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Undead (2005)
28 %
Reviews Counted: 72 Fresh: 20 Rotten:52 Average Rating: 4.2/10
Consensus:
This low-budget homage to the zombie genre borrows heavily from superior predecessors and revels in a pile of its own campiness -- neither original nor watchable enough to entertain.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Synopsis: Australian brothers Michael and Peter Spierig directed this entry in the flesh-eating zombie genre, a full-on gore and gag fest, outback style. The plot finds local beauty contest winner Rene (Felicity Mason), about to head out of her isolated lakeside hometown to the big city when a meteor... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins, Lisa Cunningham, Dirk Hunter
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Screenwriter: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Producer: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
Composer: Cliff Bradley
Screenwriter: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Producer: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
Composer: Cliff Bradley
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That said, it's still a lot of fun and the film combines some impressively gory set-pieces with smartly-written characters and some hilarious lines
01/15/05
Top Critic
Absolutely unhinged in a way only Australian filmmakers can ever get right.
11/18/04
An amusingly outrageous Australian variation on the familiar zombie theme, played mostly for laughs.
07/16/08
Unlikely to satisfy horror fans...but the Spierigs might have a future in this genre if they put more effort and imagination into their scripts.
03/01/07
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05/26/06
If the undead in this movie weren't so physically hideous, they'd be perfect for next year's season of "The Apprentice."
11/04/05
Une comédie d’horreur faite de peu de moyens et sans prétention, mais de manière un peu fade vu le scénario grandiloquent que le duo tente de nous faire gober.
10/27/05
...it seems obvious that the Spierigs are destined to go on to bigger and better things.
10/25/05
A comedic horror sci-fi mixture that manages to be sly, stupid, obvious, and creative -- often all at the same time.
10/09/05
Aliens, zombies, meteors, viruses, flying saucers -- you truly have to appreciate how these guys mixed genres and kept up a level of humor and action ...
08/29/05
If only the Spierigs had put as much effort into their writing as they did into the special effects, Undead"might not be such a recycled, redundant bore.
08/25/05
Undead is the sort of movie that people in other horror movies are watching.
08/19/05
Undead is sort of imaginative and considerably scattershot....succeeded only in making me groggy.
08/05/05
This Australian zombie import is … a thoroughly bad movie -- written, acted and shot at the very lowest levels of know-how.
08/02/05
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