Tubi Thursday: Pro-Wrestlers vs. Zombies (2014)

 With WrestleMania coming this weekend, why not some Wrestling content?

In this case, a silly Direct-to-Video Film with a bunch of over the hill Wrestlers.
Joy.

The Film begins with shots of people at a local Wrestling Show.

Amongst the group is the late Kevin Sullivan (who isn't officially in the Movie) and TNA's So Cal Val.

Notable to the Plot, however, is the fact that Shane Douglas straight up kills a guy in the ring...and leaves.

The Medic at the Scene just happens to be that guy's Brother.

He uses his money to get the Promoter (and also the Film's Director) to book Shane and some others a 'private Show.'

Our Director looks like Edgar Wright...if he was played by an Actor in a shoddy Biopic.

Also, he's evil now and kills a random lady.

He makes her a Zombie and she makes some more, including out of Shane Douglas' 'family.'

Does that qualify as 'getting their ass franchised?'

The Wrestlers- which include Roddy Piper, Jim Duggan, Matt Hardy and his future wife Reby- arrive at the place....

...before Zombies show up.  What a twist.

Kurt Angle was also invited as a 'surprise.'

That translates to 'we got him last minute and shot his Scenes in a day.'

Yeah, he's barely in this.

The group get split up and killed in various, cheesy ways.

This is a Film which raised its Budget via Kickstarter and Shane Douglas, so don't expect fancy CGI.

Do expect a surprisingly good performance her from Piper.
No, really.

Seriously, his few Scenes of actual emoting are good.

Was he too good for this?  Yes.

He manages to survive to the end with our Final Girl- just like Karl Urban yesterday.
Weird.  

The End.

It was honestly pretty painful, no matter how much I love Pro Wrestlers and cheesy Movies.

For starters, the almost all Nu Metal Soundtrack.  Ouch.
Not even the funny kind of bad music.

The Production and Plot are really cheap.  
It basically just amounts to random Wrestlers running around, sometimes getting a focus Scene and then dying to Zombies.

Outside of Piper, I just did not care.

He is truly the best part of this Film.  He has presence.  He can act here.  He actually feels motivated!

Give him a good Film and you get They Live.  Give him a cheesy, direct-to-video one and you get, well, the other 86% of his Filmography.

I do love the closing shot of Piper in front of an American flag.  Nothing embodies America like a Canadian Scotsman!

This one was just kind of annoying, didn't have great action and wasn't really the fun kind of cheesy.  In fact, here's a reenactment of my face when I realized that I still had over an hour to go in this one...

A Film that wastes a potential idea for more of the same Indy Horror.  I'm sure it was fun to be an Indy Wrestler getting beaten up in zombie makeup by Roddy Piper...but not for me.