Some numbers are too large to contemplate. How many drops of water are there in the ocean? How many grains of sand are there in the desert? How many more apocalyptic zombie movies must I sit through?
With a maximum lack of imagination, “Stake Land” covers the same blood-soaked ground as “I Am Legend,” “28 Days Later,” etc. Brought together by chance, a naive teen (Connor Paolo) and a wary old survivor known only as Mister (Nick Damici) work together in a zombie-zapped world. With judicious use of stakes, the pair team to slaughter zombie vampires by the dozen.
So trite are the characters and the situation (lurch, lurch, scream, stake through spine) that the movie ought to be embarrassed even to exist in a world that already contains the excellent spoofs “Zombieland” and “Shaun of the Dead.” This genre flat-lined a long time ago. Why won’t it stay dead?