As far as German teenage comedies go, this one at least doesn't suck. Instead it offers an interesting twist on the spoof zombie genre. Three high school friends hang out with the local three-goths-high goth scene and take part in a half-arsed "waking the dead" ceremony with them. Then, they die in a car crash. To their surprise the ceremony did work after all and they're now zombies ... complete with a zest for human flesh, superhuman strength and their very flesh rotting on their bones. For a while they exploit their new abilities by taking revenge on cruel gym teachers and school bullies and pursuing their love interests. At this point the pretty impressive supporting cast comes into play and manages to patch over the now somewhat stolid plot. Our hero Philip chases after the posh Uschi who turns out to be the type of female sexual predator who constantly talks about getting it off and pleasing her man and who will be the first to be brutally offed by the zombies in a run-of-the-mill US-American teen comedy. While this movie has taken many cues from standard Hollywood fare, at least they've decided to let the sexual predator chick off in this case. The film steers towards a pretty far-fetched but at least fairly original ending.
I didn't get to see this movie when it came out ten years ago. Then I recently remembered it and decided to catch up. Overall this is what it claims to be, a working teenage zombie comedy. Since those are pretty thin on German ground, it's a fat shame that nothing much became of the director nor his primary cast.
I didn't get to see this movie when it came out ten years ago. Then I recently remembered it and decided to catch up. Overall this is what it claims to be, a working teenage zombie comedy. Since those are pretty thin on German ground, it's a fat shame that nothing much became of the director nor his primary cast.