2012 Horror Fest: Cowboys And Zombies: 28 Out 100 Stars

I had this one sitting around for awhile and I actually thought it was an Asylum ripoff of Cowboys Vs Aliens. Instead it's just a standard, very low budget horror movie. It's not without it's pluses however, although none of them have anything to do with quality.

I'm fairly certain that the whole thing is built around the first and last scenes and the directors vision to see a cowboy gun down zombies. Unfortunately an entire movie has to fill the rest of the 81 minute run time and nobody involved is any where near up to the task.

The film opens with a cowboy in a gunfight with a gang of outlaws. I give this scene decent props as I know it's hard to do a good action scene and while it's clearly low rent, it's not awful, and even when it's bad it's cheesy enough to be fun.

From there we get an attempt at a movie, and save for the bad editing, bad music and bad acting, it's just a bunch of nothing much. The bad stuff is bad enough to be entertaining, including a Native American who I'd guess is not simply the best Native American actor they could find, but the only Native American they could find, there can be no other explanation for how bad this fella is. The sets are minimal. There are two "towns" in the film and I'm pretty sure they're the same 3 buildings used to make up each one.

The lead actor is decent enough I guess but he's not what I would call good, nor is he given much to work with. He's bounty hunting so he can collect money for an unspecified purpose that he doesn't reveal till late in the film. You see, he fell in love with a girl who was underage, she didn't want to give it up, so he raped her. Yes, he raped her. Now she's pregnant and her pa is dead and even though her ma doesn't want him around he figures that if he comes back with enough money to pay their mortgage all will be forgiven. I shit you not, that's the story.

There are zombies, and the makeup and gore is pretty good but there's never any tension cause it's just too dumb to care about any of the characters and there is a LOT of nothing much going on in between the "action".

There are some nice titties bouncing about, and a lot of long shots of folks walking or waiting.

Essentially a film that looks like a student film project that would get a C at best.