nude during the encounter. Though the ending goes into some rather whimsical areas with the head alien and what they're purpose for being here actually is, there's still some rather intriguing action here with the encounter in the big pit at the end which again gives this one such a fun amount of action and great kills that gives this one a great deal of fun. Overall, these here do help this one out though the flaws do hinder this somewhat.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity and drug use.
The first 7 minutes or so when I watched it, it felt like a poor spoof film (of Twilight and a bunch of other flicks) so I really wasn't getting into it at all as I really am not a fan of spoof flicks (at least the ones they do these days).But I decided to give it another go and although a lot of jokes (of which in some scenes every line of dialogue is one) fall flat (the ratio of funny jokes for me would probably be about 1 out of 10) once the action kicks off it still gets rather amusing.It helps that it moves at a fast pace so you can't focus too much on the flaws.Teenagers cracking jokes and battling various monsters seem to been a very popular subject in film in 2015 and if you loved DEATHGASM (2015), THE FINAL GIRLS (2015) and SCOUTS GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE (2015) I'm sure you will at the very least like this one as they are pretty similar.
"Freaks of Nature" is a comedy/horror movie that actually works for a change! It takes place in Dillford, Anywhere, USA, where humans, vampires, and zombies live side-by-side and actually get along, that is, until some aliens decide to pay them a visit. With each "clan" pointing the fingers at each other and reading some sort of sell-out plan to the aliens, soon everybody is fighting everybody all over again.Dag (wonderfully played by Nicholas Braun) is a high school virgin who is cocksure the luscious Lorelei, who keeps visiting him, will be the girl to end his virginity. Trouble is, Lorelei only "visits" because she keeps her dope at his house. Petra (also wonderfully played by Mackenzie Davis) is a hopeless and hapless girl who has had to carry an out-and-out lie about her character since she was 10. She unfortunately falls for the lines of a lascivious vampire who, once he turns her, stops taking her phone calls. Ned (superbly played by Josh Fadem) is a brainiac who wants to keep his straight A school record in tact so he can get a scholarship to an Ivy League school. When he feels he has nothing to live for, he decides to become a zombie. His slow transformation is a scream! Little do they know their town's future will depend solely on each one of them.I have read some other comments about this movie that were not too nice. I think they simply missed the point of this movie. Yes, the plot was a little all over the place, but that did not bother me at all. Everyone in this film looked as if they were having a blast, so, that made it fun for me as well. This movie is rated "R" and was a whole lot of fun. It never takes itself seriously, so why should we? Just enjoy!