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- Posted on 2008-08-26
Night of the Living Aussies
Like Dead Alive, Undead is an Australian zombie comedy that's too smart to take itself seriously. Plenty of gore and stereotypical characters round out an otherwise good story that while it doesn't reinvent the genre, it does breathe some new life into it.
In the vein of Night of the Living Dead, we find six people hiding in a farm house, completely surrounded by Zombies brought forth by a meteor shower. As they make their escape, we watch their numbers dwindle until there's only one left, or as the movie puts it, "Strong ones are always the last left."
The stunts in this film seem to be influenced by John Woo films and the Zombies themselves are the slow moving kind, making them all the more scarier.
While the movie itself isn't scary and there are certainly no "Boo!" moments, it's a decent Zombie movie that any fan of Shaun of the Dead or Dead Alive should check out.
Pizza, beer and friends should make this movie all the more enjoyable.
Best Zombies:
The Zombie Fish
The Zombie Boyfriend
Score: 3
- Posted on 2008-07-25
Not Bad, but Too Many Continuity Problems
The film that tries too hard to be Dead Alive without the interesting direction and the continuity and much of the fun. Certain zombies that have been disposed of in one seen tend to reappear in other scenes. The main characters boyfriend was literally sliced in half as a zombie. However, he attacks later in the film and one can see he's miraculously in one piece. A child zombie is brained at the beginning of the film and she's mark free in another scene.
The acting is wooden and the characters were forgettable. They even started to annoy me after the first 30 minutes. Everyone knows that zombies are taken out with a shot to the head. Apparently, the good people of Berkley never saw a Romero film. The characters shot the Zombies with clumsy abandon. Until the someone happens to hit one of them in noggin with a well placed shot between the eyes.
Other than those complaints, the movie surprisingly keeps one guessing at the plot twists. The film comes together really well, and I don't want to ruin the surprise at the climax. Just in case one does want to see, Un dead.
Should you find the film at the library, or a friend lends it to you or you catch it on cable on demand. By all means sit down and enjoy it. However, I really don't recommend buying it. Buy Peter Jacksons' Dead Alive, it's a better film if one can actually get through it without vomiting, it's really that hard to watch, but worth it none the less.
Score: 2
- Posted on 2008-07-17
This Movie = A Really Good Thing
After having lost everything, Rene (played by Felicity Mason) tries to leave her hometown of Berkeley but is unable to get out when the town is struck with a meteor shower. Instead of leaving giant craters and demolished buildings in their wake, these meteors leave something else: an infection that transforms humans into zombies.
The town now overrun with the undead, Rene barely survives and meets up with Marion (played by Mungo McKay), the town nut who claimed he was abducted by aliens a long time before. Soon joined by others, the group of survivors find temporary solace in Marion's cabin before the dead come a'knockin' and force their way in.
Blood and guts ensue as this band of not-so-merry-men try and fight their way through throngs of the undead and leave town.
They almost make it, too, if not for that giant, spike-laden wall bordering the town, keeping everyone inside.
This flick starts off as your run-of-the-mill zombie movie. Nothing wrong with that. Not at all. The blood, the guts, the guns--ah, yes, everything that makes up a good zombie flick. Even Marion's Matrix-like fighting style works well in the context of the story (though when that style was first introduced, I had a hard time buying it but quickly got used to it).
What separates this zombie flick from all others I've seen is the twist it takes when we find out these aren't your standard zombies, but instead the product of "something beyond," namely intergalactic stuff. Toss in a few aliens and you got yourself a unique zombie film that pays more homage to the zombie clichés than actually follows them like a rulebook.
This is an independent film and I only point that out because it being indy really added to the gritty feel of the whole thing, enhancing the movie. This didn't carry that too-smooth-yet-too-cheap look that B-movies have. Even the directors' love for the genre really shone through in this and the cast did a fantastic job.
I can understand now why this movie got the cult following it did.
If you dig good solid zombie flicks, check this one out.
Score: 4
- Posted on 2008-06-10
Sub-par zombie flick tries too hard
This film was pretty bad. I'm a huge fan of this genre, and this movie was meant to be a throwback to older zombie/horror flicks, but I can find none of the elements which made those movies so great in this one. It's plot is off-the-wall, but not in an interesting way --- rather, in a nonsensical way. Visually, this movie was pretty good, and that was its only redeeming feature. The dialogue was horrible in most parts, and was for the most part laughable, but again, not in a good way. In the making-of video, the writer/director/producer whatever says he wanted the score to be more action/adventure than horror; but to be honest though, it sounds more like "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" (no joke). This was one of the worst aspects of the film in my opinion, and it alone would have ruined the whole movie for me if the rest of it had not been pretty bad as well.
Score: 2 - Posted on 2008-02-23
Should be called the UnGood
I have seen bad and well then there is this..The movie is about, as the title say the undead doing what the undead do in these kind of movies. What we have here is a thin plot that makes no sense including the ending which will leave you absolutely clueless as to what happened. The acting is poor at best and the characters are moronic. The directing is amatuer adding up to one big train wreck. One character played by Mungo Mckay is about as annoying as they come. He basically talks like a retard or mentally challenged for the politically correct here. After about 5 minutes it kind of gets a slight bit annoying. He carries a shot gun similar to the one Reggie Bannister carried in the phantasm series..Sorry boys I saw the film too..He moves like a slug until he unleashes 2 of his pistols which he carries about 90 of them. But we just don't pull them out we have to throw them around like a majorette tossing her baton with all the flip spin and twist moves you can imagine. I mean get real. And lastly lets not forget the story told by Mungo himself about getting attacked by the 10" fish. A real tear jerker guaranteed not to leave a dry eye in the house..
In short you have a bunch of idiots running around shooting up ammo that they don't have accomplishing absolutley nothing. don't buy this. If you can email me you can have mine. and if your not satified don't send it back.
Score: 1
