"Dead Meat" -- the Review!

Our good pals across what would be a really long swim over to the UK  "Devouring the Zombie Films of Living"  recommended "Dead Meat" -- an Irish Zombie bloodfest.  I have to say I wasn't won over in the first half-- but it really ramps up in the second half!

I think I will describe it exactly as it is in my notes-- point form.  Straight to the good stuff.  Not feeling especially "Typee" right now (but always "Bitey")-- so here we go-- I think this is in chronological order...

• OK-- this first one has to go into the "Weapons of the Living Dead" posting!  Here's the set-up!! Let me begin by saying it's not looking good for our heroine. But she manages to whip out a vacuum, jams the hose into the dastardly zombie's left eye socket-- and sucks out his eye, and a bunch of brain matter!!!  Full points!!!
• She also uses one of her high-heel shoes like a boomerang (taking out one undead)-- and the other used basically as a pointy stabbing device in another zombie's eye-socket-- or was it the forehead??  It gives new meaning to the word 'Stiletto heels!'
• The movie does NOT stick to the "Kill the Brain" philosophy of zombie killin'.  And, to be honest, true Zombie aficionados know that killing the brain did not, in the past, guarantee the rest of the body would stop wanting you for brunch, ala Dan O'Bannon's wonderful "Return of the Living Dead."
• The movie continues with lots of eye-gouging (zombies mostly)-- including a nice ear gouge.
• As the film continues, we discover that the whole zombie fiasco was caused a mutation of "Mad Cow Disease"-- my Momma always told me not to eat so much red meat!
• This metaphor is maintained brilliantly as our heroes have to cross a field of what appears to be sleeping Zombies.  But they're sleeping standing up-- just like cows.  Laugh-out-loud hilarious!
• Eventually the cows go berserk (ala "Black Sheep" or Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead). The lesson here is that barn yard animals simply can NOT trusted.

In conclusion-- the gore factor is not quite up to Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive/Brain Dead" or kitchyness of the  "The Dead Next Door" just reviewed-- but the enjoyment factor was there.