![]() ![]() Overseen by a belligerent teacher (Peter Giles), the trip sets out for an extra-credit wilderness expedition. LeBlanc) and loners Randal (Benjamin Wadsworth) and Steven (Drew Scheid), plus a representative from every social subset in-between. Alongside her friend Tamra (Ali Gallo), Ever boards a bus with sporty bullies (Uriah Shelton, C.J. Our hero is Ever, played by Brianne Tju (Amazon’s I Know What You Did Last Summer ), a socially awkward teen from a less fortunate home. A cross-section of these cliques takes a field trip that descends into conventional zombie chaos. ![]() Set in a suburban community that may as well be Shermer, Illinois, the local school is populated by the usual array of sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, and dickheads. The movie’s tagline (“The dead will have this club for breakfast”) says it all. To be sure, Unhuman is proof that even the most well-worn material can still be effective with the right amount of genre subversion. ![]() Romero, the movie proves worth a casual viewing thanks to a few well-honed performances and a genuinely surprising plot twist. But if the setup feels too much like the lovechild of John Hughes and George A. That didn’t stop director Marcus Dunstan (a Project Greenlight winner), along with his screenwriting partner Patrick Melton, from offering this playful mix-n-match. Somewhere between AMC’s The Walking Dead, currently in its final season after twelve years the show’s various spin-offs with uneven results and the countless other shows and movies about brain-eaters in the last twenty years, zombies have run their course. Although the twenty-first century started with an inspired resurgence of zombie movies ranging from 28 Days Later (2002) to Shaun of the Dead (2004), overexposure has led to the undead falling out of fashion in recent years. Unhuman combines a zombie horror splatterfest with a coming-of-age teen comedy, about ten years or so after such a concept would have been trendy. ![]()
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