We Forgot About the Zombies
|In the heat of the moment, fleeing from an overwhelming force with whom there can be no rational discussion or negotiation, intent only on consuming those who are different to them, to take shelter in any suitable structure is an obvious choice; the fact that the metal roofed barn at the edge of the clearing by the forest has a locking door is a bonus.
Trapped inside with the zombies outside, Mike and Damon realise their fortune is both good and bad: here in the wilderness they have found what seems to be a home-made lab, syringes filled with chemicals with hastily written labels, one of which may be a cure, time of the essence as Mike has been bitten and the change could take hold at any moment.
A swift slice of apocalyptic absurdity and high school chemistry sets, of surviving the next moment by dealing with one crisis at a time and tabling subsequent catastrophes for when they arise, We Forgot About the Zombies is written and directed by Chris McInroy with Carlos Larotta as the sanguine Damon and Kyle Irion as the bloodied Mike.
Flesh hanging from his wounded arm, Mike is understandably desperate enough to try anything in what becomes a guessing game of what comes next, We Forgot About the Zombies fitting more into four minutes than should be possible, not a second wasted as the hungry hordes circle outside and the survivors, including, albeit briefly, Jarrod Yerkes as unfortunate Tom, play “pass the potion” inside.
We Forgot About the Zombies will be streaming on the Arrow platform from Friday 25th October