"The Zompocalypse Therapy Sessions" is a movie that I as a zombie media consumer have mixed feelings about. I'll explain my bullet points later if I put * at the end of them.
Pros: -Really good concept*.
-Interesting Take on the zombie survival types of stories*.
-Had some good themes.
-Some smart survival tips that would be smart to use in a zombie apocalypse.
-Shows some realistic aspects of how people would be in the Zombie apocalypse. (Doug in the beginning panicking and running away).
Cons: -Dialogue slowly decreases in quality as the film goes on.*
-Most of the side characters I can only remember for basically sticking to only one character trait about them.
-Zombie turn time looks inconsistent. If where you get bit does affect how fast you turn, it's not elaborated in the movie.
-The action scenes.*
-The special effects.*
-The end part of the movie.*
-The fake-out death*
-Zombie Spawning.
-The car scene has multiple shots where the windows are inconsistently open or closed.
-A lot of the jokes fell flat for me.
-Re-using of audio takes.
Zompocalypse Therapy Sessions definitely has an interesting take on the typical zombie apocalypse, where we follow this therapist conquer the mental problems of both her moral dilemma of killing zombies who she probably knew at one point, and her agoraphobia as well. It's also nice to see how a therapist would react to a zombie apocalypse happening.
That being said, the film does have a lot of problems. One of which is the interactions between characters. Bob and Erica especially, with the context of the film apparent after watching and getting the context for everything. Bob got angry when she didn't want to go out and scavenge, and it's for some reason a repetitive thing he brings up throughout the movie. And there's other weird interactions.
Then there's the special effects, which were forgivable at first and even not that noticeable, but as time went on and the more they were used, the more cheap they started to look. I know this is a low budget movie so they couldn't afford the best and all that, but if you start using them too much and especially as the focus, they lose some creditability.
The action while not plentiful in the movie (and I would argue that's a good thing since not everyone is suddenly a zombie killing pro once the apocalypse starts), When the action does kick in you can tell when the zombie actors were being directed. Plus I believe the main actress for, if not the whole movie, a majority of the movie tries using the baseball she has like it's a spear. And one action scene was just constant cutting confusion. Like at one point during the scene I got confused on what happened to Erica's bat, as she's suddenly hitting a zombie with pool noodle, which while funny still threw me out of the movie as I had to rewind and figure out why the bat was gone and reappeared again.
Then there's the fake-out death. Where Warren Henry runs into an alley being chased by zombies, he goes off screen, lets out a scream like he got bit or something, and later on in the movie it's revealed that he's perfectly fine. Why did he scream then?
The Ending all together feels rushed, where the patients that were seeing Erica get over their issues and leave their houses to survive. First was Paula, which was fine I suppose. The Zombies definitely lost a lot of threat in the story for me when an old lady (or at least someone who looks like an old lady) can 1v1 a zombie with three hammer swings. Terry's definitively threw me off, in my opinion they could have set it up more possibly. Then the arrival to the cabin felt weird, with the acting just feeling overall being either too much or too little.
Pros: -Really good concept*.
-Interesting Take on the zombie survival types of stories*.
-Had some good themes.
-Some smart survival tips that would be smart to use in a zombie apocalypse.
-Shows some realistic aspects of how people would be in the Zombie apocalypse. (Doug in the beginning panicking and running away).
Cons: -Dialogue slowly decreases in quality as the film goes on.*
-Most of the side characters I can only remember for basically sticking to only one character trait about them.
-Zombie turn time looks inconsistent. If where you get bit does affect how fast you turn, it's not elaborated in the movie.
-The action scenes.*
-The special effects.*
-The end part of the movie.*
-The fake-out death*
-Zombie Spawning.
-The car scene has multiple shots where the windows are inconsistently open or closed.
-A lot of the jokes fell flat for me.
-Re-using of audio takes.
Zompocalypse Therapy Sessions definitely has an interesting take on the typical zombie apocalypse, where we follow this therapist conquer the mental problems of both her moral dilemma of killing zombies who she probably knew at one point, and her agoraphobia as well. It's also nice to see how a therapist would react to a zombie apocalypse happening.
That being said, the film does have a lot of problems. One of which is the interactions between characters. Bob and Erica especially, with the context of the film apparent after watching and getting the context for everything. Bob got angry when she didn't want to go out and scavenge, and it's for some reason a repetitive thing he brings up throughout the movie. And there's other weird interactions.
Then there's the special effects, which were forgivable at first and even not that noticeable, but as time went on and the more they were used, the more cheap they started to look. I know this is a low budget movie so they couldn't afford the best and all that, but if you start using them too much and especially as the focus, they lose some creditability.
The action while not plentiful in the movie (and I would argue that's a good thing since not everyone is suddenly a zombie killing pro once the apocalypse starts), When the action does kick in you can tell when the zombie actors were being directed. Plus I believe the main actress for, if not the whole movie, a majority of the movie tries using the baseball she has like it's a spear. And one action scene was just constant cutting confusion. Like at one point during the scene I got confused on what happened to Erica's bat, as she's suddenly hitting a zombie with pool noodle, which while funny still threw me out of the movie as I had to rewind and figure out why the bat was gone and reappeared again.
Then there's the fake-out death. Where Warren Henry runs into an alley being chased by zombies, he goes off screen, lets out a scream like he got bit or something, and later on in the movie it's revealed that he's perfectly fine. Why did he scream then?
The Ending all together feels rushed, where the patients that were seeing Erica get over their issues and leave their houses to survive. First was Paula, which was fine I suppose. The Zombies definitely lost a lot of threat in the story for me when an old lady (or at least someone who looks like an old lady) can 1v1 a zombie with three hammer swings. Terry's definitively threw me off, in my opinion they could have set it up more possibly. Then the arrival to the cabin felt weird, with the acting just feeling overall being either too much or too little.
