The Eugenist

This mishmash of perverted science, zombie creatures, government agents and dumb teenagers was viewed under the title THE EUGENIST. A secret bio-warfare lab sequestered in an abandoned school was the hub of experiments to cultivate a virus that would wipe out the world's "bad stock" of people. Unfortunately, when the lab is dismantled the virus remains in the school's ventilation system. Homeless people start squatting there and absorb the virus becoming zombie-like creatures straight out of E.C. Comics and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. A scientist who stayed behind trying to find a cure for the zombie plague also seems to need more living dead people for his experiments. Enter a gaggle of incompetent teens that investigate the school at night and get locked inside, where they encounter the league of slow-moving flesh eaters. While director Tariq Nasheed keeps the movie going at a fast clip, as a co-scenarist he fails us with a well worn plot, and the requisite bunch of idiotic teen characters that can only run but not hide from the zombies, and often conveniently just walk right into their waiting arms. Technical credits are fair -- the lighting makes the school sufficiently spooky -- but the actors are painfully under rehearsed and their dialogue is hard to understand at times.