Humor is very subjective, and Canadian Film Fest will put this to the test with its Friday night selection of Zombie Vampires… from Space! The ultra low budget sci-fi throwback comedy has managed to garner some attention through its festival run. But the low grade effects work and intentionally stilted acting will not land with everyone.

The small town of Marlow is being invaded by Space Vampires led by Space Dracula (Craig Gloster), but of course no one believes it to be true. That is, except for the MacDowell family, who lost their matriarch due to an attack by Dracula ten years prior. But after the death of her sister and father, it’s up to the only remaining MacDowell, Mary (Jessica Antovski) , to convince the townsfolk to fight back against a full scale Space Vampire invasion.

Zombie Vampires…from Space! is quite frankly ridiculous. Director Michael Stasko here is not just trying to emulate old fashion Sci-fi from the 50’s and 60’s with a full black and white color scheme and dated visuals. He’s actually trying hard to make an Ed Wood movie. Stasko is attempting to channel the king of bad movies but with middling results.  And this also plays back into what I said to open this review, about the subjectivity of humor, as there are people who revel in poorly made cinema like this.

There’s most definitely an audience out there for this, and admittedly this will likely play better in front of a raucous crowd after they all had several drinks. Others will likely feel, like myself, underwhelmed, unamused and just plain bored. But I will give a shoutout to Mark Lefebvre’s turn as Mayor Douglas, the only character I found to be consistently funny through the whole film.