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Zoombies  (2016)
Tagline(s):It's Jurassic World of the Dead
 Uncaged, UNDEAD
 Half Animal. Half Zombie. ALL KILLER!
 The Next Strain of Zombie Virus Is Taking Over the Zoo
Nomination Year: 2024
SYNOPSIS: 

A Turn-This-Animal-Into-a-Killer-Zombie virus spreads through a new safari park that's getting ready to open, just when a group of interns and students are being trained. Luckily, the park wasn't yet open to the public, and luckily the virus doesn't seem to affect humans. Not so lucky, however, for the staff trapped in the park with the animals...

Kinda tries to be Jurassic Park Lite. And fails.

Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Smithee Award Winner! Oblivious
Missing Some Deadlions
The interns are talking to the chief adminstrator over the walkie-talkie. While they're talking, the *three* them somehow miss an entire pride of zombie lions surrounding them RIGHT THERE. Impossible!
Worst Special Effect
Zipline
Like a bunch of parks that don't care about liability, this one has a zipline to get across the park instead of, say, gondola cars or a nice monorail. Our protagonists use the zipline...which commits some of the worst greenscreen offenses I've seen in some time. One guy's arms aren't even at full extension as he's clearly standing there phoning it in. It culminates in a juicy Witchboard fall!
Acting Appropriately Stupid
Acting Ape-propriately Stupid
Kifo the gorilla (the last of his kind and Daxton's favorite exhibit) is down! Is he hurt? Despite knowing the animals are all turning into murderous zombies, Daxton rushes out to help...with utterly predictible results.
Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Glenn Miller No, not the big band leader...sadly. The "genius" behind the Zoombies franchise (including a video game) and director of Aquarium of the Dead and Death Aquarium. Hm. 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Ione Butler Lizzy Maia in The Adored; a Widow in the Black Widow movie; Tess in The Sound of Waves. Also really very, very pretty. 
Andrew Asper Gage JJ in In Echo Park; Jason on "Shameless." 
Kim Nielsen Dr. Ellen Rogers Dr. Rogers in the Zoombies and Aquarium of the Dead franchises; the President in Oceans Rising
Marcus Anderson, Jr. Rex Lil' Guap on "Power Book II: Ghost." 
Brianna Joy Chomer Amber Kitty in Sorority Slaughterhouse; Leah Gold in The Book of Leah
Aaron Groben A.J. This guy has an ASTOUNDING number of credits, especially for his age. Wonder why he's not more famous? John in The Gabby Petito Story; Bobby Stanford in Art of the Dead; and the voice of Tick on "Tick and Tock." Plays characters in a lot of Escapely Adventure Box adventures. 
Kaiwi Lyman Daxton AKA "Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau," he played Gutterball on "American Horror Story," "Tony Z" Zapata in Den of Theives, Wade in The Mongolian Connection, and Jackson Shea in American Violence
LaLa Nestor Thea Maddie in Sunday Girl. Zoombies was her first role. 
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