{"id":1283,"date":"2006-09-18T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T17:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2006-09-18T13:57:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T17:57:06","slug":"zombie-island-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/zombie-island-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Island (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/zi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11504\" alt=\"zi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/zi.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a>Director Bill Whirity\u2019s \u201cZombie Island\u201d is set in a reality, where a local town attracts tourists by inviting young hunting aficionados to a small little island off their coast. This particular tourist attraction happens to be an island filled with zombies. Three young guys looking for a good time beg to go on the island, and do so by a boater who hands them firearms and handheld weapons. At first, the tourist attraction seems more like a tourist trap, but as the zombies start popping up, the game no longer becomes fun.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cZombie Island\u201d is sixty percent horror and forty percent comedy (look for the subtle very funny reference to \u201cSaved by the Bell\u201d), and Whirity balances both aspects well. How did the zombies get on the island? Where did they come from? Who cares, Whirity\u2019s low budget zom-com is funny, creepy, and worth the time spent. It\u2019s one of the more competent indie zombie movies I\u2019ve seen in a while, and I enjoyed every goofy offering in this short. In only twelve minutes, Whirity composes more creeps and laughs than Uwe Boll\u2019s \u201cHouse of the Dead\u201d put together, and loves to raise the level of sheer carnage.<\/p>\n<p>The zombie population on the island is not so much thrown together, but Whirity suggests that a large portion of this population is from dumb tourists looking for a good time. It\u2019s a great way for this town to keep the attraction going and increase the numbers for future tourists to continue the fun. Normally, zombie movies made on such a low budget, end up really stupid, or just a massive waste of time, but I found myself spooked by this, and Whirity takes his resources and uses them well. Whirity does a great job here, constructing a funny comedy, and a rather creepy zombie movie that relies on its cast, and story to get it going along. &#8220;Zombie Island&#8221; is very creepy and a really good horror film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Bill Whirity\u2019s \u201cZombie Island\u201d is set in a reality, where a local town attracts tourists by inviting young hunting aficionados to a small little island off their coast. This particular tourist attraction happens to be an island filled with zombies. Three young guys looking for a good time beg to go on the island, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[219,477,501,938,1212,1221],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-z","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}