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prawnda s i absolutely despise uncorked entertainment and everyone who has had standards low enough to work with them. the cast and crew maybe i can forgive for needing roles and wages. the director though? no such benefits. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/14/25 Full Review m s New favorite zombie movie! New favorite comedy/horror. New favorite xmas movie! Stoners, english party peeps, indie fans, and movie lover that aren't insistent on big budgets this is a must see! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/21/25 Full Review Logan D On Christmas eve, a janitor gets stuck in a women's bathroom stall just as zombies take over his building. A spare but likeable low budget film. I enjoyed the conversation between the janitor and his stall mate. Certainly different for a holiday film. There is an after credits scene. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/10/25 Full Review Audience Member The only positive here is I didn't get bored as I was having so much fun making fun of this film, its ridiculous concept and awful acting. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Hilarious story of a janitor named W.C. who gets stuck in a women's washroom during the zombie apocalypse (get it - WC and he is stuck in a WC). Anyway, most of the movie takes place in a bathroom stall (hence the title) and our beloved WC talks to a woman two stalls over, named Evie. And together they try to come up with a plan to escape alive. Touching ending, lots of fun silly action; very much in the vein of Shaun of the Dead. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member "The Queen's swimming in my toilet." Subgenre: Zombie horror-comedy. C'mon, look at the poster. Story: It's Christmas Eve, and poor WC (GET IT?) is hiding in a ladies bathroom stall after two women come in while he's cleaning. But when a pizza boy "gets rapey under the mistletoe" and leaves a bite mark on one of the ladies? He's literally up shit(ters) creek. I know, but I couldn't resist. FX: Middling. Zombies = white foundation & black eye makeup. Lots of fake blood and latex bite wounds lit too brightly to pass as believable. Thoughts: Well, this does answer the "what happens if you're stuck in the bathroom during the zombie apocalypse" question. Stalled is low budget horror. SUPER low budget. I see this film as one shot late at night at somebody's day job when the boss wasn't looking. And it doesn't help that Our Hero, WC, is such a milquetoast. And not the brightest tool in the shed. (Yes, I mix my metaphors. Don't judge.) And there are some strange, inexplicable moments here - no really, even moreso than tue usual horror stuff - like WC finding a yoooooge dead rat in a ceiling vent, and then picking it up with his bare hands to flush it down the toilet. WHY DID HE PICK UP THAT DEAD RAT WITH HIS BARE HANDS??? And c'mon now, flushing it down the toilet? Like a huge rat would fit. Lest you think it's just one man's survival story, a woman is stuck in another stall, keeping this from being a one-man show. WC skillfully draws a picture of a woman on the wall of his stall, so he has a face to look at as they talk. Does the film use that skill to develop his character? Nup. But do these two bicker, and then bond? Of course they do. That's Story 101, and apparently writer/lead Dan Palmer is able to swing that. Screenplay-wise, there are some nice gags at first. Zombies being fascinated by a person's reflection, a zombie whose costume is too big to fit through the door, and another who tries to decide between a drumstick in his hand and a live human in front of him...these all work. And for folks like me who love dry British humor, it's here in spades. There are even a few twists that could have made this movie something really interesting. But then the plot drags, as if everyone suddenly ran out of ideas. At least it feels as if the ideas ran out. Cue the shuffling undead! But sadly, the boilerplate "will they escape" suspense wasn't enough to keep me invested. There were several points where I considered fast-forwarding, and I checked the Netflix timer at least 8 times to see if the end was near. Chalk this up to a brilliant idea, poorly executed. As the director and writer/star are apparently still starting out in their careers, I hope one day in the near future these great ideas circle around a more solid script. Clichés: - Outbreak! - Crappy office coworkers - Downtrodden hero/lead - Slutty chicks - Out-of-the-blue girl on girl action - Silly character zombies - The ultimate sacrifice - Fantasy sequences - Big break, bungled - Holiday theme - Opposites attract - Accidentally stoned - Animated hallucinations - Thriller dance number - Skulls that go pop - Karma's a bitch - Dramatic irony you see coming a mile away Grade: D I'd like to give it a better grade, but it's too much of a mediocre letdown to even bump it up out of pity. But it's got a crazy premise, and this low-budget fest doesn't completely suck. Well, not completely. http://atomicfangirl.com/2016/02/29/the-horror-stalled/ Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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