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Actor: Dirk Hunter, Felicity Mason (II), Lisa Cunningham (II), Mungo McKay, Rob JenkinsBrand: MASON,FELICITY
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Undead
DVD Review: a HUGE disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
I consider myself to be a harcore zombie fan, and I actually thought that I would like ANY zombie movie that came along (with the exception of Zombie Lake, which doesn't even count as a zombie movie in my opinion, but is more of a ghost story). Hell, I've sat down and actually enjoyed some real hunks of crapola like "Zombi 3, 4 & 5", "House of the Dead", "City of the Living Dead" and even Troma's "Garden of the Dead". I honestly didn't think there would ever be a zombie movie they'd throw at me that I plain old just wouldn't enjoy. Wow was I wrong. Years ago I read of UNDEAD on the internet, hailed as the "best zombie film since Night of the Living Dead".
Whoever said that deserves to be eaten alive, I'm sorry.
I waited years for this movie to come to the U.S., and finally got a hold of it. I popped it into the DVD player, sat down, and was excited as ever to watch what had been reviewed as a truly great zombie film. I barely got through it. I was so incedibly dissapointed, it was the first thing in my life that I ever actually regretted spending fifteen lousy dollars on. Let me try to explain without having a heart attack. WARNING! SPOILERS! (if you care, which you shouldn't)
The film opens nicely, with some really cool special effects featuring a meteor shower bombarding a happy town called Berkely. It was accompanied by a goofy, but well done soundtrack. In fact, the movie does have decent sound, and sound effects. We are also introduced to a girl named Renee, who has just been handed a butt-load of responsibilities. When she tries to escape town, her escort is eaten by a girl who had been hit by a meteor. Next, the town loony comes to the rescue with a triple barrel shotgun. Pretty good sofar, ignoring the really lame wisecracks and other failed humor. This is where the good stuff not only stops, but slams in reverse.
Renee rushes after the loony in the rain, then spends about five minutes rinsing herself off with a jug of water that she finds. Next, she bangs on the door several times before finding a key and entering the house (the loony not even realizing she's entered, but suddenly develops wolf-like hearing when she is standing right behind him). Several more characters show up, including a ridiculous cop and his constable. The cop was obviously an attempt at comic relief, but saying the F word repeatedly, over and over, throughout the entire movie, just really isn't that funny. So anyway, a bunch of zombies break in, and the characters spend another five whole minutes shooting, and reshooting, and reshooting the same zombies before taking their time heading down the basement to a bomb shelter. The loony claims it is the only safe place, but only minutes later contradicts himself by saying they can't survive there because they have no food or water. So the characters waste time in the shelter trying to figure out what "those things" are, which is extremely difficult to watch, considering we have heard the same argument literally dozens of times in countless other zombie movies.
Eventually they go back upstairs, and there is another long battle scene in which they keep shooting the same zombies over and over, and there is a waste of not only special effects, but stunts as well. The loony suspends himself from the ceiling with the spurs in his cowboy boots to fire at the zombies upside down, when it would have been much simpler and much more effective to just stand erect and shoot them. Just wasted effort to try to impress modern audiences, if you ask me. So they take their time getting to the car, more pointless shooting along the way, and eventually end up on the road, where they wash the rain off of themselves for another good while (which seems completely pointless, as if the pathogen was carried down in the rainand seeped into your pores, simply getting naked and dumping more water on yourself would do absolutely nothing to help). There is also some boring subplot in which the loony had encountered the alien zombie plague before, but survived somehow.
Next they end up in front of a giant wall surrounding the town, wasting more time trying to figure out what it is, and whether or not hey should try to climb it. So the cop decides to go for it, but meanwhile the constable spontaneously transforms into a zombie and... ughhh, you know what, I'll just skip to the end, the rest was so dumb I couldn't even pay attention and I'll probably get something wrong.
Anyhow, in the end, it turns out that the meteor shower was an accident, and the aliens quarentined the town with a giant wall to keep the zombie infection from spreading. The aliens also "cure" all the zombies, which means all the ones that the people shot are now dead, and therefore fighting them was a complete waste of effort. Now I will admit, I did kind of like the ending. One of the characters who had escaped the town via a plane, is still infected with the zombie plague. Just after the aliens leave, he turns into a zombie, killing and eating people, spreading the plague across the country. The final scene is Renee in a house, holding up with several other people, and all of the towns zombies penned up in a giant cage, waiting for the aliens to return with their magical cure.
Now, if the whole movie had been as fast paced and exciting as the very beginning, and the very end, the movie would have been good. But this in absolutely NO way even comes close to comparing to Night of the Living Dead. I gave this movie a few tries, but I just do not enjoy watching it at all. I very much enjoyed the movie "Dead-Alive", which had the same goofy humor and foreign accents, but that movie was MUCH more exciting, entertaining and intriguing than UNDEAD. Wow, what a major disappointment, especially to someone who's usually never disappointed by a zombie movie. That's really saying a lot.
Description of Undead
No Description Available.Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-MAY-2007
Media Type: DVD
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