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  DETENTION OF THE DEAD (2012) USA 1hr 27mins Director: Alex Craig Mann "It looks like Rob Zombie raped the entire cast of Gossip Girl and this is their angry love child" - Willow It's a normal day at Lincoln High and the school is business as usual with the exception of the odd severly ill, groaning and shuffling student hanging around. Despite this the students go about their day oblivious to the virus spreading around them. A group of oddball students ranging from the schools head cheerleader Janet (Christa B. Allen), her jock boyfriend Brad (Jayson Blair) and his meathead friend Jimmy (Max Adler) to the lowest of the low with nerd Eddie (Jacob Zacher), goth chick Willow (Alexa Nikolas) and school weed dealer Ash (Justin Chon) all ending up in detention with teacher Mrs. Rumblethorp (Michele Messmer) just as the mystery illness sweeping the school turns into a full blown zombie apocalypse. Will Eddie, who before all of this was too shy to admit his true feelings for Ja

  WARM BODIES (2013) USA/Canada 1hr 38mins Director: Jonathan Levine. "What's wrong with me? I just want to connect. Why can't I connect with people?" - R "They are not becoming vegans!" - Grigio "Don't be creepy, don't be creepy, don't be creepy." - R Sweet zombie Jesus! If the world wasn't saturated enough with an endless supply of dodgy horror movies we also have to deal with the fact that Hollywood insists on sexualising every genre there is. No genre is safe and here we have a movie that would go on to spur on a spate of cringe worthy Rom Zom movies. Aimed at teens desperate for an undead heart throb to swoon over in the aftermath of the TWLIGHT movies I guess. WARM BODIES was originally a novel by Isaac Marion published in 2010 and is a romantic comedy based on Shakespeares' Romeo & Juliet but with a modern zombie twist. Adapted for film in 2013 and directed by Jonathan Levine, it features some young, up and coming ac