Director: Jonny Campbell
Actors: Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell, Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville
Genre: Comedy/Horror
Rating: MA
‘Cold Storage’ is a quick and fun zombie-comedy, but more
from the prevention/start angle, rather than the ‘Zombieland’ overrun angle. We
start in Western Australia, where a bit of space debris has a mutating fungus,
and Robert (Neeson) & Trini (Manville) are called in to deal with it. Stuff
happens, and it’s then put in literal cold storage in Colorado. 20 years later,
and Teacake/Travis (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell) are working at the no-longer-military-facility
that’s just storage lockers. What could go wrong?
While nothing particularly new happens, the CGI is solid and
the infected animals/people quite grotesque. It effectively plays as a funnier episode
of ‘The Last of Us’, with the infected not really being “zombies”, but rather
short-term carriers. Keery is good and will be interesting if he can jump from ‘Stranger
Things’ into more films. He brings a lot of the humour and energy, and has good
chemistry with Campbell. Neeson is mostly a bit-player, but good to see him not
doing ALL the stunts/saving-the-day!
Solid score and soundtrack, a few little jump scares, but
definitely more comedy-horror than horror. Decent body count and all wrapped-up
in under 100min. Pacing is mostly good and final third is action-packed.
Overall: Solid comedy/horror fun
Gav’s Rating: 3 stars
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