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So what happens when you take a lazy filmmaker who wants to use footage from a Zombie Walk and turn it into a movie?  You get something like Swine Flu Zombies.

And in this one, it’s up to a mad scientist to find a cure for an outbreak of the walking dead, and do so in rapid fashion before they overrun the planet.

First, some background.  A Zombie Walk is like a giant ambulatory costume party in which all the attendees dress and act like, well, zombies.  Often these are linked to charitable functions, and they have the added bonus of freaking out anyone who happens to see it and isn’t aware.

The short film built around this, meanwhile, has a few good chuckles and they’re largely intentional, but they’re pretty crass (hurf durf!  the scientist has a funny German name!  Hey, lookit the funny rednecks wranglin’ up them thar zombies!).

Still though, laughs are laughs and Swine Flu Zombies does have them.  But still, being as this movie’s about a third stock footage from a Zombie Walk, there’s only so good it can be.

Thus, the Screenhead Ten Scale hands this rather shoddy, but still funny, short film a five out of ten.

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