The Devil's Playground

THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND (2010) - April 16, 2012
A mediocre film about a group of people trying to get to where they know a helicopter will be during a zombie outbreak.  Having heard this described as the "zombie parkour" movie, I was definitely let down on that front -- the parkour really just amounted to the zombies enthusiastically jumping over things.  The main problem here (aside from the anemic zombie parkour) is Bart Ruspoli's uninspired screenplay; the story was the generic "group of survivors must get from point A to point B" that we've seen in so many horror films, and all of the characters were completely bland and unmemorable.  Mark McQueen's direction was basically servicable, but didn't do much to elevate the tired material.  **