Virus-32

Do you know that lazy and languid feeling after you have just eaten, or have made a heavy physical effort? You just want to be left alone and chill. Well, writer/director Gustavo Henández apparently thought it was a good idea to make a zombie-movie revolving solely around this little and insignificant gimmick. In "Virus:32", the zombies (or infected people, or whatever) remain in an inactive state of trance for 32 seconds after they devoured some brains or killed a living thing. If you're quick, you can use this period to escape. If not, you're their next supper.

There's very little else to write about this otherwise lame, uninspired, and derivative zombie flick from Uruguay. The film almost entirely takes places in a back-alley sporting complex, where the lead actress is a night security guard. You'll seriously wonder why the place needs security because it's old, ramshackle, and infested with rats. She's trapped inside with her young daughter and a man who insists on delivering his wife's baby, even though she's already infected with the virus.

"Virus: 32" is a non-stop spitfire of the genre's most overused and dreadful clichés. Many things don't make the least bit of sense, the lead characters take dumb decisions, the music score is blatantly stolen from John Murphy's work for 28 Days/Weeks Later, and the climax is beyond pathetic. Did you know you can kill a zombie with a stapler?!?