COME GET SOME!!
2002 Fatal Sushi Productions, North Carolina USA

Director Jason Griscom Producers Jason Griscom and Steven A. Grainger Executive Producers Jason Griscom and Jami Griscom Writers Jason Griscom and Steven A. Grainger Cinematographer Jason Griscom Camera Operator Jason Griscom Editor Jason Griscom Sound Recording Clay Moore Sound Design Jason Griscom and Clay Moore FX Supervisors Jason Griscom and Junior Webb Gore/Zombie FX Junior Webb-Bonnie Moore Score James Goreman and Doyle Bright Additional Score Gina Stewart Music Antiseen-Cronic Disorder-The Dead Kings-Gideon Smith and the Dixie Damned-Hellstomper Art Clay Moore Website Michael Fritz

It's always good to know someone is still believing in the power of horror movies. In times where going to a theatre to see horror flicks means being bored to death from totally uninspired, untalented, stupid movies it's a real good thing to see there is still someone with the head over his own shoulders. This is Jason Griscom's case: this guy from NC, USA accomplished what is the best result to me, or better making his own fantasies reality. "Come Get Some!" is probably the last of the zombie movies ever made… yes it's pretty sad for me saying "the last", but hell, I can't tell you a different thing… this is really the most recent flick involving walking dead. Was it really worth it, you'd be asking yourselves… yes, it was. It was so damn important to have this movie done since that's not only a truly entertaining and funny as hell story, but because this is probably the first movie ever to grace itself of a so damn good soundtrack. Yes there have been punk rock movies before, and I'm talking about "Repo Man", "Wild Zero" or "The Sore Losers", but tell me where you have seen a movie where the main scenes are accompanied by music from the mighty ANTiSEEN… yes I could be a sucker, but believe me, this makes the difference. But let's return to the movie itself: imagine you've got the same ol' zombie movie plot, or better dead start to rise again and eat people and nobody can explain until the usual tough ones start chopping heads off and shooting the monsters tryin' to stop the menace but the disease is still spreading, and there's absolutely nothing new about this of course, and "Come Get Some!" is no exception… but the difference is those tough ones are a "last-resort man" whose name apparently can't be told (if you don't want something real bad happening) and four really hot-looking chicks who can manage machetes and fists better than their make-up pencils, and with a cast like this you can't go wrong. Apparently the infection is organized by two men, one white and one black, dressed in tie & suit, who observe things from behind and are helped by a bunch of greasy rednecks …. Useless to say, the "farmers" are played by the guys in ANTiSEEN!! Yes of course, you'll see Clayton, Sir Barry Hannibal and Doug Canipe with their roadie Travis Wilson driving a pick-up truck and blasting away zombies' heads with the so-celebrated barbed-wire wrapped baseball bat, or cussing each other while carrying around toxic waste, or, probably the funniest part, playing wrestling tricks against the hungry zombies, ehehehe…. You'd probably think with such a start this can just be a shit movie, but hell you're so wrong. The photography is a beautiful black and white shot on a 16mm camera in a way to emphasize the gore effects and the blood, and, in my opinion, the darker scenes get this way a real stronger atmosphere. If the plot is a funny look towards classic zombie movies revisited the redneck-southern fried and punk rock way and could appear pretty cheesy if you're not a b-movie maniac, the acting and the gore effects provided by Junior Webb will make you change your own mind: the guys don't save on plasma, ripped guts and bodily parts and, important thing, they are done the proper way. It's amazing to see Doug Canipe from ANTiSEEN being eaten alive from merciless zombies that also tear his legs apart from the body while he keeps on screaming and moving, like one of the best sequences from "Dawn of the Dead". Yes, of course, Jason Griscom loves movies and he clearly shows it with a million references scattered here and there through all the film, from the very first sequence which remembers the opening of Jackson's "Bad taste" to the toxic waste tube sploshing shit all over the rednecks' arms in a Tromesque way… and it's good as it gets. Another very good thing is the female commando, with Summer (Colleen Galeazzi) and Christa (Hayley Mattison) being the toughest of the bunch, with vinyl black skirts, fishnet stockings, weapons and bad-ass attitude enough to sell… they appear on the notes of Gideon Smith & the Dixie Damned "She's Venus" and tote a serious ass-kicking to some sleazy local yahoos too much on the prowl sexually at the town's pool bar, hook up with the last-resort man (if kicking him in the balls can be called a welcome…) and end up fighting against the zombies. It's not my habit to tell movie's stories straight into reviews, so I'll leave it blank for you to see, but I still must spend some words on the very movie's hero, the "Last resort man". Well imagine a younger Belushi's version wrapped in Hawaiaan shirt, leather jacket and cowboy boots sporting heavy sunglasses and acting so goofy and dumb resenting genius and you have the picture. Interpreted by Steve A. Graigner, who also helped Griscom with the plot, he kicks ass and mostly gets his ass kicked being one of the movie's highest fun points. I must admit his goofy character gets along with the female wild-bunch the best, delivering the goods during all the film, and the scene where he, sleeping, dreams about the girls getting hot & nasty for him is so funny I couldn't stop laughing looking at his face!!! If the same link to "Bad taste" can be made, I'd suggest you'd think about that when figuring out how the Man acts… and I'd give an Oscar to geniality when he gets on his knees in front of the Dead Elvis telling him he owns all the movies he has ever acted in!! The balance between gory effects and true entertainment is the key to this work, and it works pretty well, helped from the girls' cute appearance and the all-star soundtrack theme. Coming to this, I'd like to say the music is as good as it gets, with songs from the Dead Kings, Cronic Disorder, Hellstomper, Gideon Smith & the Dixie Damned and ANTiSEEN mostly giving a true highlight to the whole feature. Like I was pointing out before, there are not that many punk-rock movies out there, and when it comes to mix horror or science-fiction with music it was always the garage-frat element that mostly sprung out… well, "Come get some!" turns things upside down the southern-rock-hellbent-punk-metal-mayhem way. The soundtrack is so prioritary here most of the action sequences looks almost like stills taken out of videoclips running loose into an horror flick. I read somewhere that this is the weakest point of the film according to many, and I could agree if I wasn't a music freak, but I'd say Griscom is so obsessed with both music and gore that he tried to put it in a way to make them melt together, to make action flow in musical patterns. This is not a case some of the songs starts where their lyrics are mostly appropriate with the film sequences. Another funny musical thing going on here is the involvement of the very same musicians in the acting, overall in the zombies' part, creating a wall of long-haired, sometimes tattooed walking dead (look out for Gideon Smith springing out of a car with his giant cross-tattooed chest!!) which add more punk flavour to the whole movie, probably takin' it to a level where no other comparisons can be made… yes, it'd be pretty useless and stupid comparing "Come get some!" to "Zombie" for example, because it's all about a different way of thinking and expressing the directors' minds. Griscom's first movie is all about having fun playing with his so beloved horror imagery and mean rock music, and this is the main point where the traditionalists would hate this. And of course this is probably one of the reason why we at GARBAGE DUMP loved this movie since we first got rumors about its making. Thumbs up, definitely… it was time someone else tried to fill the void left in horror movie making since the great 80s, otherwise we'd be struck between "Blair Witch Project #200" and some other shit with nowhere to go… except for Hong Kong, maybe….

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