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Since a few years already, I deliberately stopped watching zombie comedies, simply because there are too many of them and the vast majority aren't very funny. Of course, I had to make an exception for the very first zombie splatter comedy produced in my home country Belgium! Admittedly it isn't much better than the rest, but at least it also isn't worse, the cast contains a bunch of familiar faces (if you're from Flanders, that is) and there are a handful of deliciously absurd and grotesque gory sequences, which we really aren't used to seeing in Belgian cinema. Seriously, I'm still surprised this film received funding from the VAF (a Belgian governmental institute that decides which cultural projects receive financial support), since usually only stern and tragic family dramas receive funding.

The set-up is very light-headed. The gorgeous but insecure Alison is on her way to a dubious plastic surgery clinic in a non-specified Eastern European country to get a breast reduction. With her are her surgery-addicted mother Sylvia and her clumsy and geeky boyfriend Michael who spontaneously starts vomiting when he sees blood. At the clinic, things go horribly wrong since the head doctor's experimental rejuvenating serum actually turns people into zombies, and Michael unknowingly lets patient zero escape. What follow is a rundown of typically cliched and derivative zombie situations, while the lead characters get munched in order of obnoxiousness. There are a handful of inventive death sequences, but that is a requirement in every zombie comedy, I suppose. The funniest parts include the OTT Slavic accents used by renowned Belgian actors, and the fact that Alison repeatedly asks "ça va, Poepie?" (roughly translated: "Are you ok, sweetie?") every time when her blundering boyfriend hits his head, trips over his own feet or accidentally injects himself with needles.

PS: yes, that shoddy surgeon operating with extremely loud music in his OR is the world-famous DJ Dimitri Vegas.

Well the movie had 'Facelifsts, boob jobs and zombies' brandished on the cover, that alone was more than enough to catch my attention. Anything even remotely zombiesque and I am there like a gorehound.

I hadn't heard about this Belgian zombie movie from director Lars Damoiseaux before now in 2020, when I was presented with the chance to sit down and watch it. Needless to say, that with my admiration of the zombie genre and craving for gore, that I immediately sat down to watch "Yummy" without any questions asked.

First and foremost, I must say that "Yummy" most definitely put Belgium on the zombie movie map. Without a doubt, because this movie was surprisingly enjoyable and very watchable.

The storyline was good, and actually managed to be original enough to make itself stand out in the sea of zombie movies that are readily available. I particularly liked how writers Lars Damoiseaux and Eveline Hagenbeek managed to incorporate comedy and subtle jabs at today's insane obsession with achieving the perfect look by cosmetic surgery. It was just glorious and worked out so well.

"Yummy" was exactly that; yummy! Well, for a gorehounds perspective - or from a certain point of view if you want to make a pop culture reference to another movie. There was a great amount of blood, gore and mayhem throughout the movie to make even a seasoned horror veteran such as myself happy.

The character gallery in the movie was also good, there was a good mixture of various characters, some stereotypical and archetypical for zombie movies, while others were quite original. And that definitely added a good layer to the movie. And the fact that they had a great cast was certainly also bringing more conviction to the movie.

I enjoyed the cast in the movie, as they were all unfamiliar faces to me. I enjoy watching new faces in movies, as there are no associations to previously portrayed characters in other movies. And the fact that the actors and actresses in "Yummy" were all doing good jobs with their individual roles and characters was just such a good thing.

And on to the good part; the zombies! Yeah, this being a zombie movie, of course there was bound to be zombies. Duh! Now, let me just be the first to applaud the special effects and make-up teams here, because "Yummy" had some very yummy zombies. I mean that in a sarcastic way, of course. The zombies were great in the movie, lots of variation to the individual designs, and the zombie make-up and prosthetics were just great. And as a zombie movie, then having gory effects and realistic gore is a must, and they definitely managed that here. So two rotting thumbs up, way, way up here for the special effects and make-up crews.

"Yummy" was a nice surprise of a movie, and a much welcomed addition to the zombie movie collection. If you haven't already seen this 2019 movie, I strongly and highly recommend that you do so, because this is how you make a good zombie movie.

My rating of "Yummy" receives a very well-deserved seven out of ten stars.

One of the better comedic zombie movies to come out lately. Not plagued with the rapid-fire, snarky, annoying dialog that America has been putting out. Fun, well acted, well directed.

In the zombie genre Yummy definitely has its place. There is a lot of gore, a lot of blood and guts spilling out, and the make-up artists did a good job with their creations. As for the story it's just what you could expect when watching a zombie movie, nothing too serious, just endless bloody fun. As a Belgian I was surprised they made a movie like this one. Belgians don't make a lot of movies but when they do it's most of the time good if not excellent, and so is this one, a good fast paced gore movie à la Braindead. Gore and horror is certainly not the kind of movies that gets sponsored in Belgium so it was a nice surprise they gave it a shot. A good movie with unknown but decent actors to me, that is if you like this genre of entertainment.

A young med schools dropout takes his lovely and well endowed girlfriend to a dodgy hospital for a breast reduction but things don't go according to plan. This is a fun zombie horror set in an Eastern European plastic surgery hospital but thats about the extent of it. If you go in expecting nothing more then you'll have fun. Think Dead Snow but set in a hospital and with patient zombies instead of nazi zombies and you'll have a fair idea of what you are getting yourself into. The young male lead and his aversion to blood makes him a fairly useless hero in this situation and so we get something different from your usual lead male heroics. A wide range of characters including the girlfriend, her superficial mother, some creepy doctors and sleazy medical personnel keep things interesting but it still never reaches much higher than can be expected from the premise.

To be honest I anticipated less, and got more than I could have possible been led to expect. This movie is actually pretty solid and entertaining. The acting is better than expected, the premise is better than expected, the characters (while flat) are better than expected, and the effects are pretty well done. The humor is generally low brow and bawdy but even that is not too bad for what it is, and the ending is actually pretty good even if somewhat implausible. I picked this flick on a whim expecting a truly trashy zombie romp, and instead found a serious genre zombie comedy that was a good cut above much of what is released all too often now.

If you want good old fashioned zombie gore with some cheap sex jokes, some over the top absurdity, and even a reasonably decent premise to be made into a movie, then you can do much worse than to give this movie an hour and a half of your time.

The movie is pretty much what I expected: a horror movie that doesn't take itself too seriously. There is humor in it that works most of the time. Though for a horror movie it's actually not that explicit: real gore is off camera mostly, you actually don't see that much. At a certain moment a head is bashed in with a fire extinguisher, but you only see the blood splatter, not the head being bashed in. They should have gone the 'braindead/dead alive' route with much over the top gore, that would add to the comedy and make it funnier. The 90 minutes go by smoothly and it's a decent watch but don't expect it to be a horror classic.

Wow, this movie is so abysmally bad, I'm not even sure what to say. It's not shy about the gore, but that's about all it has. There's no plot, just a bunch of people running around getting chased by zombies. The raunchy humor is at roughly the 8th grade level. It's a basic zombie film, like countless others before it, that brings nothing new to the table. Which is sad, considering how great the genre can be. Consider Train to Busan, 28 Days Later or even the low budget Contracted; they took the traditional theme and made it into something fresh and horrifying. If you've seen as many zombie films as I have, Yummy is a snooze fest, a bland clone of so many others.

Suspending your disbelief is one thing (it's zombies for crying out loud), not caring about cliches another. Also apart from this being horror it also is a comedy. A mixture that doesn't sit well with some people. So if you have a problem with that, don't even bother to watch this.

Otherwise it is a fun watch, with plenty of blood and some nudity too. It is silly and it does delve into cliches from time to time. But it's just here to entertain and let you have fun. Relax, sit back and enjoy it

Not sure about this, it is that odd horror / comedy genre that I feel is very difficult to pull off.

In any case they were close here, some parts were alright but really most of the jokes were on the juvenile side. I think what made this poor however was the lack of any sort of plot direction. I mean if I look at a great zombie film 'World War Z' there is a distinct plot and goal for the protagonist.

This move sets up as a zombie flick but in reality is a slasher movie, one of those really dumbed down ones where the crazies chase the stupid teens around until they all die. Because of that I got bored very fast.

4/10 I think with some work they could achieve better, just add some actual story beats and character details.

Whats not to like? Very funny and gory. Thought it was a blast all the way through. The characters are hilarious.

The movie came out good, combining a zombie and slasher with a hint of comedy.

The Dutch couple Alison (Maaike Neuville) and Michael (Bart Hollanders) travel by car with Alison's mother Sylvia (Annick Christiaens) to a hospital in the Easter Europe. Alison wants a breast reduction and Sylvia a plastic surgery and the hospital of Dr. K (Eric Godon) is cheaper and cheaper. They are welcomed by his assistant, Janja (Clara Cleymans), who shows the hospital for them. They also meet the womanizer driver Daniel (Benjamin Ramon), who hits on Alison. Michael is a former medical student, who quit the course since he has hemophobia. While Alison is preparing for the surgery, Daniel invites Michael to visit the hospital. But Daniel is a junkie and is indeed trying to rob drugs for his use. The clumsy Michael sees a woman tied up to a stretcher with a mask, and he removes her mask. The woman is a monster, and Michael and Daniel flee from the room. However, the woman uses her teeth to chew the straps that are holding her and goes to the hospital area, turning staff and patients into zombies and creating a havoc.

"Yummy" (2019) is a Belgian gore festival in the style of Peter Jackson's "Braindead" (1992). Viewer that likes this type of movie will certainly enjoy "Yummy". The plot is well-written, with good explanation for the patient zero that Michael releases. The dark humor perfectly works. The clumsy Michael is a stupid character and loser that always chooses the wrong action. Dr. K, Janja and Daniel are the villains, highlighting the junkie Daniel. The make-up and special effects are excellent Alison should have survived, but anyway the ironic conclusion is adequate for the story. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "UTI Zumbi" ("Zombie ICU")

It is a good zombie movie, the production is good, the acting is acceptable, the gore scenes are very impressible and very realistic, much better than some Hollywood movies. What I didn't like and the reason I don't rate this movie 8 is because the unnecessary scenes of comedy, if you produce a horror/comedy movie you have to make sure it works throughout the movie (like Zombieland, Scout Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse etc), that bits of comedy ruined the movie, because it is a serious and nice zombie movie but getting rid of those unnecessary comedy could make this movie even better, it is like the director's sons wrote in those part of the plot. Congratulations to Belgium producers, it is a watchable movie for a raining weekend.

Decent little zombie flick. Not the best, but certainly not the worst by a long shot. You get a good dose of zombie gore and all that goes with it. In a small way it reminded of Dead Alive. Just way darker in charachters and ending. I would recommend it to any who enjoy rip'em up zombie flicks.

When I sat down to watch this movie, I thought that surely by now the zombie cycle has completely played out. There can't be even the faintest possibility that a zombie movie will do anything new. After all, every possible zombie manifestation, zombie situation, and zombie kill has been thoroughly explored, repeated, and exhausted. Even, I thought to myself, every ounce of zombie related black humor has been squeezed from the genre, so that there is absolutely nothing left to be done with it.

After watching this movie, I now know that I was right.

I enjoy watching movies of this genre, and it was quite a pleasure to come across this gem. The plot is interesting and has its many brilliant moments, camerawork and CG are good, acting is also excellent, as well as the eastern European setting in its concrete grittiness and music - aah the music is also brilliant and quite on pont - not sure if its Macedonian, or Bulgarian - but quite on point. All in all - very enjoyable movie - Kudos! Will watch again.

Personally I'm finding it very difficult to find a really enjoyable movie made in 2019 as they are all too cliche. Yummy has is just so bland. Boobs and blood are pretty much the high and low of this zombie flick, I don't think there was actually a truly amusing moment. None of the actors were in any way funny.

As a Romero fanboy of nearly 40 years, I feel somewhat qualified to critique all things zombie. Of course, about 75% of all things zombie aren't even worth your 90 minutes but on occasion, a little gem appears.

This movie was obviously made with heart and it shows. Sure, check your brain at the door, it's wacky but there are some truly impressive scenes, both comedically and in terms of gore, tension and absurdity.

Going in with the lowest of expectations, I found the opening scenes to be suprisingly engaging, wierd and funny. The first act as a whole is pretty great. It does feel a big saggy in places and I could list a whole bunch of gripes (shut the door behind you in a zombie outbreak) but overall, it's a blast.

No spolers here, the story isn't really worth dissection but I loved the beginning and end the most.

Definitely worth a midnight viewing. Great job by all involved.

This movie is a primer on why you should never get your breasts reduced.

No seriously, this movie is your basic zombie movie set in a semi-sketchy clinic in an unspecified eastern European country.

There are a few of fun kills and some well-rendered suspenseful sequences, but basically, there's nothing here you haven't seen before. It's free on Shudder right now, so if you're a subscriber, it won't cost you anything to watch. That's good. If you've got a couple of hours to kill, watch it. Don't pay to watch it.

And never make your boobs smaller. You'll just end up initiating a zombie apocalypse, and ruining the fun for everyone.