Wasting Away - zombies are people, too!

Did you ever wonder what the real intention of zombies is? Eating brains? I never thought that it is that simple. And Wasting Away provides a completely innovative view at the world outlook of zombies…

The movie starts with black white scenes showing a classical scenario: a strange experiment is performed at a soldier. Some green stuff turns the guy into a pretty strong but bad looking zombie. And since the attacks of these creatures are not that cool, the green stuff needs to disappear… And of course, on the way one of the barrels gets lost…
In the next scenes we get to know the protagonists of Wasting Away: two young couples hanging out a diner and making ale cream… But some of the ingredients are contaminated with the green stuff. And the stuff is really green – even in the black white scenes!
After eating the apparently tasty ale cream, something strange happens to the guys and to the look of the movie: we now see colored images. But the couples look pretty normal. I assumed that they became zombies. Is this the big surprise of this movie?
They leave the diner and recognize some changes: other people move and talk way faster, the gang itself got stronger and kind of invulnerable. Unfortunately the other people run away from them... What’s wrong with the world? A stranger seems to know the answer: the green stuff (to which he also was exposed) turned them into super warriors! And the other people are infected with a virus and need to be killed…

But unfortunately he is wrong… After the vision switched back to black and white, we see what is real: The gang members are classical Romero style zombies – but they still believe they are super warriors.

And this fallacy (which remains almost until the end) provides a lot of very entertaining and amusing situations. Did you ever wonder how it looks and sounds when zombies make out? I almost died in the chair… In some more scenes (while watching through the eyes of the zombies) I desperately wished to see the same scene in black and white. Even thinking about how it will look like makes me laugh…

The gore effects of this very funny movie are definitely low price. But this fits perfectly for Wasting Away. The flick doesn’t take itself serious. It wants to be a comedy – and it is horror comedy at its best! If you like Romero style zombies and flicks like Fido you should definitely have a look! Big recommendation!

Release Date: 16th October 2007
Director: Matthew Kohnen
Writers: Matthew Kohnen, Sean Kohnen
Cast: Matthew Davis, Betsy Beutler, Julianna Robinson