646f9e108c While battling the Nottingham Sheriff, Robin Hood and his band of merry men are slain. Distraught over these horrific turn of events Marian and Little John attempt to resurrect Robin and his comrades. In doing so they inadvertently turned the one-time heroes into the living dead and worse, the ghostly reincarnations are now out for blood. I have waited to see this movie for almost 2 years, and was under the impression it was a horror movie…it is not. I watched most of the movie confused until I finally laughed out loud. Oh, I exclaimed, this is a comedy. If only Kane Hodder had been in the entire movie, he had me rolling with laughter, he is very funny. If you enjoy interactive movies, the kind where you audibly argue with the characters and shake your head wondering what kind of idiot idea that was to try an rob the Sheriff of Nottingham, then you will enjoy this movie. If you like to critique poor acting, bad costumes an horrible dubbing, this is your movie. However, the film quality seems nice with beautiful scenery and nice music, except the singing part. Okay… First things first - what I was expecting was a professional movie on an impressively low budget, possibly tongue in cheek, similar to such recent Scandinavian greatsRare Exports and Troll Hunter. What I got was actually more likevery earnest student film made, it would seem, with virtually no budget at all. That being said, and given what it is, it was actually very good!<br/><br/>While the acting wasn&#39;t the best I have ever seen, it was at least forgivable. It sounded like a lot of the dialogue was dubbed but their lips were matching the words so I assume it was re-recorded after filming with the actors lip-syncing their own lines. I understand this is done quite a lot in mainstream movies too but probably something in the way it is done makes this less noticeable. There seemed to be very little thought gone into the casting beyond the four leads (Robin, Marian, Sheriff and Little John), throwing up such odditiesthe wicked old witch being played by an obviously young woman, giving the whole thing a &quot;school play&quot; kind of feel but again, after the first half hour or so I stopped noticing and just enjoyed the story.<br/><br/>The story itself, I thought, was very intriguing and well-written. I would say that the writer was a fan of the 80s &quot;Robin of Sherwood&quot; series. There were a few odd elements which seemed to have been put in just for the sake of it, resulting in some of the scenes which were clearly supposed to be emotionally charged just seeming a little odd. Otherwise, the story was engaging and quite original although I could have done with a little less throwing magic potions at the monsters while saying nonsense words - such things may work in video games but no so much in movies. I won&#39;t say much more about the story in case people want to watch it for themselves.<br/><br/>The costumes seemed most likely to be whatever the actors (sourced from local re-enactment groups perhaps?) already had so there was quite a mix from impressive and historically plausible to some that were not far off a Robin Hood Halloween fancy dress costume but I did not find thisdistractingI thought I might. The forest where most of the action took place was beautiful and the camera-man made good use of it with some lovely shots. The Castle, on the other hand, was mostly a ruin and looked like it, rather than a real, active castle. It reminded me a little of 70s Jesus Christ Superstar movie where the actors played out the scenes in the ruins. This, I&#39;m afraid, spoiled my enjoyment a little.<br/><br/>When the promised zombies put in an appearance, their make-up is very impressive for the non-existent budget. There are occasional scenes with proper &quot;zombie makeup&quot; in close-up but mostly the are just made up to look corpse-like, with blackened skin from the congealed blood. They were surprising effective which is why it was a little odd to see a few later on wearing &quot;monster masks&quot; with orc-like features! Oh well… There was very little in the way of special effects but the two scenes that made use of them were very well done indeed. One involved a very graphic decapitation and the other involved a zombie ripping off a victim&#39;s arm and then eating parts of it. I&#39;m tempted to say that any budget they had was used on these scenes alone which was a bit of a pity but I guess they were fun to do!<br/><br/>So, in conclusion, I really did enjoy this movie and will be watching it again. If you are expecting a professional horror movie then you will be disappointed but if you approach it from the point of view that it&#39;s made by amateurs with little or no money you will find it to be a very enjoyable and entertaining way to spend pass a couple of hours.
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