Tuesday 22 October 2013

The Dead Undead (2010)

A group if teens arrive at an abandoned motel, only to be attacked by zombies.
Thankfully help is at hand, in the form of a group of zombie fighting vampire mercenaries. 


First things first; this isn't nearly as good as the synopsis suggests it might be... after I'd decided to watch it I tagged that I was doing so; this movie is 3 years old, and has amassed 4 "likes" on Facebook!

FOUR!

Minor spoilers follow for a movie you don't want to watch anyway. 

As I say, a group of 5 'teens' (played by 20 something's) arrive at a motel and, finding it abandoned, help themselves to rooms. It's fairly standard teen horror fair for the next 20 minutes or so, as they go for a swim, play pranks of each other, and so fourth... But the acting is beyond terrible. 

Eventually they are attacked and, using the small arsenal of weapons that they have for done reason brought on holiday with them, do okay against the zombies for a while. 

Just as they are being overpowered, the A-Team show up; it's not really the A-Team, of course, but it is a van full of armed-to-the-teeth mercenaries, lead by former pop idol Luke Goss, who can get through a lot of ammo. 

Eventually the mercenaries are forced by the pending sunrise to admit that they are vampires; but that they leave peacefully in a town built for their kind, surviving on cows blood. 

Further, they explain that the zombies are inface V-Zs, Vampire Zombies, caused by (wait for it) vampires drinking Mad Cow blood!!!

To make matters worse, the Vampires may as well have been himan... they file down their teeth, have no urge whatsoever to feast on our human characters, and apart from having to hide out and share exposition during daylight hours (when the zombies can't come out either) their vampire powers never come into play!

We are told at length how difficult these V-Zs are to kill... But throughout the movie, they seem to dye in much the same way as 'standard' zombies. 

The entire middle third of the movie is the worlds most drawn out 'Action' sequence... Seemingly endless shots of sentry guns being fired in slow motion, bullet casings spilling on the floor in slow motion, and extras being shot  (or catapulted backwards on wires). When the action shifts to sword play, it's just as over the top, with zombies being slung several feet from the slightest brush with the end of a sword. 

And then there's some babel about a vampire myth, an a sequel setup... Yeah, that'll happen!

Reading over my comments, it sounds like the movie was a bit of a laugh... It wasn't. There are one or two lines that spill over into unintentional parody, but mostly it's just a hodgepodge of bad acting and poor pacing. 

Another pound that would have been better spent elsewhere. 

2 comments:

  1. Sounds mind numbingly dull. Wondering what the point was to have Vampires if none of their characteristics come into play... maybe they didn't want to shoot at night? Who knows.....

    Extended action scenes do my head in. I hate those and extended car chase scenes. Slow motion as well?? I for one won't be rushing out to see it.

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  2. Nope... they couldn't come out in the day. there was literally no point in them being vampires (except sequel setup)

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