The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse (2013) (Blu-ray Review)
Directed By: Justin Paul Ritter
Starring: Lee Perkins, Marshal Hilton, Maria Olsen
Rated: R/Region: A/1:85/1080p/Number of disc: 1
Available from ANCHOR BAY
If you’re a fan of zombie movies and think you’ve seen every rotted incarnation imaginable,” says Fangoria, ”you haven’t met THE LIVING CORPSE!” Meet John Romero, the decaying corpse with a conscience, wracked with guilt and ready to kick ass. In his first frenzy of undead hunger, he’ll infect his own wife and slaughter his young daughter. But now this reluctant brain-eater must brawl his way through the wretched fiends of Hell itself to protect his surviving son from the horrors of the living. Get ready for a limb-ripping, flesh-chomping animated battle from beyond the grave, based on the hit underground graphic novel from Dynamite Entertainment.
There isn’t enough animated horror in the world and I am always very happy to see something of that nature. Here, we have a nice little story that doesn’t blow us away with the plot or details, but does give us enough to at least care about how things end up for our zombie friend who has feelings and wants to be with his son who is still living. I don’t know if I care for the time jumping in this one or not, but I’ve never seen the graphic novels (if there is more than one) and have no idea how much ground they were trying to cover within the 80-something minutes of the film.
One thing I must suggest is if you have a Blu-ray player you should certainly get the Blu-ray version. The animation at times might look like a Xbox 360 game, but it still looks really awesome and will pop at you from time to time. The concept and the animation might be the best thing about this film when you take everything into account. Some of the dialogue and voice acting does come across awkward at times, the film might be a little anti-climatic, but it is a cool story with some nice action sequences and monsters. Plus, it has one awesome transfer.
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