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When a police officer wakes up in a hospital to find out he is in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, he will do anything to find his family, even sacrifice Twitter.
From the obvious title, it’s safe to say that “The Walking Deceased” is a spoof. And not just of “The Walking Dead” but anything with a zombie in it, from such classics as “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn of the Dead” to the more recent “Shaun of the Dead,” “Warm Bodies,” “Zombieland” and pretty much everything else in between. I have no problems with spoofs, some of my favorite comedies are parodies like “Airplane II: The Sequel,” “Top Secret,” “The Naked Gun” and “Scary Movie,” it’s the lesser-quality satires like “Stan Helsing,” “Movie 43” and “The Hungover Games” that give their far-superior contemporaries a bad name. While “The Walking Deceased” isn’t exactly a horrible movie, it does warrant a few chuckles along the way, it doesn’t live up the the moniker of the aforementioned masterpieces.
And for that I blame the writers. While it can be sometimes amusing and in some cases, downright funny, the problem with “The Walking Deceased” is, it never tries to stray outside of the confines it has created for itself. Instead of legitimate laughs, it tries too hard to force visual sight-gags down our throats that after the second and third time, just aren’t funny. If you are familiar with “The Walking Dead,” then you’ll undoubtedly know that Daryl is one of the show’s fan-favorites and that his chosen weapon of choice is a crossbow. In “The Walking Deceased,” instead of Daryl, we have Darnell (Andrew Pozza) and instead of a deadly crossbow, he uses a children’s toy crossbow which shoots rubber arrows. The first time it was funny but after a while it became overly repetitive and quickly lost its playfulness.
This is the problem with parodies of this nature, they keep imitating the same routine over and over until it’s just not funny any more. I’ve no problem with the plot following various story-lines from any number of zombie movies or TV shows, God knows, they’re all screaming out to be made fun of but it’s the moments between the characters that should be really funny. It’s easy to dress up characters similar to Rick and Daryl from “The Walking Dead” or Shaun and Ed from “Shaun of the Dead,” we get it, they’re visually amusing but when the conversation and situations between the characters amount to, well, pretty much nothing, then you have a movie that while it might ‘look’ funny, in the end, it really isn’t.
Available on DVD April 21st
