A Cadaver Christmas has arrived on Blu-ray and is available now from Scream Team Releasing. Special features:
New Audio Commentary by Joe Zerull and Daniel Rairdine-Hale
Making of Featurette
Outtakes
Trailer
Four Short Films by Joe Zerull:
The Newscaster
Redhead
Cheese Fries
Dream Board Nightmare
Region Free
Order via the Scream Team website
Blu-ray trailer:
Meanwhile, here’s our previous coverage of the movie:
‘Zombies for the holidays’
A Cadaver Christmas is a 2011 American comedy horror film about an unlikely band of heroes charged with the task of saving the world from an army of living corpses. Also known as Zombies at Christmas.
Directed by Joe Zerull from a screenplay co-written with Daniel Rairdin-Hale and Hanlon Smith-Dorsey who also star.
Plot:
United by terrifying and bizarre circumstances, the janitor, the drunk, the bartender, the cop, his perp, and the student security guard must fight to undo the professor’s work.
A dark force is at work in the cadaver lab this Christmas and this unconventional band of heroes are the only hope the world has against an army of living corpses that are quickly recruiting new members….
Reviews:
“The film focuses mostly on the slapstick comedy element and doesn’t have a lot of gory scenes. The comedy is hit or miss and I didn’t think it was very funny. It should be said that I rarely do find that horror/comedy films work very well though, so I’m not surprised that I didn’t care much for this one.” Cinema Terror
” …pretty decent amounts of gore […] it does have a few flaws in that the comedic nature wears thin after a while with some of the jokes losing their luster and the whole enterprise being loaded by a rather preposterous storyline that gets almost no fleshing out and remains ludicrous upon scrutiny. Otherwise, there’s a whole lot to like here.” Don’s World of Horror and Exploitation
“Mixing elements of Braindead and Feast, with a few other splatterific titles referenced along the way, A Cadaver Christmas tries hard for most of its runtime, but it becomes clear after the first few scenes that this is a slight film built around a few set-pieces that aren’t as memorable as they were in the minds of the men writing the script…” For It Is Man’s Number
“The lead actor/co-writer Daniel Rairdin-Hale, who plays the janitor truly steals the show. His performance is intense. His tenacity almost is absurd in its own in comparison to the other actors. The secondary characters seemed to ooze of independent budgeted film but Hale truly ups the ante in manner that could have made this production an entirely different product if matched with other noteworthy cast.” ★★★ Horror News
“It’s not very SFX heavy. It doesn’t need to be. I’m sure that decision was an intentional one to get the desired effect that this movie could have been shot in any time period. A Cadaver Christmas is so over the top you will find yourself howling with laughter in several spots in this film.” Horror Thriller
“Co-scenarist Hale does the angry-nerd-turned-superhero to perfection, but Smith-Dorsey is particularly funny as the dimmest bulb onscreen. Feature directorial debutant Joe Zerull keeps the silly tale just pacey, deadpan and loopy enough to buoy it several degrees above Troma-style low camp.” Variety
“There are some great scenes that get punctuated by some genuinely funny lines (“He stabbed Eddie in the neck with a desk!”) and some visual gags that actually made me laugh. Credit should also be given to Hale (who also produced as Daniel Rairdin-Hale) for his committed performance as the janitor.” Video Junkie
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