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It’s not every day that I fault a movie for its sheer ambition, and in fact, it’s the thing I least like to fault a movie FOR.  Much better too ambitious than not sufficiently so, and so to ding a movie for being overly ambitious feels downright hypocritical.

And in the case of Halloween Horror Nights short film entrant Lamaze of the Dead, that’s what I have to do.

All hell breaks loose when, in the middle of a lamaze class, Zombie Apocalypse suddenly breaks out.  And for one young couple, it’s going to mean a whole lot more than they bargain for.

Like I said, this movie has a lot more ambition than it should; they’re almost trying to wedge what could have been a ninety minute movie in a space meant for a short film one thirtieth that size.  You can only fold a piece of paper so many times before it can’t be folded further, and this movie illustrates that point nicely.

It’s a great movie, lots of zombie-blasting fun for all, but everything seems to happen so fast that there’s no room for coherent narrative.  But even I acknowledge that the ending is just AWESOME.

The Screenhead Ten Scale, in turn, hands over an eight out of ten to this movie that would make an awesome feature had it just slowed down, caught its breath, and told its story correctly.

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