'Yummy' (2019) – Lars Damoiseaux.
A beautiful, large breasted young woman, and her relentlessly dreary boyfriend visit a sketchy clinic for a budget breast reduction op, and he inadvertently triggers patient zero, unleashing yet another monotonous zombie outbreak. Yummy annoyingly proves, once again, that originality in contemporary zombie horror is now as terminally defunct as its worm-sodden protagonists. A half-decent scribe could have made something watchable out of the basic premise, taken a darkly sardonic look at man's increasingly grotesque obsession with vanity. Too facile, no memorable weirdness, and a slack, Trope by-numbers text, that splashy bouts of CGI-assisted gore can't remedy. A roomful of crazed Ebola monkey's, and a crippled typewriter would have come up with a better film than this. Forget the penis enlargement scene, contemporary horror-makers all need a brain enlargement procedure. Just so I don't sound like a negative Nelly, I genuinely liked the cute Gremliod in the jar, perhaps Yummy should have been about the apocalyptic ingress of vengeful Jar Gremloids? 'Shudder Original' is clearly the new 'Blumhouse'!! Oi Vey! We're all fucked!

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