Stalled -Nice little zombie film

Okay, so, if you haven’t got much of a budget and you want to make a picture, where do you set it?  The answer: a toilet.  I had to watch this film to believe it – an entire (zombie) film set inside a toilet (and, most importantly, a toilet cubicle).  But, amazingly, they pulled it off – just.

At a Christmas party the dead rise (why... who cares!) and a janitor gets trapped in the women’s toilets by a horde of flesh-eating ghouls.  There he must sit and wait it out, or try to escape (or maybe both).  Apart from the zombies (who don’t really talk, as you can imagine), this is pretty much a one man show, as the janitor does what we might do in such a situation – which is pretty much nothing, as the circumstances don’t really allow it.

And the janitor does a pretty good job of holding the film together.  But he’s not alone.  There’s someone else in the other cubicle, but we never really see her.  All we get is her voice and they speak through the wood throughout the film.  Unfortunately, I felt this ‘mystery’ character was the film’s sticking point.  I don’t know why, but I never really believed there was anyone in the other stall.  It was like she had recorded her lines in a separate studio and the production team were just playing them at the appropriate times.

There isn’t that much gore (as the budget probably wouldn’t allow it), but there is enough humour to keep most ‘zom-com’ fans would like (and even a few quite touching moments here and there).  It’s no Shaun of the Dead, but it’s not a bad entry into the increasingly saturated zombie genre.

6/10 Should probably keep you awake if Freddy Krueger was haunting your nights