aka Dead Z
Starring - Patrick Kilpatrick (Burn Notice, Nip/Tuck), Joseph Aviel (Ted 2, Justified), and Lucia Brizzi (Jewish Girls are Easy)
Release Date - 2012
Genre - Horror/Sci-Fi
Tagline - "It started as a documentary..." and "The ultimate weapon against an army of undead"
Format - DVD (Personal Collection) (Screeners)
Rating (out of 5):
Well, here I sit preparing myself so I can write another review for another zombie film. Not long ago I wrote reviews for Zombieworld, Naked Zombie Girl, and The Battery. All three are great films but I am just burnt out with all the zombie films popping up left and right in recent years. I took a break from the sub-genre and checked out All Hell Breaks Loose, Coyote, and A Darker Fifty Shades: The Fetish Set before I returned to the sub-genre again. However, this time around I decided to check out the film The Zombinator. I knew this film would be bad but I had no idea just how bad a found footage/mockumentary film that rips off one of the most iconic action film from the 80s could be. Either way, it was a huge waste of time.
The film follows a documentary film crew that is following an amateur fashion model as she prepares for an upcoming event. She attends a funeral and after party for a late friend and the party goes south when the undead begins attacking the living forcing the film crew and party goers to flee. The rush into an abandoned building to seek refuge where they meet a team of paranormal investigators. Zombies invade the building but before they are overrun, a man shows up with a gun and saves their lives. The man, The Zombinator, takes them away from the undead but he is now the target of an evil corporation and they send a goon, The Colonel, and a gang of thugs to stop them. 
The zombie sub-genre is so saturated by this point that hundreds upon hundreds of people are tossing one together to release. That is what happened with The Zombinator. Director Sergio Myers was in Ohio filming an actual fashion documentary when the idea for Zombinator hit him. He then enlisted people helping on the documentary to help with the film and the result is a lackluster zombie flick that is painful to watch. The acting in this film is hit or miss. Some of the characters are well played but the rest just do not fit the film which makes the scenes awkward to watch. The character of Zombinator was laughable and made this film an unintentional parody. His horrible attempt to sound like Arnold completely ruins the film. The story for this one is a mash up of Diary of the Dead and Terminator resulting in a horrible film that is hard to follow and even harder to digest. I can handle found footage films if they are done correctly and throwing that concept in the middle of a zombie outbreak would be a great way to make it feel authentic but tossing in the Terminator rip off completely ruins the film completely. Finally. the film does have a few on screen kills with some impressive effects and gore. I was actually surprised by how good the kills and zombies look but the true beauty of this will go unnoticed due to them being in a horrible film. Overall, The Zombinator was a film I had low expectations for and it gave me just that. The film is horrible in almost all fronts and is an abomination to the horror genre. I can not recommend this one. 
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