Zombie Tidal Wave (2019)

What a scream this was. I'm sure it must have been made as a scream. Surely! I guess it's a kind of spoof thriller/horror where most of the budget has been spent on makeup and probably one known actor. Oh, you know - that one from Beverly Hills 90210. For anyone who watched such stuff in the 90's. Ian Ziering. That's his name. He was in all 292 episodes of that show!

Anyway, this bonkers film is about a bunch of Zombies with blue blood who start appearing from the sea in some American coastal town and chomping the locals. Some of whom get together in order to work out how to combat them (often in choreographed fight/dance scenes) and save the day. The acting is pretty awful throughout by everyone, including (and maybe especially) him!

After these Zombies start popping up, there's some sort of tidal wave (hence the title) which scoops up many hordes of them and washes them all ashore. Our hero is on his boat at this time and somehow manages to get it to surf the wave and get him and his mate safely ashore!

The water from the wave is gone in an instant on the land and the Zombies start walking the Zombie-walk amongst the living. Bite the living in the head and it explodes a gush of blood - and they are then a Zombie too. Bite them anywhere else and it takes time to get ahold. The Zombies can't seem to be stopped/killed in any way except for the one which they discover - using electricity. So our crack team start to work out ways to trap them all and zap them all! Yeah, OK, it's a spoiler. But you're not going to watch this! And if you do, you won't care!

It's all so ludicrously tongue-in-cheek and clear that director Anthony C Ferrante and Ian Ziering have cooked this yarn up for their amusement and sport. The CGI is dreadful throughout, but some of the gore-based scenes have worked well-enough with makeup aplenty. There's some kind of explainer thrown in towards the end involving a pharmaceutical firm from 30 years back who were testing something-or-other which wasn't allowed - and went wrong - so it had to be done on the quiet - they, lining the local authorities' pockets with silver in the process!

This is utter tripe of course, but it's also great fun to watch - beers, mates, Friday night after the pub. Not to be taken in any way seriously - just to be silly-entertained! It's also quite good fun looking out for continuity errors if the effect of the beer wears off! So don't rush out and pay extra to see it - wait until it's included with one of your streaming services. But if you must, you can. Cough the price of a large coffee and see it now on various of them!