Hey folks, Harry here... want to see a real Zombie movie - not a virus movie disguising itself in false advertising to claim to be a Zombie movie? UNDEAD is a real Zombie movie. These things are animated corpses with a hunger for human flesh... and they rule! While it is definitely a 'funny take' on the Zombie genre, it is a no-holds-barred Zombie movie. Frankly, I put 28 DAYS LATER in that LAST MAN ON EARTH, GRAPES OF DEATH, OMEGA MAN, NO BLADES OF GRASS genre of virus / end of the world movies. UNDEAD is a proper Zombie flick. Check it out!
Hi Harry. Just happened to see the Australian zombie movie that's being mentioned more and more of late, Undead, at a screening last Friday and thought I'd send my thoughts about to you (I thought there'd be a few more reviews posted actually, but what ya gonna do?).
The story starts up in the fictional Aussie town of Berkeley, where local girl Renee (Felicity Mason) is about to lose everything to the bank and makes the decision to leave for the big city. As if it was going to be that easy, 'cos sooner than you can say "fuck me sideways!", a meteor shower (cool cgi here) hits the townsfolk carrying with it a nasty infection, turning all those in it's path into a flesh craving zombie. As has to happen in these films, a mis-matched group of survivors must band together to whether the onslaught and make it to the credits in one piece. Into this maelstrom are the local pilot and his pregnant girlfriend, the town copper and his rookie constable, and the local nutjob (Mungo McKay) whose been preparing for this day for some time (the entrance with that triple barrel shotgun went down a treat at this screening, surely there's a toy manufacturer on to this one???). Now, to go on would be to let the cat out of the bag. There's a bigger story going on here than you'd expect and to say more means you'll lose out when you see it.
Now, I don't particularly like films that are derivitive. I think if you haven't got anything new to say, then just shut the fuck up. What I liked about Undead was that it took a tired genre and toyed with it, mixing sci-fi and action with horror but still playing for laughs (and actually being funny...dig that naked alien!). Characters that are usually cannon fodder in these kinds of movies are given opportunity to make an impression (the cop is flat out hilarious) and the when the story could potentially take the easy option and be like every other movie it opts instead for the direction that you mightn't be expecting.
It's all good blood drenched fun. Kinda goofy. It's the movie you watch on DVD late at night with your mates where you slow mo and re watch the best gory moments over and over for a laugh (like the head explosion bit in Scanners). As a horror fan myself it's been a really, really long drought but with this (and 28 Days Later...still not out in Australia!) there's finally some rain on the horizon...
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