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A Canadian effort to save me from Daniel Baldwin on TUBI. An eco-warrior group are demonstrating the logging of an island, but the company doing the logging, or raping the land as the hippies say, are doing far, far worse. They are pumping the trees with a chemical that makes them grow three times as fast.

The trees, understandably, as not happy about this and are not going to take it lying down, unless they have already been chopped down, of course, and start spitting out this red ooze. A logger gets the red ooze in his blood stream and we have a survival story where loggers, scientists and tree hugging hippies are having to work together to make it out of there.

TBF the acting was fine, the gore and zombie make-up was fine but the pacing was all off, the edit was messy and padded with scenes and shots that didn't work. We had way too many cuts away too soon, to show a fucking misty lake, or the tree tops, random POV night scope zombie footage once, and some awful repurposed footage.

It was a 4/10 for me with the idea of an eco-disaster causing it, and it being the trees. The trees! It is in the trees!

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Woah. Where to start with this one? Unpick this at your leisure; Matool is surviving the zombie apocalypse in Southern Colorado by killing the slow moving, blue faced undead with a hammer and long nails. Okay so far? I was.

Then after a zombie attack on the hut he is hiding in with others he runs out into the street and is knocked over by Nathan in his pickup truck. Matool is knocked unconscious, gaffer taped at the wrists and ankles and then driven back to cuckhold Nathan's home for his nymphomaniac trailer trash wife Dexy. And from there we learn Nathan and Dexy have an open relationship, an alternative lifestyle they have difficulty maintaining in the zombie apocalypse, hence Nathan kidnapping Matool and others.

Add Dexy's psychotic sister Sassy with a third sibling's face growing out of her side like an arsehole with teeth, and that Nathan is into screwing hot female zombies he keeps chained up in the shed, and this isn't going to give anyone sweet dreams.

I scored it 3/10 for uniqueness of story and the zombie gore was ok too. However, I would avoid this like you would Johnny Z.

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The Spanish team behind REC would have us hate the Americanized version of their movie, but that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Much like #Alive and Final Days and Let the Right one In and Let me In, I feel the 2008 US remake of the Spanish game changing REC of the year before deserves a chance.

I am a glass half full reviewer and know that his has a decent cast, with Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, a young Joey King, Johnathon Schaech and Gregory Germann, Bernard White, Rade Šerbedžija and Doug Jones sliding into the ill-fitting soiled painties of the monster at the end. It will have FX and tension on par with the original. It just isn't the original.

The ending does change, and it actually makes more sense, if you are no a fan of possession stories, but the rest is pretty much the same. I think some of the scenes they added add to the story, the brain drill for example, Randy the asshole and the dog, but I can's score it as high as REC as it just isn't original.

Still worth a watch at 6/10. REC (7/10), REC2, REC: GENESIS, REC:APOCALYPSE, QUARANTINE and QUARANTINE 2:TERMINAL (6/10)

and now this frees me up to watch this weekends diabolical DVD offering The STINK OF FLESH.