https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9jjOSx0G8w

Just a day shy of Halloween, "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse's" theatrical release Friday will give people the chance to get spooked long after Saturday's fright night - or will it?

According to critics, the Christopher Landon-directed, Halston Sage-starring horror-comedy is far more laughable (for all the wrong reasons) than frightening. Apparently not even heartthrob Patrick Schwarzenegger can save the gory flick from failure. After all, it only scored a 20 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Read on to see what reviewers say regarding this movie about three scouts who battle zombies to save the people in their town.

"[It is] a deeply irritating horror-comedy that might have worked as a "Funny or Die" short but which is pretty much DOA as a feature-length concern ... Loud, repellent, badly written, indifferently directed and almost completely devoid of any genuine laughs, 'Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse' is essentially a film for 12-year-old boys who can still derive some kind of basic entertainment for the mere sight of spurting blood or a bare breast, all the better if they can appear at the same time. For everyone else, it is little more than disposable junk that will only make you appreciate the achievements of the likes of 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Zombieland' even more." -- Peter Sobczynski, RogerEbert.com

Some say though, that while it may not be the movie of the year, there is far worse out there than this to be seen.

"'The Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse' takes the Living Dead/Walking Dead/Brain-eating Dead as seriously as this worn-out genre deserves. Which is to say, not very seriously at all. You poor stay-at-home shut-ins parsing every scene in that AMC soap opera about zombies can suck it. This is 'Superbad' with superhot supermodel thin actresses ... Still, as zombie comedies go, falling short of 'Zombieland' and 'Warm Bodies' is no crime. The yuks and yucks add up to close, but no cigar. At least it’s still better than TIVOing that recycled undead half-hearted satire and its prequel that TV is serving up Sunday nights." -- RogersMovieNation.com

Others say if inappropriate teenage touching is your forte, then this is the film for you.

"Unless they’ve started handing out merit badges for breast groping and butt chewing, don’t expect too many prizes for 'Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse,' a witless undead retread served up as a vulgar revenge-of-the-dorks comedy ... Christopher Landon serves up a more straightforward slab of horror-comedy hackwork with this frenzied tale of three beige-uniformed buddies trying to fend off a small-town zombie outbreak. The Boy Scouts of America has understandably sought to distance itself from Paramount’s Oct. 30 release; with any luck, the vast majority of audiences will follow suit after some obligatory Halloween weekend biz." -- Justin Chang, Variety