KILLER WEEKEND (2018)
Label: Dark Sky Films
Region Code: 1
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 84 Minutes
Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 & 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen (2.39:1)
Director: Ben Kent
Cast: Sean Verey, Mark Heap, Danny Kirrane, Ewen MacIntosh
Killer Weekend (2018) is a British comedy about a small group of friends taking their soon-to-be-married mate Sam (Sean Verey, EastEnders) on a weekend zombie-paintball survival adventure. They also invite Sam's somewhat uptight soon-to-be-father-in-law Gerald (Mark Heap, Spaced) along hoping they will bond, but it puts a bit of a kink in the planned bachelor getaway.
They arrive at the remote paintball facility and the games begin, having a bit of a fantasy-battle with the ex-military who seem to take the zombie gig a bit too seriously. Things begin to sideways when one the more overly aggressive zombies-cast catches Sam off-guard in the woods, stumbling to get away Sam accidentally plunging a tree branch right through the guy's guts, seemingly killing him. It turns out he's not dead, just gravely injured, but the most lunkheaded of the friends mistakes the injured guy's moan for help to be the sounds of a re-animated
zombie hungry for brains, instantly plunging his survival knife right through the back of his skull, killing him for real this time.
The panicked idiots group-think what to do next and decide the best course of action would be to bury the body of the actor in the woods and pretend the whole thing never happened, which they do. These morons can't seem to stay away from trouble though, in short order the group are involved in more accidental homicides, resulting tidy piles of new corpses in need of disposal.
Despite the groups efforts the bodies are discovered by Sgt Marshall (Tim Faraday, EastEnders) and his ex-military crew who set after the paintballers for some not undeserved revenge. The flick is a fun bit of goofiness with an emphasis on laughs without much suspense or fright to back it up. The real show are the Brit-blokes acting-bad and making poor decisions, and even that doesn't come off all that original, but it's an above average time waster. This definitely brought to mind stuff along the lines of Severance (2006) and the backwoods horror-comedy Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010), it's not on par with either of those films, but it's a bit better than Doghouse (2009). Killer Weekend (2018)is a fun enough watch, I didn't love it but I didn't hate it, it's a decent time waster but probably a one and done for me.
