Zombie Film Review:
Codename: Yin Yang
Director: Henrik Anderson & Bo Morch Penstoft
Year: 2006
Tagline: There's something rotten in the state of Denmark…
Review: A swat team with guns is just how this opens, two women, one with guns, one with blades…, its quick and choppy cinematography and as the film continues here comes Mr Bobo, an excellent evil genius with twisted sidekick and suddenly there's a city filled with the living dead, its kind of a cooky mix up but it does work…
Zombie Quality ***
Frantic camera work helps cover a multitude of sins, but these amateurish creations, bleeds loads, are peeling the most and all have gammy teeth, they are ace & primitive but effective, as you need no help working out exactly who you don't want to get bitten by…
Zombie Behaviour ***
Little bit quick, but good and mindless and infecting… they eat flesh and die with head shots… the only slightly dodgy bit is when they die by being chopped in the stomach, but I suppose having a heroine with a sword and no money for decapitations is not a good mix for a traditional zombie movie…
Zombie Threat *
Through MacDonalds, yes MacDonalds, the virus spread across Denmark, but before the end of the film the zombies are dead… so not much of a threat after all… Not really threatening as they are all now dead dead, not simply undead…
Gore Content ***
The vomiting is really gross and there's tonnes of gunshots, blood sprays, etc, but some excellent disembowelling and real offal used and some bones like a brain punch and decapitation
Overall Quality ***
Despite the electric bread knife wielding insane scientist and the toilets filled with zombie experiments, this is one of the most entertaining no-budget zombie flicks I've ever seen. It knows what it can do, stays tongue in cheek… more low budget genre films should show this much imagination, rather than attempting to, and failing to, punch above their weight…
Special Award: Awesome DVD extras… although in Danish, with some subtitles in English, the sorts include Help on making zombies and making blood in low budget productions…
