Right, well I am a huge fan of anything even remotely zombie in nature. And with a title such as "Granny of the Dead", I was intrigued, because it had the potential for being a good zombie comedy; at least it had the potential for it.
The storyline in "Granny of the Dead" was easy to follow, and doesn't really require much explaining. The elderly are dying and returning as animated corpses with a hunger for the living. A group of Young people are trying to live through the ordeal and remain alive and sane. Yeah, that was essentially it, simplistic for sure.
It felt like the movie was comprised of various scenes shot independently of one another and then put together in the editing room in order to make something reminiscent of a movie. It just didn't have a particularly coherent feel to it and it felt like continuity was a thing of the past.
Zombie movies should not, and I repeat, not have running and agile zombies. Having running zombies just adds a disruptive element to the atmosphere, and when dead, a body should not have the coordination and cognitive ability to sustain complex movement such as running.
As for the zombies in "Granny of the Dead", well I will say that there was a great number of zombies actually here, more than I had anticipated, so that was great. And the zombie make-up and special effects were actually quite nice. It is always a plus when a low budget zombie movie go beyond the usual error of just adding gray make-up and cheap theatrical blood to the face, but forgetting about the neck, hands and all other exposed areas of flesh. So thumbs up for the special effects team in this movie.
Now, I will say that the character gallery in the movie was broad. But I can't really claim to say that it was characters that you particularly took a liking to, or actually even bonded with on any level. The characters were just too mundane, generic and rather indistinct from one another. And it didn't really help that the dialogue was strained and forced; that didn't do much to make the character any more interesting.
When the zombie faces started to change from being dead elderly faces to what I assume was demonic faces, then I was about ready and done for. I was ready to call it quits and give up on the movie. But I decided to stick with it, since it was a zombie movie after all. But color me unimpressed.
It was rather difficult to get fully immersed into this movie, because it just felt forced and unnatural - well as unnatural as it gets with zombies.
"Granny of the Dead" was nowhere near as interesting or entertaining as I had hoped. And it turned out to be somewhat of a struggle to actually stick with the movie and not give into the desire of turning it off prematurely to find something more worthwhile to watch.
