"It's not the most complex premise the Barker original, called Zoombies, is an unpublished short story and this occasionally shows, in that there's not an awful lot of narrative to go around. The film-makers address this by running a parallel commentary on the story beats and structure from one of the characters, a funny/annoying lemur, who is a horror-movie buff and who has seen all the classics of the genre."
"One of the commendable choices here from an adult point of view is that the zombie animals are genuinely fairly horrible, and depending on the children in question, this may well be even more of a bonus for them. A sufficiently horror-hungry kid with macabre taste and an appetite for all things ghoulish will get a kick out of a film that doesn't hold back, while the more fainthearted little ones will be having nightmares for weeks."
Zoo animals become zombified, prompting a young wolf and a world-weary mountain lion to lead a group of uninfected animals to escape and stop the contagion. The original idea stems from an unpublished Clive Barker short story called Zoombies. Narrative simplicity leads filmmakers to include a meta-commentary delivered by a lemur who constantly analyzes horror tropes and references classic genre films, adding witty, reference-heavy humour. The production balances genuinely gruesome creature design with kid-friendly adventure, likely thrilling horror-hungry children while potentially frightening more sensitive viewers. Night of the Zoopocalypse opens in UK/Ireland and Australia on scheduled dates.
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