REVIEW: Zombies and Cigarettes

So what is Zombies and Cigarettes about? Exactly what the title says; zombies and cigarettes but I think this movie was improperly named because the cigarettes had a very minor role compared to the perfume. I think it should have been called Zombies and Perfume, which sounds classier but that’s just me. Anyway, the story is simple:  zombies attack a mall in Spain and four survivors try to live through it.

Well, two things that I noticed right off the bat: first off, I really enjoyed the beginning when everybody was happy walking around in the mall, the nice happy music and it seemed like everything was a utopia until the zombies began gutting and trashing the place. Second, the production value of this movie was outstanding and even more so considering it was a short.

I enjoyed the characters and I even loved how the bites don’t turn you into zombies and speaking of zombies, I loved how the zombies were like ravenous, rabid, mutant looking monsters. Then, as quickly as the zombies attacked, they were defeated and from what I can gather, this movie takes place during the tail end of the zombie outbreak and it’s like just another story that happened during the zombie incident, which is what I love.

But, there are a couple things that took me out of the movie that could make this film seem a bit strange and out of place. First off, I find it very hard to believe that perfume would ignite a zombie to flames… it just seemed a bit off. The only other problem that I had about this movie is the cigarettes; I’m not sure what they were trying to say but I think it may have to do with the fact that even in danger, they still smoked sending the message the simple things in life or maybe they were satirizing cigarette smokers… I don’t know.

All in all, it’s not a bad film, there are a few kinks to work out but I think they really have a good zombie film going for them. The zombies looked pretty scary and it looked like a professionally done film.