A girl namned Rene has to move out of her hometown Berkeley due to finicial problems but doesn't get far as meteors are raining from the sky and turns everyone in to flesh-eating zombies. She then runs in to a small group of people doing their best to survive and who also are trying to find out what is going on.
For all of you who liked Braindead and Bad Taste, this one is for you even though it's far from the same it still has some of the same elements and humour in it that makes a really good splatter/zombie movie.
This movie is actually really original, it's has similarities to mentioned before Braindead and Bad Taste because of the humour and the massive amounts of splatter and gore and it also has some similarities to other zombie movies like Day of the Dead etc.
I guess it's impossible to make a zombie movie without it not being compared to other zombie movies, but all in all it goes its own way and a really original way that is. For a low-budget movie, Undead has the most amazing special effects and it's really great to get to see this. It also has tons(!) of gore, and even though it's humorous it never gets really silly and takes away focus from the actual gore and splatter.
So what is there to complain about, well the actors are not the best, some of them are rather embarrassing to watch since they blow so much, but on the other hand, this movie has so many other things that even though it doesn't make up for the bad acting it still makes it totally worth checking out.
It has an interesting story, it's really entertaining, has great special effects and has more gore and splatter then one could wish for. It's also very cool that this movie comes from Australia since we haven't seen to much stuff like this from over there. I truly hope that the Spierig brothers countinue to make movies in the same vein in the future. Highly recommended.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2003
DIRECTOR: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
WRITING CREDITS: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Sci-Fi
CAST: Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins
COUNTRY: Australia
RUNTIME: 104 min
RATING: 7/10
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