It’s hard to do anything new with a zombie movie nowadays, but this movie kind of does. Bill Moseley takes a star turn in a convincing performance of a mildly unlikeable radio shock jock stuck in the studio while a bioengineered zombie outbreak overtakes his city. It has its share of action, and of course zombies, but a lot of it is handled as a drama or thriller, not as a horror movie, and focuses heavily on the survivors in the studio, not on the zombies, except as they affect the survivors. Plus they manage to have a couple of scenes of things I haven’t seen before and a few moments that kept me on the edge of my seat. Directed by Corbin Bernsen, who I’ve never known as a director, but obviously had a couple of ideas, and handled them well enough to make a pretty good and somewhat original flick in a pretty overcrowded genre. Not a great movie, but a good one that comes down on this side of memorable. I enjoyed it.
