Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Mayhem (2017)

Director: Joe Lynch. Cast: Steven Yeun, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand. 86 min. Unrated. Action/Horror.

A zombie movie in disguise: a viral infection suppresses all forms of emotional inhibitions - and the protagonists are infected too! Hence, extreme violence runs amok, and our hero and heroine take part in its full glory. The fact that the violence is a metaphor for corporate ruthlessness in America (a character notes one of the female board members sounds nicer ever since she's been infected), is the stamp of a true zombie film - in lieu of its lack of brain-eating undead. But that's where the fun ends, and all you have left is characters spilling lots and lots of blood.

PS: Steven Yeun (Glenn from The Walking Dead) better be careful. He can get stuck doing zombie films for the rest of his life.

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