Two slackers go to a drug dealer’s apartment hoping they’ll get hired as low-level muscle. While hanging around the apartment, they bide their time by using a drone equipped with a camera to spy on the hooker who lives in the apartment below. When the drone gets stuck on the next level, they are horrified to see the apartment is overrun with zombies. Panicked, they stay inside, hunker down, and decide to wait out the zombie apocalypse.
Written by Shaun Donnelly, one of the masterminds behind Lingerie Fighting Championships (one of the characters wears an LFC shirt) and costarring the LFC champ, Jolene Hexx as the hooker, The Zombie Apocalypse in Apartment 14F is a semi-amusing attempt to churn out a low budget zombie flick with limited locations and cast members. Too bad the two leads aren’t very funny. Since most of the running time is devoted to them locked in the apartment together, the whole thing has a tendency to get repetitive in a hurry. I mean having two slackers doing drugs, making pop culture references, and generally just hanging out doesn’t exactly translate into gripping cinema.
If this was made during the pandemic, I might’ve given it some slack as the premise does offer a novel way to make a zombie movie on a (very) small scale. Since it came out a full year before COVID, I can’t quite bring myself to go easy on it. It also doesn’t help that you can see the twist ending coming from a mile away.
Hexx is easily the best thing about the movie, even if she isn’t in it very much. (Although I’m sure you already guessed that if you’re familiar with my love for her abilities in the ring.) She gets naked briefly for shower and sex scenes, and the film briefly comes to life whenever she is front and center. Unfortunately, she spends most of her screen time barely visible on a teeny monitor. One thing is for sure, the day she has a starring vehicle, I’ll be the first one in line to see it.
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