Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

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Cast & Crew

Tye Sheridan

Ben Goudy

Logan Miller

Carter Grant

Joey Morgan

Augie Foster

Sarah Dumont

Denise Russo

David Koechner

Scout Leader Rogers

Halston Sage

Kendall Grant

Cloris Leachman

Miss Fielder

Niki Koss

Chloe

Hiram A. Murray

Corporal Reeves

Lukas Gage

Travis

Drew Droege

Drunk Man

Patrick Schwarzenegger

Jeff

Blake Anderson

Ron the Janitor

Elle Evans

Amber

Christopher Landon

Director

Carrie Lee Wilson

Screenwriter

Emi Mochizuki

Screenwriter

Christopher Landon

Screenwriter

Todd Garner

Producer

Andy Fickman

Producer

Samson Mucke

Executive Producer

Sean Robins

Executive Producer

Bryan Brucks

Executive Producer

Brandon Trost

Cinematographer

Jim Page

Film Editing

Matthew Margeson

Original Music

Nathan Amondson

Production Design

William Budge

Art Director

Fontaine Beauchamp Hebb

Set Decoration

Mary Lou Lim

Costume Design

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Audience Reviews for Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

• Oct 08, 2018

  Literally the very last line of the entire movie made me laugh, that was the first time I'd laughed too.

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  Super Reviewer
• Jan 25, 2016

  Well this came outta nowhere, in fact it hasn't even been that long since I discovered its existence. Love the films title, easily the main thing that lures you in, it intrigues and you want to know more. It totally has that cheesy, tacky, low rent, B-movie vibe in the title alone, on one hand that does help the movie because you instantly know what to expect, on the other it can also hinder the movie because its yet another low rent, B-movie zombie flick, and there's a shit-tonne of those around. The story sees a small group of teenage boys who are on the cusp of actually growing up, yet they are also still in the Scouts. Two of the lads are thinking of quitting Scouts for obvious reasons I don't need to go into here, whilst the third chubby lad loves the Scouts and wants to carry on. So that's the basis for their little story arc struggles. At the same time in typically glorious 80's fashion, in some kind of local bio-chemical testing company or whatever, a cleaner accidentally lets loose (or wakes up) a zombie who in turn starts the aforementioned apocalypse. Before you can say, help my intestines are being ripped out and eaten by some rotting, ravenous, cannibalistic, decaying human zombie from hell! there are rotting, ravenous, cannibalistic, decaying human zombies everywhere...but not necessarily from hell. Now I may have said this before in other top quality reviews, but I'm not a huge zombie fan, in fact I find these movies generally terrible and all the same. That being said I do like the odd classic such as [i]Return of the Living Dead[/i] franchise, and I appreciate the effectiveness in films like '28 Days Later'. I will say right here right now, I have never liked the Romero zombie films, there I said it, OK well maybe 'Dawn of the Dead'. Anyway me being an 80's child and loving the comedy horror genre, this really did appeal to me despite the zombie factor. You can tell from the films poster that they have clearly gone down that 80's route, personally I think you can see clear homages to movies like 'Monster Squad', 'Fright Night', hell even 'The Goonies' to a degree. Its the perfect storm if you ask me, tried and tested, young teenage boys against monsters, add lots of cheeky, rude, infantile gags and voila! instant smutty horror porn. The action all kicks off very quickly too, the opening intro sequence within this sterile, white walled testing company doesn't hold back. The cleaner is yet another young stoner type with ridiculous hair, in fact I thought he was one of the main protagonists. Anyway this sequence doesn't really do anything original but what it does is really effective and quite funny to boot. Of course its all stupid, this dumb cleaner starts poking around in the lab and fiddling with things...because of course you'd do that in a lab where its clearly obvious you shouldn't touch anything. He accidentally reanimates this zombie after thinking it was merely a sick person on life support, but the little gross-out sequence where he does this was a highlight. Nice visual gag utilising Tic-Tacs and a brilliant shock moment that seems to homage John Carpenter 1982 version of 'The Thing'. All the while a whitecoat lab technician is trying to get some crisps out of a vending machine, whilst the horror plays out behind him through an internal window. Of course you should know how this film is gonna play out but if you didn't the intro will certainly et you straight. As I said there isn't anything particularly original here, but that's not a bad thing in this instance. The young lads are you're typical array of stereotypical young boys, one being smart, sensible and thoughtful, the leader. Another being more of a loose cannon, prone to getting into trouble, lax when it comes to things like having a conscience and obsessed with porn (well they all are). Lastly the third being an overweight, ginger who is also smart but in more of a nerdy way, he's also very sensitive and wears his heart on his sleeve. I've never heard of these three guys that play the characters but I enjoyed their camaraderie and hijinks. They all worked pretty well together and were relatively amusing at times, amusing not hilariously funny. They also, naturally, have a sexy female on their side, again never heard of her but she's undoubtedly super hot and blonde. This did feel totally generic in the sense that of course you need a sexy chick in tight jean cut-off's going round blowing zombie heads off, its just a male requirement. What we see throughout the movie is nothing you haven't seen before lets be honest, again originality isn't the top priority here. So expect lots and lots of blood and gore as the small team go around shooting zombies in the head, cutting heads off blah blah blah...you all know. The main hook for the movie is essentially the fact that the boys are all Scouts sooo...that's just different isn't it, they use their Scout skills to survive and kill zombies. Its a neat little concept for sure but really all you're seeing is three guys equipping themselves with various regular household/DIY/garden items and modifying them to kill, or not as the case may be. So you get a little 'Commando' tooling up montage homage which damn near every horror comedy tends to have at some point. I quite liked the brief moment where the camera zooms in on each Scout badge skill as they construct their weapons, nice usage of gimmicky idea there. Its also pretty dumb in places which is no surprise, the guys manage to get a hold of a flippin' Humvee at one point, probably the ultimate vehicle to have during this type of apocalypse, yet they don't really utilise it. Plus they could of driven off to safety at any point in the film really, to hell with all the teens at the rave pfft! Plenty of cliches throughout too of course, like the grumpy old lady that hassles the boys at the start, well they naturally get to behead her as a zombie later on because...little old lady revenge cliche. I think the problem here is everyone knows exactly what to expect, everyone knows exactly what their gonna see, and while that's not all bad, its just old hat I'm afraid. The humour is there but its not really in your face good, it tickles you but that's it. Perfect example, whilst trying to escape from a window ledge high up, one of the boys grabs onto an elderly zombies cock to stop himself from falling. Said cock gets stretched out like a piece of elastic (exposing its fakeness) before splitting and breaking off. Now clearly this was supposed to be a funny sight gag...but it wasn't, it was kinda lame and fake looking. This is how the comedy tends to be in general really, little things, like the boys getting all super excited over seeing a pair of big zombie tits, or going through a girls underwear draw (really?) or simply seeing a strip joint etc...I get that its supposed to be juvenile humour, that's the aim, but maybe I'm too old for this now because it just seemed very lame to me. I have moaned quite a bit about the obvious cliches and unoriginal content strewn throughout this movie, this is true. That being said I did still find myself enjoying this chaotic romp for what its worth. The film knows what it wants to be and nails that aspect of it, it doesn't ever pretend to be anything more that what it is, although it does get dangerously close to being too serious in places. I think it is very 80's which I love, I do like the Scout angle, the main protagonists are likeable and the girls are uber hot no doubt. The continuous joke of seeing zombified Scout master David Koechner stumbling about desperately trying to eat someone was reasonably funny, it sums up the whole comedy aspect really, close but ultimately just missing the mark. Now waiting for the inevitable Girl Guides version with tonnes of risque, underage type humour and sexual innuendos aplenty.

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  Super Reviewer
• Dec 27, 2015

  First things first, I just gotta point out that the poster to this movie, at least on this site, is actually pretty cool. Secondly, for what I was expecting from this movie, this wasn't actually a half-bad movie. Of course the peak of these zom-coms is Shaun of the Dead, and Zombieland if you're looking for just American movies, I don't actually count Evil Dead 2 as part of that genre, but I can see how people would put it in there. The point is that there really seems to be no point in trying anymore since the peak of this type of movie is 10 years in the past. I guess some hope that they can achieve that greatness and I don't blame them for that, we need people to try to top what came before and I'm all for it, but I don't think this movie had such lofty ambitions. I don't wanna say that it gets by on the bare minimum, because I do think that there was at least some effort to try to make this movie into something good, it just feels that not everything came together as smoothly as they were planned. This is pretty much a sex zom-com and it's not what one would call the most inspired of sex comedies. Again, I don't wanna say it's lazy, but it relies on the typical sex comedy cliches. Movies like Superbad worked because, while you did have a lot of sex jokes, there was also some real strong character development and interactions, something which this film does not have. The cast is solid enough, of course, but there's never that feeling that they're actually lifelong friends. Ben and Carter feel like they've outgrown being scouts, but stay on for the sake of their dorky, but well-meaning, friend Augie. They ditched Augie during a camping trip to go to a secret senior party. So, at least, they're trying to do some character stuff. It's not great, but at least they're trying something. I will say, though, that the gore in the movie does look excellent. It's obviously done with computer effects, but they do a great job at not making it look like it's CG, so great job on that front and I'd say that that was my favorite part of the movie. The gore really is top notch. I liked the tone of the movie, it doesn't take itself too seriously. This is also a fairly fast-paced movie, they never stick around in one place for too long, and it makes this infinitely more watchable. But, honestly, I'm really struggling to remember a lot from this movie, other than a lot of teen boys screaming like teen girls. That's not necessarily funny, but it's what I remember the most because they did this a lot of times throughout the film. So that tells you all you need to know. It's a decent movie, with a solid cast, but there's nothing about that's outstanding or particularly memorable. Because of that, I can't really recommend it, unless you know what you're getting yourself into. Decent, not great.

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  jesse o Super Reviewer
• Dec 22, 2015

  In a genre that's as overcrowded as this, it's important to have something that makes you stand out from the pack. Scouts Guide went with zombie cats. That kind of lets you know where this movie stands on scale of quality zombiefied entertainment. Scouts Guide is like the Superbad of zombie apocalypses. It's not exactly the scenario that is screaming out for a zombie makeover, but someone went with it and the results are as you'd expect. Familiar gross out clichés, familiar genre beats and familiar straight to DVD gags - zombie cats excepted - just makes Scouts Guide ho-hum in either the comedy or horror fields. The intentions are good, but the zany title never fully rises to the occasion and delivers the kind of movie you'd really want to see here.

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