The Coed and the Zombie Stoner

Even whacked out of your mind on weed, this would still be painfully laborious to sit through.

See this is why I love Asylum Films. Asylum Films, the studio that rose to success by making cheap knockoffs of blockbuster hits, has invented its own new genre. It has elements of camp, except that by definition camp has to be unintentional ("failed seriousness"). It has elements of parody but it's not outright parody. It's comedy on a level that makes the audience think it's failing at comedy, and that itself is the comedy. (Huh?) Well with a title like _The Coed and the Zombie Stoner_ you know exactly what you're going to get. It's a mashup of 3 genres that appeal to the lowest in all of us: brainless fraternity house comedy, stoner flick, and zombies. They even throw in a cheesy romcom plotline, but I guess if they added that to the title it would be too many words for the target audience to read. What makes this flick fun aren't the juvenile sight gags (of which there are plenty) or the gratuitous nudity (plenty again), or ridiculous gore (you can guess), but surprise it's the actual story itself. It's just so bizarre that you gotta ride it out til the end. A hot babe "nerd" (we know she's a nerd because she wears glasses) stumbles on a zombie hunk who's been hiding in the freezer since 1985 when he got stoned and accidentally walked into an immortality machine thinking it was a shower, fusing his DNA with weed as well as a cat that slipped into the machine with him (_T…

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