Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)

 

 

Here is another one of those films that I’ve had my eye on for quite awhile but never got to it but now was a great time to change that.  Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a comedy horror film centering on three soon to be high school juniors who also just happen to be boy scouts.  While the three of them go off camping the zombie apocalypse breaks out.  Along with the help of a (don’t you dare call her a stripper) cocktail waitress, the four must do everything they can to make it through what might be the end of the world.  Playing the scouts is Ty Sheridan (Ready Player One and X-Men Apocolypse) as Ben, Logan Morgan (Escape Room and Shithouse) is Carter and Joey Morgan (Critters A New Beginning and Flower) is Augie.  Sadly Morgan passed away in 2021. 

 

 

Starring as Denise the stripper  the cocktail waitress is Sarah Dumont (The Accursed and Serpent), Denise works at Lawrence of Alabia which while not all that original of a joke I don’t think I’ve ever seen a strip joint called that, so kudos to the writers.  Speaking of which SCttZA is directed by Christopher Landon who has also directed Freaky as well as Happy Death Day and it’s sequel.  Landon who wrote Disturbia that I reviewed at the beginning of the month also helped write the script here as well.  David Koechner (Anchorman and The Goldbergs) has a lengthy cameo as Scoutmaster Rogers as well as Cloris Leachman who plays crazy cat lady Miss Fielder.  While the film doesn’t offer much new in the now overplayed genre of zombie flicks, it does have some drop dead funny moments. 

 

The action is balls to the walls as well with only a few minutes of down time in between action scenes.  There are some good zombie animal scenes that are both funny, horrifying, and something I haven’t seen much of before.  I know there’s movies like Zoombies or some shit like that about zoo animals turning into zombies but I haven’t seen that, nor do I really care to.  Don’t get me wrong Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead are way better comedy films while Return of the Living Dead and Day of the Dead are the far superior zombie films, this is definitely in the next category down from those.  Will I ever watch it again?  Maybe.  Will I watch the other four again?  Definitely, and probably more than once if given the chance and the time.  Very good but not quite great.  I’ll give this three and a half trampolines out of five.