Verdict
Summary
Aside from the clever Zombieworld short film, Dimension Z is a piss poor attempt to cobble some unrelated films together to make a sellable product. Most of the shorts are crummy and unimaginative, and there’s no reason why you should make any attempt to track this one down. It’s a shame, really. Multiple directors, writers, and actors made these films. If you can see Zombieworld out of context, do so.
Synopsis: An anthology of zombie apocalypse short films.
Review: Ah, the cheapskate zombie apocalypse movies! This time they’re condensed into ten or so minutes each, all smashed into a non-related series of shorts, some of which have no business being in a compilation of zombie movies. The first pre-title sequence short has nothing to do with the zombie apocalypse, nope. The second one, however, does. In that one, we see a soldier outwitting a couple of zombies (not so hard to do, folks) in an urban wasteland where he lures them into a warehouse and shoots them point blank range. A stupid short film, honestly. Later, there’s another short about a young woman who is stuck in her apartment as the world undergoes a zombie Armageddon. There’s a dead guy in her bathtub, who comes back to life, and seeing no way out other than suicide, she pulls the trigger on herself. Another lame short. There’s a short film about a woman who is bitten by a zombie and yet while her body undergoes a necrotic degrading, her mind remains intact and her best friend keeps her company while they discuss the ramifications of what is happening to her. An angel visits them and lays the ground rules of the situation, which proves to be helpful to the friend who has to kill her pal. The best of the shorts is titled Zombieworld, which presents a world of zombies. We meet one zombie man/dad/husband, whose point of view we share as he observes his world slowly succumb to a human apocalypse. From one moment to the next, zombies turn to humans, and suddenly the zombie man/dad/husband finds himself on the run after he’s forced to kill his daughter who has turned. But no matter how far he runs, there’s nowhere left for him to go as the whole world turns human, leaving him one of the last of his kind.
Aside from the clever Zombieworld short film, Dimension Z is a piss poor attempt to cobble some unrelated films together to make a sellable product. Most of the shorts are crummy and unimaginative, and there’s no reason why you should make any attempt to track this one down. It’s a shame, really. Multiple directors, writers, and actors made these films. If you can see Zombieworld out of context, do so.