SummaryThis horror film, in the vein of "Night of the Living Dead" and "The Evil Dead," features an overflow of gore and visual effects to make any horror fan squirm with delight. (Lions Gate Films)
SummaryThis horror film, in the vein of "Night of the Living Dead" and "The Evil Dead," features an overflow of gore and visual effects to make any horror fan squirm with delight. (Lions Gate Films)
What really grabs your attention about Undead, however, are the effects. For a movie budgeted under $1 million, the Spierigs have done an amazing job putting together believable visuals.
Initially artsy, then campy, then tense, it would have worked better if writer-directors Peter and Michael Spierig had kept everything serious and let the inherent absurdism of zombie attacks speak for itself without additional ironic comment.
The story is more undead than all of these revenant shufflers. And the orgy of gore and home-engineered special effects doesn't make up for the shortfall.
If only they didn't cannibalize their source material so much, then take an extreme rule reversal just before the end credits, they might have achieved something original, rather than just a fan-fiction derivation of George A. Romero's canon.