Dead Shack (2017)
Comedy horror labelled as "A family fight off zombies while spending time in a cabin in the woods".
I was expecting a Cabin In The Woods knock-off.
Instead is a non-comedy non-horror filled with main characters who aren't exactly likeable.
There's Dad, Daughter, Son, and a friend of the two kids, and Dad's missus.
The Dad is a 40+ year old man-child who spends the whole movie drunk and acting like an a-hole to his entire family.
Dad's missus is a 30 year old, a drunkard as well, who treats the kids like sh*t, gets drunk, turns into a zombie, then tries to kill the kids.
The Daughter is a wannabe tom-boy who treats her Brother like crap and treats her potential love interest (her Brother's "friend") like dirt.
The Brother is the same, treats his friend and his Sister like crap.
And the young lad who plays the put-upon friend is basically there to do his best impression of Jay Baruchel and runs the show throughout the entire 1st and 2nd acts... in the third act, he kinda becomes a non-character among the 3 kids of the film.
Then there's Lauren Holly playing the main antagonist who runs around in a ski-mask.
She's basically feeding the zombies, and uses them as guard dogs.
Like the friend of the family though, she's kind of a non-character, has little threat value, and then sort of does some stuff in act 3 that has absolutely no impact.
If anything, I actually wanted the zombies to win.
There's nothing to warrant me actually getting behind the characters.
Considering this was shown super-late on the Horror channel on a Friday night... says it's best as a post-pub movie while falling asleep on the sofa after drinking too much
(like the characters).