Stag Night of the Dead (2010) User Reviews

No comedy at all and cheesy effects

[trashgang · 4/10 · 18 August 2014]

Somehow I came across this British zomcom and Inpicked it up thinking this was going to be a hell of a ride full of comedy, sadly it failed on all parts.

It's full of typical characters, the nerd, the macho, the hero and of course the sexy girl but it just didn't work the way it should be. Maybe the reason is the use of simple effects and when one is bitten by a zombie female who seduces the nerd by showing her tits and giving him a blow job with a surprise ending the nerd turns naturally but the way it was done I just couldn't care if he turned or not.

If you watch the cover you can see the sexy girl teasing you with nudity, but in the movie itself she never does.

Maybe some will love this kind of humour but I never had a smile on my face.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0,5/5

Not really worth the time...

[paul_haakonsen · 3/10 · 25 February 2012]

Being an avid fan of all things zombie, I had to give this movie a go, especially after having read somewhere that it was somewhat of a mix of "The Wedding Singer" and "Night of the Living Dead", and also having read somewhere that it was in the likes of "Shaun of the Dead".

So I bought this movie from Amazon and was excited to see it. When I received it in the mail, I popped it in the DVD player right away, and now having seen it, I am baffled and disappointed. This movie is one of the worst zombie movies I have seen in a long, long time. The story line does have some funny moments, but it is nowhere near the level of "Shaun of the Dead". And the effects in "Stag Night of the Dead" were questionable and laughable.

The zombies in "Stag Night of the Dead" were fairly simple in design, so don't expect extravagant zombie make-up, like that you expect (and see) in Romero's movies and "The Walking Dead" TV series. Some of the zombies were actually alright, though most were so plain that they will not be remembered.

"Stag Night of the Dead" does not have award-winning acting performances. I haven't seen any of these people before, and that is good in its own way. But I never really fully bought into the characters, because the actors/actresses didn't really portray them in a nice way. It was less than mediocre, sadly enough.

And in movies like this, you get your standard reference to Romero, and it wasn't lacking in this movie either. There was some reporter on TV named Georgina Romero, how very original.

Well, I have "Stag Night of the Dead" in my zombie collection now, though it will be bagged and tagged, placed on the shelf of my DVD collection and will most likely never ever be taken out for a second viewing.

Meh

[arfdawg-1 · 3/10 · 25 March 2014]

If the mysterious plague sweeping the nation wasn't bad enough, Dean is still going ahead with his doomed wedding tomorrow morning.

That leaves him with a choice.

Pick up the button holes and chocolate fountain as instructed by bridezilla Elaine, or go with five mates (and a stripper) to play 'Zomball' at a top secret military compound where you get to shoot zombies with huge stun guns.

Disobeying the golden rule of Zomball ('never never humiliate a zombie') the stags face overwhelming odds from the massed undead and each stag is hunted down. The truth about Zomball is finally revealed and suddenly the mother-in-law is the least of Dean's problem.

And the beginning of ours. There has been a rash of these brit zombie films of late. They are all directed the same. The production values are OK but they are hard to watch because they aren't very good. Count this in the numbers.

What a load of Zomballs!

[BA_Harrison · 3/10 · 10 October 2014]

A stag party travels to an air-force base where they take part in Zomball, an extreme activity where they get to shoot real zombies, the unfortunate victims of a recent pandemic.

Boozy blokes, tarty strippers, and the living dead. A surefire combination for a hugely entertaining comedy horror movie, or so one would think. But although the title Stag Night of the Dead conjures up all kinds of wild possibilities for sexy, bloody fun, somehow the people behind this film fail on almost every level, making yet another hugely embarrassing addition to the UK zombie genre.

Writer/director Neil Jones aims for lads mag style humour, but thanks to an awful script, a lousy cast, and very little discernible talent behind the camera, his film is about as funny as a kick in the nuts (which incidentally is one of the film's supposedly hilarious gags!). When one of the characters is called Georgina Romero, the level of inventiveness is clearly not very high.

As for the nudity and gore one might expect from such a film, the splatter is extremely limited, thanks to the characters being armed with electric stun guns instead of regular firepower (allowing for some really woeful visual effects), and the bare flesh is limited to one pair of zombie breasts and some tempting cleavage from busty stripper Candy (Sophie Lovell Anderson). All in all, a huge disappointment.

Thought this might be a guilty pleasure...

[scott_thompson7454 · 1/10 · 20 October 2012]

Zombies, strippers, this could have been low budget fun. But sadly it's not bad/good, just bad. Shoddy direction, some terrible acting particularly from the guy playing Ronny. His prep for this appeared to be watching Ali G. A lot. Like his performance this film is all over the place, trying to be funny, scary, dark, political and getting nowhere.. The stripper was seriously cute. I'll at least give it that. I spent most of the movie trying to remember where I'd seen her before. then it hit me. The video for a Euro dance version of the Hall and Oates classic, Out of Touch which came out a few years ago and in which she took off her knickers and threw them in the air. Ah, good times. In this one she doesn't take her pants off although she does get to wear an awesome red catsuit. Can you tell I'm trying to get to 10 lines? There really isn't anything else to say about this one. Other than, avoid unless absolutely hammered and bored.

Awful

[neil-476 · 1/10 · 8 May 2012]

I have a problem here because reviews have to be a minimum length, and yet I can deliver a full review with just two words - "cheap" and "awful." I can't see that saying the same thing with different words helps.

But let me say that production values are very low (image quality is not exactly HD, there is loads of background noise on the soundtrack) effects are minimal and poor, performances are likely to ensure that the unknown cast remains unknown, and a relatively promising idea ends up dead in the water due to ineptitude and lack of resources. Even the zombie makeup isn't very good.

Kudos for using a tripod for much of the film, and for music which sounds orchestral and effective.

For zombie completists only.

The Zombies Don't Get Humilated . This Doesn't Extend To The Audience

[Theo Robertson · 3/10 · 21 February 2014]

With a title like this you'd be correct in thinking you're not going to be watching a profound film on the human condition . Instead you might be tricked in to thinking you're going to be watching something ready made for a Friday nights lads' in with beer and pizza . Buy beer and pizza by all means because that'll be your entertainment - not the movie itself

You can see the producers wanting to do something along the lines of SHAUN OF THE DEAD but there's zero wit involved and instead we end up with something along the lines of STRIPPERS VS WEREWOLVES , a sort of trashy horror comedy that fails to work as either comedy or horror and ends up as trash

I did notice that there is a backstory of a world wide pandemic that has converted much of the human population in to zombies and one wonders if perhaps this might have been directly tied in to THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD or 28 DAYS LATER but the producers were worried about copyright issues . As it stands the producers should have been more worried their own production rather than someone elses and only scrapes three out of ten for including the Johns / Ward track Fantasy

ZOMBALL

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 11 December 2018]

During a zombie outbreak, the stag party decide to play a game called "Zomball" where they pay to shoot zombies with a gun that gives off an electric discharge. It is in a semi-controlled environment. Some humorous scenes, nothing to write home about. The scene on the cover never happens. Low budget. The funniest aspect was the previews where they advertise "over 5 hours of film" and "16 new" zombie films. Do the math on that one.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, nudity (Lily Brown?)

Worse movie with worse actors !

[newsmediatodayus · 1/10 · 27 October 2020]

Don't watch ! It is very very poorly acted ! Trash ! Save your time ! Horrible actors

A working zomromcom

[Equitan · 7/10 · 29 April 2013]

Just watched it again and it still makes me laugh. It's not pretending to be Dawn of the Dead or Dawn of the Dead (sorry. Bad in-joke), but it's slightly off the wall and has zombies in it, together with far from the worst story, script, acting, directing, soundtrack, et cetera in the zombiefilm world. Probably closest to Doghouse - also British - in conception and zombie-action level (but with less overt misogyny).

If you're looking for terror, angst and megagore, move on - you'll be disappointed; but if you like zombielite-ish with laughs (think Doghouse, Zombieland), lots of zombies, the odd hero, and some well-placed karma, you may well want to see it more than once.

it's nice to see that independent film makers are breathing some new life into the undead

[paul-856-45812 · 7/10 · 13 June 2011]

Zombie comedies, what can we say? I think when we watch them (and with most of them) we think "well it's no Shaun of the Dead". I know not everybody likes Shaun of the Dead, but for those people who do then when a zombie comedy movie comes out it's almost an automatic comparison, is this movie as good as Shaun of the Dead? Well anyways, with Stag Night of the Dead I may compare it to Shaun in some ways but I'm not going to be unfair, this is an independent movie that didn't have the same budget as Shaun, so let's see what it's got. Straight from the outset you can tell this is going to be a fun movie. It's your typical group of "lads" out on a stag night looking for a good time. Turns out the best man has set up something special for the day and the group are going to take part in "Zomball" which is basically shooting zombies with guns that look like they are out of Stargate but shoot like they are out of Ghostbusters (whatever you do, don't cross the streams…). Along with the Stag party they also appear to have taken the stripper with them who adds a nice edge to the laddish behaviour as she sympathises with the groom's predicament of not really being into the whole stag night scenario at that point. Zomball is a simple game for them to play; all they have to do is shoot the zombies and follow the rules of the game. These rules are pretty much stay together, keep your eyes open for recharge points for the guns and never humiliate a zombie. Now, as fans of horror we all know what happens when rules have been defined right? Yes, ever one of the rules are broken and the zombies end up annoyed and out for some human flesh. As the zombies take over the army base where all this is taken place, how will the stag party (and stripper) survive? Well you'll have to watch it and find out won't you? I find the acting in these types of movies something that often lets them down. I have to say though in this movie I was pleasantly surprised. Yeah, there are some actors who seemed to go over the top with their character or who struggled to really come across as believable but for the most part they did a good job. The annoying characters had me wanting them to die way too quickly, and thankfully the most annoying of them all was the first to die. Strangely enough though when he became a zombie he actually became more tolerable and more of an interesting character which was a pleasant surprise. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with this movie. When a movie is made on a budget that's not "Hollywood" size there seems to be a lot of decisions that have to be made, namely how much of it do they blow on the SFX. In this movie they seem to have decided on a more minimalistic approach on the gore and where CGI is used it's actually used with a purpose, not like you're average Hollywood horror that throws so much CGI at us it's like our eyes have taken so much of it in they're going to pop. There are obvious moments when CGI is used but it adds to the scene, it's there for a purpose which is what I like to see. Is it as good as Shaun of the Dead? no, and does that matter? not a bit.

Worth a watch

[Bezenby · 6/10 · 24 February 2014]

How many DTV zombie films are out there these days? There's must be thousands, all running the spectrum from really good (Apocalypse of the Dead) to the awful (Tokyo Zombie) - meaning that viewers will have to do their homework before even buying a modern zombie film. This one, a zombie comedy, is good enough to warrant one viewing at least, as it low budget really shows, but you've got to acknowledge the effort made. And it did actually make me laugh once or twice.

Five guys and a stripper are out for a stag do when they head off to an army barracks to indulge in a bit of Zomball, which is like paintball only with zombies and stun guns. You've got your innocent groom, best man and fanny rat, tourette's suffering other guy, and a few others. Looks like not all is as it seems at the barracks as anybody who gets munched by the zombies just gets added to the zombie army, or something. It's best not to think about who does what in a film like this.

As you might expect, the zombies get let loose and start chowing down on soldiers and stag party alike. It's a zombie film so I shouldn't need to get down to the plot, eh? You've got talking zombies (which actually kind of works here), bits of gore, bits of humour and not bad characterisation (plus a couple of twists) - We ain't looking for Ingmar Bergman in a zombie film, just good action, gore, and maybe scares. Stag Night of the Dead falls kind of into the 'good' category for me. Low budget, but they did try their hardest.