Review – I, Zombie

“Fangoria presents” because probably nobody else would be willing to touch it. Though I’m usually a big fan of zombie movies – especially the low budget variety – this one is far too sentimental for my tastes. The plot revolves around an English guy who gets bitten by a zombie and ends up with an overpowering craving for human flesh. Needless to say, this forces a bit of a lifestyle change on him, compelling him to abandon his girlfriend and take to killing and eating whomever he can get his hands on. And to make matters worse, his dead-but-still-ambulatory body begins to rot away. Some of the gore is sort of fun, but the gross-outs are interrupted far too often by uninteresting, soul-searching monologues, dream sequences, extended convulsions and other unwelcome distractions. The result plays out like a Romero-ized retelling of The Metamorphosis. Final capper: decomposing zombie masturbation with sickly comic result. See if desperate