To celebrate the DVD release, here is our review of Stag Night Of The Dead!

Review by Lucy Pitt.

There’s an area in Birmingham called Newtown, which is not dissimilar to the New Town portrayed in brilliant Zombie film Stag Night Of The Dead – apart from the stun guns, but I bet it won’t be long.

Reluctant stag Dean, played by Sebastian Street, makes a doomed decision to go and play ‘Zomball’ with the lads, travelling to top secret military academy ‘New Town’ to shoot Zombies with huge stun guns. But they disobey the first rule of Zomball – don’t humiliate the Zombies – and are picked off one by one in imaginatively hilarious and gruesome ways. The film is a glorious mixture of Night Of The Living Dead, The Wedding Singer and The Running Man, and manages to do exactly what it says on the tin.

I can’t help but be full of admiration for anyone who attempts to make an actual indie movie. I don’t mean a ‘Christina Ricci’s in it’ movie, I mean an actual ‘we made this ourselves because we wanted to’ movie. This film ticks every box on the Zombie list too. It’s cheaply but cleverly made, it’s tongue in cheek and deliciously gory, and has great special effects on a budget.

The cast are mostly impressive, and the script is well written and witty. This is the kind of film that gets a big budget remake (They will ruin it). Stag Night Of The Dead delights with it’s sheer imaginativeness. Director Neal ‘Napoleon’ Jones has created a film which is unrelentingly fun, and manages to remain true to the genre while adding something new, he is one to watch in the future.

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