{"id":91764,"date":"2016-10-28T18:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=91764"},"modified":"2016-10-10T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T17:29:46","slug":"attack-of-the-lederhosen-zombies-film-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/attack-of-the-lederhosen-zombies-film-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack Of The Lederhosen Zombies film review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening sequence of <em><strong>Attack Of The Lederhosen Zombies<\/strong><\/em>, contrary to what you might expect from the title, hints at the possibility of a film that has more in common with genre progenitor <em><strong>Dawn Of The Dead<\/strong><\/em> than what we\u2019ve come to anticipate from today\u2019s standard straight-to-DVD undead fare.<\/p>\n<p>All wide-open panning shots and decidedly eerie forbidding, a real sense of place is developed on the snowy mountaintop, which plays host to a time-passing group of youngsters who find themselves stranded in the resort after one of them blows their chances of a sporting contract. Meanwhile, a deadly virus is spiralling out of control, and it\u2019s not long before\u2026 well, you know the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Despite featuring the word \u2018zombie\u2019, it\u2019s got to the point where just having this in the title doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s a horror movie anymore \u2013 which is just as well, as there\u2019s absolutely nothing scary about this whatsoever. Instead, the filmmakers spend more time trying to savage your funny bone rather than viewers\u2019 stomachs, and while there\u2019s some success (a prolonged deathbed attempt at poignant final words hits home), ultimately it feels slightly laboured.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t help that the young leads all deliver fairly bland and unrelatable performances \u2013\u00a0standing in contrast to the (far better) older cast members, particularly Margarete Tiesel (<em><strong>Paradise: Love<\/strong><\/em>) as one of the survivors. Still, the film ultimately suffers through its lack of people to root for \u2013 most of the leads are so irritating that it\u2019s genuinely hard to be bothered about whether they live or die, thus eradicating some vital suspense.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it at least tries to do something a bit different with a sub-genre that long became saturated past the point of no return. It falls firmly into the \u2018disposable fun\u2019 category, but ultimately it isn\u2019t much more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The undead ski in Attack Of The Lederhosen Zombies, reviewed here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":91765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,8],"tags":[5423],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Attack-of-the-Lederhosen-Zombies-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}