I Survived a Zombie Holocaust

Synopsis

Wesley (Harley Neville) couldn't be happier- he has managed to land a job as a runner for an upcoming horror film, Tonight They Come. He also feels that he's met the girl of his dreams in the set caterer Susan (Jocelyn Christian), which makes things that much better. The only problem is that the director seems keen on using Wesley as a whipping boy to vent his frustrations and to make matters worse, the film's extras all seem to have become zombies intent on killing them all.

Cast

Reception

Critical reception for I Survived a Zombie Holocaust has been positive. Grolsch Film Works and Nerdly both praised the film, with Grolsch Film Works stating "More or less immunising itself against charges of unoriginality by constantly offering reflexive commentary on its own movie-bound qualities (or lack thereof), Pigden's film is an affectionate trawl though the mechanics of the modern zombie picture." SciFiNow was more critical in their review, writing "This well-intentioned horror comedy gets a few laughs and the cast are game (Ben Baker is particularly fun as ex-rugby player and glory-days obsessed Tane) but there’s not really too much going on here beyond the meta zombie movie jokes. One or two sequences work very well (such as the director convincing his first AD to literally sacrifice himself for the art) but it’s overlong at 100-odd minutes and it struggles to find jokes beyond the self-referential. It’s difficult to criticise a film this amiable too harshly, but it’s not particularly funny."