![]() That was just a horrible mistake to make. Sure, the barnacles on the water zombies was interesting and actually looked good, but they failed the most essential thing to have the zombie be wet and drenched. That just made absolutely no sense to me. I am puzzled why zombies that have been submerged in water would become blue in their skin tones and have blue blood. And the effects and make-up in "Zombie Tidal Wave" was, well, different. Now, for a zombie movie, having proper zombie make-up and special effects is usually a make or break thing. But hey, you know what you get with a SyFy movie. Sure, it wasn't outstanding, nor were there award winning performances to be experienced here. "Zombie Tidal Wave" had an adequate cast ensemble, to be honest. "Zombie Tidal Wave" was as generic of a zombie movie as they come, so you knew the exact outcome of the movie from the beginning. The storyline was so simplistic that you could watch it, leave for a long period, come back and not have missed out on anything crucial. Sure, it was watchable, but that was about it. But the movie wasn't as much fun or entertaining, nor as campy and goofy as "Sharknado" was, so this 2019 "Zombie Tidal Wave" didn't really prove to be much of anything. So I must admit that things were starting to be interesting. ![]() And then I saw that Ian Ziering was the lead in the movie, and I thought right well it could perhaps be so bad that it was entertaining, just like "Sharknado" was. After all, I do like zombies quite a lot. Still, with it being a zombie movie, of course I had to sit down and watch it. And you just know that this will most definitely be one of those zombie movies that came and went without as much as a groan, much less a bite. It's part of SYFYs "Off the Deep End Weekend," which means you can also binge all the Sharknado movies, plus Sharktopus and a bunch of other campy shark movies for good measure.Well, with this 2019 movie being a SyFy On Demand movie, you shouldn't and couldn't really expect much from the movie. Zombie Tidal Wave premieres on SYFY Saturday, August 17 at 9pm ET/8pm CT. I don't think there's any shame in trying to have fun." "At the end of the day, I just want people to go into it having a good time. "It's supposed to be silly, it's supposed to be fun," said Ferrante. It kept the actors on their toes and in the moment, lending an immediacy and spontaneous energy to the final film. That ended up being a bonus, according to Ferrante. "We broke once or twice for the door, but that was essentially a continuous take," said Ferrante. And because of the brutal shooting schedule, some scenes at the end of the day were pretty much done in one take-like the scene where actress Tatum Chiniquy, who plays Sam, is hiding from a zombie in the closet and the zombie smashes its head through the door. The blue-tinged zombie makeup also posed a challenge, not just because Thailand is hot and humid, but the monsters are often in the water. On the first day of shooting, the crew actually got stranded at sea when the boat's anchor got stuck. Most of the boating scenes were filmed onsite, along with a few dives to get some footage of sunken ships. In light of that, Ferrante chose to play up the 1980s feel, particularly the style of Italian horror director Lucio Fulci (aka the Godfather of Gore). "So I thought, let's make a zombie movie first and foremost." The film was shot over 18 days in Thailand late last year, and it mostly takes place during the day. When Ziering approached Ferrante about making Zombie Tidal Wave, the director was immediately intrigued by the fun, silly title, even though he'd never made a zombie movie before. He's aided by a few plucky locals from the fictional town of Emrys Bay, and it's a safe bet that not all those locals will survive. ZOMBIE TIDAL WAVE! Yes, it's a zombie pandemic, and "rogue veteran sea captain" Hunter Shaw (Sharknado franchise star Ian Ziering) is just the man to fight the monsters off and figure out what's causing the pandemic in the first place. A mysterious substance oozes out from the ocean floor, and suddenly hordes of the undead are swimming to the surface, popping up in the shallows off a local beach to snack on some unsuspecting sunbathers just trying to enjoy the day.Īnd then. Ferrante is the mastermind behind the hugely popular Sharknado and its five (count 'em!) sequels-it's a franchise that now even has a theme park attraction in Malaysia called Sharknado Alive. So what's this latest movie about? The trailer (embedded above) reveals a few details. This weekend, the network debuts its latest offering in the genre: Zombie Tidal Wave. The title pretty much says it all.ĭirector Anthony C. SYFY hopes to do for zombies what all those Sharknado movies did for sharks with Zombie Tidal Wave.įans of SYFY's delightfully cheesy B-movies like Sharktopus and Sharknado, rejoice.
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