I had trouble believing Landon and company were going to be able to pull this type of horror-comedy hybrid off. But they do, more or less, the strengths of the performances and the number of solid laughs winning me over.

Demerit badges all round.

Putrefied audiences may get a few yucks from the crass schoolboy blend of tits and offal, but connoisseurs will opt for the much funnier Cockneys vs Zombies.

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse doesn’t try to do anything exceptional, but it might have been more successful if Zombieland, which came out six years earlier, hadn’t attempted a lot of the same things, and done them better.