The original Plaga Zombie was a surprisingly good little zombie film - especially good considering that it was made for about $120. It was short, sweet, fun and entertaining. For this follow up, made four years after the original, I'm guessing the filmmakers got a bigger budget to work with; and the result is a longer film. The plot is some nonsense about aliens, and basically just an excuse to have all the people from the first film going back into town to fight zombies again. What this film really proves is that bigger is not necessarily better. The extra runtime basically just means more scenes of zombies getting mashed up by various weapons, and while it was sort of fun in the first film; it soon gets tedious in this one. I guess that after a while (about forty minutes of screen time), the producers realised that they couldn't just have the main characters fighting zombies for an hour and a half, and so the plot is padded out with a whole load of bizarre stuff that isn't funny or interesting. The special effects are cheap and nasty too; which isn't surprising considering the obvious budget constraints. All in all, I really can't say I was impressed with this. I'd recommend the first film, but not this follow-up!
Review of Plaga zombie: Zona mutante
Plaga zombie: Zona mutante
(2001 Video)
More zombie nonsense....not as good as the first
11 June 2009