The Rezort (2015)

(In French, On Cable TV, November 2020) Much as movie zombies end up transforming varied people into the same monster, zombie movies often end up transforming a wide variety of premises into what feels like the same film, with zombie hordes, protagonists being bitten and not much beyond headshots and gore. The Rezort does have an initial spark of interest, as it takes us to a park created in the aftermath of a global zombie apocalypse: After the death of two billion people, someone somehow ended up creating a park where zombies can be hunted for sport. Faster than anyone asking if this was a really a good idea, faster than questioning the numerous similarities with Jurassic Park, the park is sabotaged and our human characters are thrown in the middle of a hungry group of zombies. The rest of the film plays more or less the same as similar movies, leaving the impression that the film is almost exactly the same damn thing as any random zombie film that you can catch on late-night Cable TV. It’s not much of a legacy, even though there were a few elements that could have been developed into something interesting. The sad truth is that zombie movie watchers are a bit like zombies themselves: they see the zombie label, they watch the film—anything going beyond trite zombie movie clichés is far too risky to be contemplated by filmmakers.