This is the one youve been waiting for: the Osama Bin Laden zombie movie. Unfortunately, all it does is prove that the Taliban leader was as useless in death as he was in life. The film starts promisingly enough, with Bin Laden unleashing his zombie soldiers on attacking US troops, but then he disappears from the narrative and a group of uninteresting characters including a shirtless beefcake, a samurai sword wielding hottie and (why not?) a yoga instructor from Colorado begin searching for him in Afghanistan. When they eventually find him, at the very end of the film, hes gone full zombie and you have to wonder why they bothered looking in the first place all he does is shuffle around and drool a lot. Even Hitlers disembodied head came up with a diabolical master plan for world domination, but what does zombie Bin Laden do? Nothing. Our heroes destroy him easily enough, then they walk away and the movie ends without so much as teasing us with a sequel, Osombie 2: Osama Like It Hot.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
