Tuesday 15 June 2021

PARADISE Z

CONTAINS PHWOOOAR AND SPOILERS

Yet another low-budget zombie flick and as unremarkable as a thousand others. This is only vaguely notable as the latest from Wych Kaosayananda, the director of the weirdly titled blam-blam knockabout (on which he styled himself as Kaos for no immediately obvious reason) Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever. It's also one of the smallest-scale zombie movies imaginable: just three speaking roles (and a couple of brief one-line bit parts), one location, and hardly anything happening for the first half hour with the zombs' incursion into the titular Paradise being very low-key and measured.

Because what Paradise Z actually is is the very softest of softcore skin movies, in which two attractive young women hole up in an abandoned resort hotel in Thailand during a zombie epidemic that oh so very gradually drifts towards them. They lounge around in bikinis, they dip in the pool, they take showers, they make love, they lounge around again. Which is all very pretty, but there are anything up to a dozen websites catering for that purpose that don't have any kind of plot or narrative to get in the way of the extended norkage. But the idyll can't last forever and gradually the undead break in, forcing the girls to fight or flight...

It's not very good, but it is only 80 minutes long and fairly painless. It's not atrocious enough to have you writing angry letters to the distributors (in this case it's streaming off Prime), but it's hardly worth the effort involved in clicking Add To Wishlist. If you're in a very, very tolerant mood it'll pass the time, but only just.

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