Stag Night of the Dead
Stag Night of the Dead
| 01 May 2012 (USA)
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If the mysterious plague sweeping the nation wasn't bad enough, Dean is still going ahead with his doomed wedding tomorrow morning. That leaves him with a choice. Pick up the button holes and chocolate fountain as instructed by bridezilla, Elaine, or go with five mates (and a stripper) to play "Zomball" at a top secret military compound where you get to shoot zombies with huge stun guns. Disobeying the golden rule of Zomball ('never never humiliate a zombie') the stags face overwhelming odds from the massed undead and each stag is hunted down. The truth about Zomball is finally revealed and suddenly the mother-in-law is the least of Dean's problems....

Reviews
RyothChatty ridiculous rating
Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,
Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
BA_Harrison A stag party travels to an air-force base where they take part in Zomball, an extreme activity where they get to shoot real zombies, the unfortunate victims of a recent pandemic.Boozy blokes, tarty strippers, and the living dead. A surefire combination for a hugely entertaining comedy horror movie, or so one would think. But although the title Stag Night of the Dead conjures up all kinds of wild possibilities for sexy, bloody fun, somehow the people behind this film fail on almost every level, making yet another hugely embarrassing addition to the UK zombie genre.Writer/director Neil Jones aims for lads mag style humour, but thanks to an awful script, a lousy cast, and very little discernible talent behind the camera, his film is about as funny as a kick in the nuts (which incidentally is one of the film's supposedly hilarious gags!). When one of the characters is called Georgina Romero, the level of inventiveness is clearly not very high.As for the nudity and gore one might expect from such a film, the splatter is extremely limited, thanks to the characters being armed with electric stun guns instead of regular firepower (allowing for some really woeful visual effects), and the bare flesh is limited to one pair of zombie breasts and some tempting cleavage from busty stripper Candy (Sophie Lovell Anderson). All in all, a huge disappointment.
arfdawg-1 If the mysterious plague sweeping the nation wasn't bad enough, Dean is still going ahead with his doomed wedding tomorrow morning. That leaves him with a choice. Pick up the button holes and chocolate fountain as instructed by bridezilla Elaine, or go with five mates (and a stripper) to play 'Zomball' at a top secret military compound where you get to shoot zombies with huge stun guns. Disobeying the golden rule of Zomball ('never never humiliate a zombie') the stags face overwhelming odds from the massed undead and each stag is hunted down. The truth about Zomball is finally revealed and suddenly the mother-in-law is the least of Dean's problem.And the beginning of ours. There has been a rash of these brit zombie films of late. They are all directed the same. The production values are OK but they are hard to watch because they aren't very good. Count this in the numbers.
Bezenby How many DTV zombie films are out there these days? There's must be thousands, all running the spectrum from really good (Apocalypse of the Dead) to the awful (Tokyo Zombie) - meaning that viewers will have to do their homework before even buying a modern zombie film. This one, a zombie comedy, is good enough to warrant one viewing at least, as it low budget really shows, but you've got to acknowledge the effort made. And it did actually make me laugh once or twice.Five guys and a stripper are out for a stag do when they head off to an army barracks to indulge in a bit of Zomball, which is like paintball only with zombies and stun guns. You've got your innocent groom, best man and fanny rat, tourette's suffering other guy, and a few others. Looks like not all is as it seems at the barracks as anybody who gets munched by the zombies just gets added to the zombie army, or something. It's best not to think about who does what in a film like this.As you might expect, the zombies get let loose and start chowing down on soldiers and stag party alike. It's a zombie film so I shouldn't need to get down to the plot, eh? You've got talking zombies (which actually kind of works here), bits of gore, bits of humour and not bad characterisation (plus a couple of twists) - We ain't looking for Ingmar Bergman in a zombie film, just good action, gore, and maybe scares. Stag Night of the Dead falls kind of into the 'good' category for me. Low budget, but they did try their hardest.
Neil Welch I have a problem here because reviews have to be a minimum length, and yet I can deliver a full review with just two words - "cheap" and "awful." I can't see that saying the same thing with different words helps.But let me say that production values are very low (image quality is not exactly HD, there is loads of background noise on the soundtrack) effects are minimal and poor, performances are likely to ensure that the unknown cast remains unknown, and a relatively promising idea ends up dead in the water due to ineptitude and lack of resources. Even the zombie makeup isn't very good.Kudos for using a tripod for much of the film, and for music which sounds orchestral and effective.For zombie completists only.