eric-wallis If you are a ten year old, you might like this. It is not horror and it is not comedy. It is just bad.

Mikel3 Last night I watched 'Aaah! Zombies!!' (aka 'Wasting Away') on the Chiller channel. I really wasn't expecting much, just a typical low budget zombie movie. Instead of the usual, it turned out to be a VERY funny film. The story was presented from the zombie's point of view often with hilarious results. I have not seen a horror film this funny since 'Shaun of the Dead'. In fact this movie is arguably even funnier than that was to me. The premise is that the military develops a serum that is supposed to turn average soldiers into super soldiers. Reminded me of how Captain America was created. Instead the serum turns a soldier being tested into a flesh-eating zombie. Later the faulty serum somehow finds its way into some ice cream eaten by four young friends, two girls and two guys. For some reason they eat it regardless of its strange green glow. It turns them into zombies only they don't realize it till much later in the story. The film is presented in both B/W and Color. The color scenes are from the Zombies point of view, the B/W 'Night of the living Dead' looking scenes are from other peoples view point. Or was it the other way around? Anyway, it was an imaginative idea on the part of the film's makers. The zombies don't see themselves as moving slow at all, instead they see the normal people as moving very fast and think they are the ones acting strangely. To each other the zombies seem normal just has they had always been except they are much stronger and can't be seriously hurt by bullets and the like. It's only others that see them as slow moving decaying corpses that growl. Later they finally see themselves in a mirror and realize the truth. There is also a very funny fifth zombie that is a janitor in the military who had the rank of private first class. He thinks he has been turned into a super soldier and acts accordingly. He's very convincing to the other zombies...for a time. This character and his military like noble attitude adds to the film's fun. Later of course more zombies join them as they too are infected. Finally they are all on a quest to find a sort of promised land where they can all live in peace and not worry about the crazy humans out to destroy them.I especially enjoyed the segment in the bowling alley where the zombies bowl against some drunken bowling teams who at first don't notice anything unusual about them. Another especially funny scene is when a boy zombie goes to speak to his girlfriend's family about dating her. His girlfriend is also one of the undead. Her family is understandably horrified by his arrival at their door.I recommend this film to anyone that enjoys a good horror comedy full of belly laughs.

djderka You will have more fun and patience watching molasses flow through an inverted egg time that used to have salt. I sadly missed some of truTV World's Dumbest Drivers 11 and missed some of the great comments by the comedian commentators, because the video I rented was due the next day.This was soooo booooring, I could not believe it. Was it made in Sudbury, Ontario. It has that Canadian feel to it. Even 2x was not fast enough, I craved for 30X fast forward.Julianna Robinson was hot throughout the film tho, and she was wearing her strappy black high heel sandals throughout the film.What was this about. Uh, some zombies got unleashed in a bowling alley because of a government experiment gone wild. How original! The plot was very, very slow and the plot was nonsensical and totally uninteresting and non compelling.Now, readers you see why he Kohen Bros. will never equal the Waylan Bros., the Cohen Bros., or the Zuckers for comedy. Wasting Away really makes you appreciate those Scary Movies and Ariplane even more.I did not give it a 1 awful, because the production values were good, nice lighting, camera work, audio, and SFX. It is too bad the crew can't get a job on a good film where their talents won't be wasted.

kosmasp Talk about wasting a good idea ... well a pretty good idea! And the second star I gave this movie, relies only on that "new" perspective on zombies. While I had read and heard, that the movie tried to do something different than other zombie movies, I hadn't read what it was they were trying to do.And it was good that I didn't. Because for 30 sec there, I was really delighted. The 30 sec. being the ones, right after I realized what the big twist of the movie is (I won't spoil it, if you don't already know it). Problem being though, that after those initial "fun" 30 sec (and before those 30 sec. too, if you will), there is a really annoying movie. A movie that tries so hard to be funny, that you almost feel sorry for it, because it really tries.But it just doesn't cut it. Of course you could argue, with the fact, that it has a pretty good general voting here and it even won in Sitges (I seriously don't know, what they were on, but there you go with tastes!). But then again, they must really dug the idea that much that they forgave the amateurish acting, the jokes that just couldn't (deliver) and inconsistencies that can make your head spin around ... in a bad way! Stereotypical and just plain flat, handling the idea with little to no care, just to make a joke or two ... While having the charisma of a dead corpse (note: not an undead one, because they actually might have some left ...) Independent/small movies need our support ... but they also need to get their ... act together, so that there is something we can cheer for! Look at "Right at your door" for Low Budget perfection! Or the British "Salvage"!