Send us Fan Mail An African-American led pair of modern zombie movies from TUBI this time around, my 17th and 18th movie from the streaming channel leaving just three movies for me to watch before I can say that I have completed it. In Bloodthirsty we have Brian and Sarah, a 20-something year old couple of college students about to celebrate their first year anniversary when Sarah is called back into work. When there the zombie shit hits the proverbial fan and the loving couple try to get back to each other amidst the chaos. Ok, not strictly true. Brian picks up Sarah for their anniversary date, but she is called back to work. He drops her off and goes home. At home, the neighbours turn zeke and carnage ensues. He kills a couple with a 20KG weight but mostly runs away, and makes bad choices that gets other people killed. He then drives to Sarah's place of work, where he twice cannot beat a zombie, twice goes down and is gonna be killed, before twice being saved. So much for the hero. In the blurb it talks about him fighting his way across the city to rescue Sarah, when in reality, he just drives from location A to B then back to A then back to B. Profoundly average but still better than Air Shift, and EVERYTHING is done off camera. And I hate that. Urban Flesh Eaters is somewhat better, telling the story of an apartment building that has to come together to beat the zombies. We have widow Cyn and her two kids, her friend Lu, a newcomer who is seen a being an ex-con, a gay brother, an OTT African god-fearing woman, a mad janitor, a madder Whiz Kid, a youtuber and others, not limited to inconsistent zombies. It was really going down from the apartment to the ground floor, then back to the apartment when the zombies swarm in, then back down to the basement when the apartment is overrun, then back up to the apartment when one of the kids loses his asthma inhaler, before going back to the basement to save him, before heading to the roof for the inevitable off camera rescue. Given they used stock footage of NYC combined with a daytime soap opera apartment building they were def not getting a chopper for the finale. There was a lot more going on, too many people at times, Cyn came over as crazy, then ok, then crazy seeing her dead husband, then after supposedly losing a kid almost kissing the con, the kids were good, as were some of the others, but by tomorrow I would have forgotten about it all. In the end Bloodthirsty was a 3.5 at best and Urban Flesh Eaters 4.5. The latter being the better of the two. Neither I would really recommend.
