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| MISCELANNOUS |
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| BIO-ZOMBIE By Yodasnoog |
| While zombie movies seem to have died a painful and unnecessary death in the west (and no, Resident Evil doesn’t count as a zombie movie), Asia has certainly made the genre their own over the past few years; With the likes of the amazing Versus, Wild Zero and of course, the comedy/horror Bio Zombie. Directed by Wilson Yip, and starring Jordan Chan and Sam Lee; BZ follows the exploits of two slackers, Invincible & Bee, who work at a mini mall in Hong Kong selling bootleg Vcd’s. Also thrown into the mix is Soya, who has only been working in the mall for a week, and her friend Jelly, who is a dead ringer for Michelle Yeoh. |
| There is also Sushi, a geeky guy who is in love with Soya. And there’s the couple that own the mobile phone shop, the man of which is Invincible and Bee’s arch nemesis. Trouble starts when Invincible & Bee have to go and pick up their bosses car from a garage. After an amusing incident with a cockroach and a mechanic they affectionately name “King Big Balls”, they head home and accidentally hit a man with the car, who has just escaped from some strange deal involving a chemical formula (stored in a Lucozade bottle) and a chained up zombie. The man splutters out the word “Lucozade”, Invincible thinks he wants a drink, so he gets the mans Lucozade he dropped and tries to get him to drink it, the man passes out/dies, so they stick him in the boot and head back to the mall. |
| Bee, Soya & Invincible |
| They then forget they’ve left him there and hurry back, but he’s gone and has left his mobile phone so they go and flog it to the man at the phone shop hehe, genius. But the man they ran over is now a zombie, a pissed off zombie, and he wants his phone back. And here now starts the classic chain reaction of flesh eating zombie-bastards. All of the main characters end up together as a dysfunctional team, except for poor Sushi, who ends up as a zombie, but a zombie more akin to Bub from Romero’s Day Of The Dead. This isn’t just some dumb zombie flick, it’s full of cool, likeable characters that you actually want to see survive for a change; instead of cheering on the flesh eaters, It’s more about them than the zombies. Let’s not forget that this is also a comedy, and a damn fine one too, but I guess you would have to be a fan of the Chinese style of humour to really get a laugh out of it. |
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| I literally fell in love with this movie on first viewing, watching it twice in a row, and loving it even more the second time. It also contains my favourite opening credits sequence ever, it is genius in it’s simplicity, it’s up there with the opening of Miike’s Dead Or Alive, but way on the other side of the spectrum. Although I feel you’d have to have a love for dodgy bootlegs to fully appreciate it. So if you’re a zombie fanatic, and love Asian cinema and haven’t seen this yet, then disconnect from the poxy internet now and find this...oh wait actually don’t disconnect, you may have to look for it on some video sites or e-bay…Yeah do that instead. |
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