{"id":3308,"date":"2010-06-06T19:14:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2010-06-06T19:14:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T23:14:13","slug":"i-love-sarah-jane-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/i-love-sarah-jane-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Sarah Jane (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"With the rising popularity of Mia Wasikowska taking the reigns of Alice in Tim Burton’s 2010 revival of “Alice in Wonderland,” and her show stopping performance in the HBO series “In Treatment,” I took a second look at Spencer Susser’s science fiction horror short “I Love Sarah Jane,” a very good epilogue to a larger story I originally reviewed in 2008 for the Sundance internet short showcase. “I Love Sarah Jane” is a teen romance set in the post-apocalyptic world overrun by the walking dead.<\/p>\n

Brad Ashby plays Jimbo, a young boy who has carte blanche of his neighborhood, now in ruins, and decides to pay a visit to his crush Sarah Jane’s house. With the infection’s ability to consume only adults, now kids are running the show and Jimbo must contend with the neighborhood bullies who are ruling the houses and demonstrating their bravery by toying with a strapped down zombie who they insist on shooting at and playing with. Jimbo only has Sarah Jane on his mind and pays her a visit. In typical fashion, Wasikowska plays Sarah Jane with immense zeal, this traumatized angry young girl who has seen a lot and was forced to destroy her family. Now she holds up in her house watching the world crumble on television.<\/p>\n

Jimbo of course can not help but fawn over her even after his whole family has wasted away as the walking dead. Susser’s film is considerably low budget thus he can’t exactly spend most of his time expanding upon the world these children live in. Therefore he uses it wisely establishing this war zone and saving the pay off for one particularly grotesque zombie (featuring some rather incredible special effects for a low budget short) used as a toy for the neighborhood kids. But when all is said and done, kids are kids and Jimbo is only focused on being around Sarah Jane who looks to be alone and wallow in the regret of her past doing things she was not proud of to survive.<\/p>\n

As is typical in the horror genre, things get out of hand and we’re inevitably drawn in to a situation where we’ll learn soon enough who among this young clan will survive to see old age and who will fall under the infection of the zombie rampage. As for Jimbo, he’s fallen for Sarah Jane and we see why in the final scenes where she elicits some swift mercy that she does with the justification of a warrior woman. This is how the zombie sub-genre should be. Mostly going unnoticed save for showing in compilation programs at the IFC channel here in America, the Austrailian “I Love Sarah Jane” is an entertaining tween romance set to the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse and one worth watching if only for Mia Wasikowska who is destined for great things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the rising popularity of Mia Wasikowska taking the reigns of Alice in Tim Burton’s 2010 revival of “Alice in Wonderland,” and her show stopping performance in the HBO series “In Treatment,” I took a second look at Spencer Susser’s science fiction horror short “I Love Sarah Jane,” a very good epilogue to a larger […]<\/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":[302,367,477,491,501,874,938,1087,1219,1221],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-i","tag-indie-film","tag-romance","tag-short-film","tag-thriller","tag-zombie-apocalypse","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","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=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}