2007 · horror · comedy · thriller
The Mad
Directed by John Kalangis1h 23m2007
A doctor and his teenage daughter are trapped in a truck stop, and terrorized by a horde of flesh-eating zombies.
Our read: The Mad (2007) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive horror · comedy · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
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“You want a fun zombie horror-comedy trapped with Billy Zane at a diner.”
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