There are some fun creature attack scenes and amusing lines, definitely, but I was a bit let down by the movie overall. But I’m pretty sure the movie that most genre fans imagine in their heads when they hear the set-up and the cast list is more exciting than Black Friday actually turns out to be.
That’s right, this movie puts the stars of The Evil Dead, Bubba Ho-tep, Idle Hands, Final Destination, Spawn, Black Dynamite, and Pan’s Labyrinth together, then unleashes monsters on them. The concept of store employees battling alien-zombie-creature shoppers is a great one, cooked up by screenwriter Andy Greskoviak, and the hype builds when you see that some of these employees are played by the likes of Devon Sawa, Michael Jai White, Ivana Baquero… and best of all, the legendary Bruce Campbell as the store manager. Almost immediately after the doors are opened to let those shoppers start streaming in, things inside the store go to hell because there’s “meteor shit” (as Jordy Verrill would call it) inside the store and the shoppers start getting infected. It’s Thanksgiving evening and they’ve clocked in to work the night shift leading into Black Friday, with the frenzied shoppers lining up outside. In this case, it doesn’t release a carnivorous gelatin or turn people into living Chia pets, it basically turns them into zombies and mutates them into hideous creatures from there – creatures that were brought to the screen through some cool-looking makeup effects.Ī glimpse of a news report tells us that multiple meteors have fallen and caused people to get sick, but the employees at a We Love Toys toy store don’t have time to worry about all that. REVIEW: Much like The Blob and the The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill segment of Creepshow, director Casey Tebo‘s Black Friday starts with a meteor falling from the sky.
PLOT: Employees at a We Love Toys store have their worst Black Friday ever when the shoppers are turned into monstrous creatures.