The Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse

The Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse

Three scouts, on the eve of their last camp-out, discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak.
A reckless janitor accidentally releases a zombie from a laboratory of research. Meanwhile, the teenagers scouts Ben Goudy and Carter Grant decide to camp for the last time since they are too old to be scouts. The problem is that they do not want to harm the feelings of their friend Augie Foster and the Scout Leader Rogers. They have a flat tire after hitting a deer on the road and Carter's sister Kendall Grant, her boyfriend and her friend Chloe stop their Jeep to see whether they need a ride. They invite Ben and Carter to go to a party in the night. The two scouts leave the camping during the night to go to the party. When they drive through the town, they do not see a living soul and they decide to visit a night-club since the bouncer is not at the door. They discover that people have turned into zombies and they team-up with Ben's recent acquaintance Denise Russo, who is bartender in the nightclub, and Augie that was left alone at the camp and came to the town. Soon they discover that the non-infected inhabitants have been evacuated and the town will be bombed by the government. They decide to rescue Kendall but they find that the address her boyfriend gave to them is wrong. What can they do to save Kendall?
I didn&#39;t go to scouts. In fact, I only ever went to one meeting of cubs, where I spent most of my time trying to pull a paper &#39;tail&#39; out of the back of the other boys&#39; shorts whilst avoiding having the same happen to me (they made me do it—it was supposed to be fun). I begged my mother never to send me there again.<br/><br/>Teenagers Ben (Tye Sheridan) and Carter (Logan Miller), on the other hand, have been scouts for almost as long as they can remember, but have serious reservations about continuing, concerned that it will kill their chances with the fairer sex. However, when a zombie outbreak occurs while they are on a camp-out with pal Augie (Joey Morgan), the lads get a chance to put into practise everything they have learnt while scouting, and realise that doing what they enjoy most is more important than how others perceive them.<br/><br/>Scout&#39;s Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse is undeniably crass: there&#39;s no meta, post-modernistic, self-referential irony involved (whatever that means)—just lots of gags about bums, tits and willies, which, as far as I&#39;m concerned, equals a good time. This film managed to do what so many other horror comedies have failed to do—make me snort out loud with laughter more than once—and for that reason alone I hold it in high regard, but it also delivers those other two important ingredients of the genre: hot women and outrageous splatter.<br/><br/>Amongst the babes on hand are Halston Sage and Niki Koss as sexy high school pals Kendall and Chloe (the latter going beyond the call of duty for a scene where she receives oral pleasure from a zombie), a top heavy female cop turned zombie (actress unknown) who provides one of the funniest moments when her shirt is torn off, and gorgeous Sarah Dumont, who plays sexy cocktail waitress Denise and automatically enters my &#39;horror hotties in a tight white vest&#39; Top Ten.<br/><br/>As far as the gore is concerned, there are lots of exploding heads (with one particularly jaw-dropping slow motion shot towards the end of the film) and plenty of severed appendages, including a hilarious scene involving the putrid penis of an elderly zombie. Although a fair amount of the effects are CGI, they are well executed.<br/><br/>With a film as gloriously daft as this, it&#39;s fairly pointless to pick holes in the script, so don&#39;t bother: just sit back and enjoy the whole ridiculous ride, from the silly pre-credits sequence involving a hapless janitor who likes to boogie, to the splatteric final act that ends with a bang.
This is a typical boy&#39;s comedy-horror romp. Expect nob gags, cheesy sound tracks, high-fives, innuendos and tall women in tight tops.<br/><br/>I have seen a few of these in my time so I am a little fatigued and jaded with the genre. But as they go this is a pretty good one. <br/><br/>There is a period of build up where the characters are given a bit of depth. The production, acting and effects are all pretty good. The plot is OK but pretty much irrelevant.<br/><br/>There is no real horror, no real nudity (except a few jiggling zombie boobs), and no real violence. This is all pretty tame, good natured fun.<br/><br/>It makes me very sad to admit perhaps I have just grown out of this type of thing (I am outside the target demographic for sure) <br/><br/>This could be a pretty solid watch for a younger audience who is new to the genre.
This “Guide” is not for everyone; it gleefully earns its hard-R rating. But folks who enjoy their teen humor splattered with zombie guts won’t be disappointed. Scout’s honor.
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