Greek zombies, more than satisfying effects and a very entertaining movie is what you can expect from To Kako or Evil.

Storywise, the plot couldn’t be more classic: people running from zombies and chopping up some newborn undead along their path. Place this in an infinte loop for about 1,5 hour and you get To Kako. But hey isn’t this the synopsis for most of the zombie releases ? At the beginning of the film you see 3 geologists working in some caves on the outskirts of Athens, where they encounter some kind of entity which infects them and turns them into -ofcourse- undead flesheaters. Moments later, the infection spreads and most of Athens population runs around hunting for human flesh.

As skinny as the plot appears to be, Noussias surprised me with his camerawork and editing ideas. For example, sometimes the screen is divided into several squares each highlighting a camera angle of the same scene. Adding that little extra something to the dynamism of a scene.

On top of that we get treated to some decent special effects. Those effects reach their climax at allmost halfway the film where the group of refugees meet up with some marines and suddenly get attacked by hordes of zombies. This part has Braindead-like bloodletting with epic proportions and tons of comic relief. Aside the good gore I must say I am somewhat dissapointed in the zombie make-up, it seems the limited budget all went into the chop chop scenes. But hey, that works for me!

The most inruiging parts of the movie are the final few moments where Yorgos manages to create a grand finale which will not go unnoticed.

(Spoiler!) The few remaining survivors finally go into the soccer stadium and run to the middle of the field, standing back to back and armed with all they can find. The camera zooms out slowly, revealing a top view of the stadium lying in the city. Slowly but surely, the streets surrounding the building are being populated by hundreds, even thousands of zombies. While the camera zooms even further you, see the grey mass entering the stadium and finally running on the soccer field where the agonizing gang awaits their fate. The last few minutes are so brilliantly rendered onscreen that alone for this part you should check To Kako out! Definately one of the better homebrewn movies around.