In Scream Farm, a big drug deal goes bad and when two cronies need to ditch their dope, they stash it inside the Scream Farm, a student-run haunted house built to raise money for a senior trip. One of the kids happens upon the stash and makes off with a couple of the bags, only this isn’t your run of the mill weed, this turns the users into blood-thirsty zombies. When the boss turns up for his stuff, the zombies turn up for blood and all hell breaks loose.

The acting in Scream Farm fluctuates from sub-par to adequate, but the dialog isn’t so ambitious that the actors get bogged down. Yet, at one point, after her boyfriend describes their lack-luster future in such a crappy small town, a young lady asks “How romantic?” when it was obviously written as more of a sarcastic and rhetorical statement. Most of the poor acting is delivered by short-lived characters, as the director was obviously dealing with an economy of acting skill. The core of the cast do fairly well.

The action sequences are well choreographed and get a good hand from the editing department. There are multi-character fights scenes that work well and are quite impressive for such a low-budget production.

The special effects were rather hit or miss. While the first head shot was expertly executed (no pun intended), the next kill sequence, a zombie neck bite, left something to be desired. The director made good use of special effects gore and editing to produce more than a few rather impressive scenes. They also made use of CGI special effects, some of which I didn’t notice were CGI until I saw the blooper reel.

The zombies looked decent using mostly well placed make-up that sold the look very well and, of course, lots of blood. The zombies were fairly inconsistent though. The first zombie shambles at a pace akin to an old man with a walker, while later zombies run like track stars. Another thing, while the first zombie had a problem walking at a brisk pace, he had no problem with dexterity as he expertly manipulated and wielded a knife, the tool that he chose to kill his victims with. There’s even a zombie that fights a human using the skills of a ninja. I found this disagreeable.

All in all, Scream Farm has a good pace and a fairly solid story. At about 75 minutes long, it kept me interested and didn’t drag at all. Despite some of it’s drawbacks, I found Scream Farm to have many impressive aspects that mark an up and coming movie maker.

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