Rent Attack of the Herbals (2011)
2.0 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 47min
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- Synopsis:
Jackson McGregor has returned after years of exile to his grandparent's home in a small sleepy Scottish village, a village where the daily routine consists of eating, sleeping, fishing and drinking tea. However the local's way of life is under threat from a large corporate retail machine headed up by a monster named Bennett who wants to buy land for a new development. After discovering a crate of herbal tea washed up on shore, Jackson hatches a plan to sell the tea and save the village. However the new lease of life the tea seems to give people soon turns into a nightmare, and Jackson finds himself in a village of Zimmer-frame wielding, flesh eating pensioners. Can Jackson save the village, redeem himself and stay alive? - Actors:
- Calum Booth, Steve Worsley, Richard Currie, Liam Matheson, Lee Hutcheon, Claire McCulloch, Margaret Bramwell, Jimmy Lynch, Alan Fraser, Lindsay Cromar, Dave Thomson, Mary Cox, Daniel Greavey, Dorothy Taylor, Mark Wood, Alec Western, Libby Beint, Morgan Faith Keith, Michelle Rose, Murray Duncan
- Directors:
- David Ryan Keith
- Producers:
- David Ryan Keith
- Writers:
- Alisdair Cook, Liam Matheson
- Studio:
- Showbox
- Genres:
- Comedy, Horror
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Reviews (1) of Attack of the Herbals
Putting the TEA back into totally crap - Attack of the Herbals review by AER
I’ve seen f88k awful films from Wales, Ireland, and England (mainly Essex) but Scotland (up until now) have come out ahead. Somehow Attack of the Herbals has escaped my attention and I like to watch British and Irish movies… This sorry horror-comedy is unfunny, badly acted and fairly unimaginative.
A crate of Nazi tea washes up in a crate at a remote Scottish village decades later. It stayed waterproof! When some dopey morons decide to sell the tea to the locals in a get rich quick scheme to save the post office from an evil property developer, little did they know that after drinking it the villagers would turn into zzzzzombies.
This is retrograde sixth form project made by people who thought that Shaun of the Dead would be a doddle to remake. The amateur cast struggle and literally die on camera, struggling with the shoddy script and plodding plot, which witholds the carnage for a very long, very unfunny 60 minutes or so. The only thing worse than a boring horror, is a boring and unfunny horror-comedy. This was a waste of time.
This registers some point because the sound, the camera work, the special effects worked, editing as they should. But this was far from entertaining.
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