Dead 7

The spot-your-favorite-boy quotient here, and the fact that they all appear to be in on the joke, makes Dead 7 a blast to watch.

Ultimately, the whole thing feels like little more than an excuse to queue up the song, "In the End," which Carter and company croon over the closing credits. Frankly, it's a payoff that can't come soon enough.

The amusement over the boy bands vs zombies concept wears off about 10 minutes after the hypercolorized, bargain-bin Sin City style character introductions. Once the team is settled in, the film takes on an earnest tone and forgets to be in on the joke.

Dead 7 is another SyFy attempt at wacky genre fun that's completely mucked up by The Asylum's ham-fisted, grimy, low-cost approach to filmmaking.