Zombie Undead

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The film has potential, but the writing and dialogue is dreadful. The repetitive film title says everything you need to know about the writing: "Zombie Undead"? More like the writers were braindead and had baited you into wasting an hour+ of your life. First, there's a lot of unnecessary scenes - probably just as time filler. Second, the acting is a bit over dramatic. Third, the addition of the military is both pointless and campy. I understand that this is a low budget film - probably a film student's final project. And it gets and "E" for effort. But it really had a lot of potential if the filmmaker/writers just stuck to the heavily stylized shots and a more simplified plot.

After 45 minutes of "Zombie Undead" I fell asleep. Woke up 10 minutes later, renamed it "Directors family & friends in extremely bad make up" - and didn't bother to rewind, as the 10 minutes of sleep probably saved me from further agony. I just wanted it to be over and forgotten as soon as possible - just as the careers of anyone who had anything to do with this "film". Listening to paint dry is more entertaining than this, having my left arm ripped right out of the socket is less painful than watching this, watching snails crawl across a piece of cabbage is more exciting than this, a fart in outer space has more impact than this, a deaf hamster with one eye and a wooden leg can act better than this...etc. etc...you get the general idea? Just stay away...

After a dirty bomb is detonated, a woman attempting to care for her injured father lands in a hospital with other survivors who are soon cursed to learn that the fallout has started a zombie pandemic that's overrun the building and must team with several other survivors to get out alive. Overall, this was a decidedly decent indie zombie effort. What really works nicely for this one is the manner in which the film builds up the idea of the outbreak and the initial mass zombie pandemic. With the creation of the creatures through the idea of the gases released and all the chaos the hospital experiences at that point, seeing the emergence of the creatures and the general confusion that arises from a terrorist attack as such gives this one a nice, strong starting point that really works nicely overall. From there, this one really does good at building a continuous stream of zombie action within the building. The idea of confronting the overwhelming hordes that are found here, constantly putting them on the retreat as they go about trying to survive the different scenarios. From the first encounter where they try to get past the creatures and use the elevator to escape or trying to get past the zombies swarming in the lobby once they get off, the fact that the majority of the film details their experience trying to get out of the building overrun with creatures makes this a fun, fast-moving effort that works nicely with it's small budget. As this manages to make good use of the dwindling numbers to enhance the threat by the creatures as well as bringing about some solid gore, this section of the film moves along rather nicely to give this some solid positives as there are a few flaws to be found here. The biggest issue is a decidedly puzzling tactic repeated several times throughout the film of distorting and flaring the camera during moments when there's no need for any kind of technical flourishes. Not only do these flare-ups not make any sense for being included here at all but the moments when they choose to include this tactic as it's done when people are simply moving around trying to avoid being bitten which shouldn't have any kind of special enhancement that makes the scene look blurrier than they really need to be. That tactic also goes hand-in-hand with the film's low-budget look and feel. Not only does the relatively obvious one-location setting give this away as to what kind of film this really is, there's also the rather charmingly silly-looking zombie makeup as there's nothing more obvious here than dirt and mud smeared across them in places or the rather simplistic tone that just oozes off the film that carries throughout this one. With an underwhelming finale also getting featured, there are a few issues that do get featured here. Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

This website won't allow me to rate this film zero out of ten, but zero is the score it deserves. Zero budget, zero talent and zero effort by everyone involved. The zombies don't appear to have any kind of zombie make up at all, which gives you an idea of what the makers of this were thinking. Make something as quickly and cheaply as possible to con the public out of their hard earned cash. Watching this film is like having excrement thrown in your face for an hour and a half. No-one on screen has any acting ability - Do something else with your life. In short, avoid this movie like the zombie plague.

The only IMDb synopsis was written by "rhys", whom I suspect is the film's director, Rhys Davies. Not a good sign. "Zombie Undead" is essentially an unnecessary and pointless remake of "Night of the Living Dead" -- insofar as radiation creates the zombies (at least, it appears so in ZU; it's never made clear); they eat humans and their remains; they shamble a lot; the protagonists are claustrophobically confined to a hospital; and one by one they're picked off. Later, there's some open-field gunplay, too, thanks to a sharpshooting rifleman. But Romero's classic moved quickly and promoted a deep sense of dread, with characters in constant conflict; this one just plods along, with scene after talky scene of the heroes wandering through the hospital and trying to escape. And just when you think you're in the final reel, it continues to drag its feet to an ending that just...kind of...IS. I felt no sense of closure or resolution. Another reviewer noted the obvious foul-up of staging a scene in an area that supposedly has no escape route, but where no-parking signs and a partly filled bicycle rack are clearly visible. It's compounded by the fact that you can also see a low-set railing that abuts a street. Ah well. On the plus side, the exterior cinematography looks good. And there's a very subtle (and perhaps unintended) homage to "The Last Man on Earth" very late in the film. But if you are still tempted to watch "Zombie Undead," just...DON'T.

This is a zombie movie. There are zombies. People get chased and consumed. I don't think it is giving away much to say that. On the negative side, the storyline is unsurprising and the acting is variable. Perhaps that is why some of the reviews and ratings of this movie have been negative. But the impressive things are the stylish look, sharp editing and satisfying music. I liked it, anyway. I saw it in a cinema alongside a load of enthusiastic zombie fans, and we all had a great time. If you get this movie expecting it to be Avatar, you are sure going to be disappointed. But if you get it knowing it is an indi Brit zombie flic, then you can sit back and enjoy the gore.

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Brilliant indie film had me totally entertained all the way through.