Review of Awaken the Dead (2007) by Andrew R — 17 Apr 2011
No, don't.
This is another low-budget, unoriginal zombie flick. Every expense has been spared. The zombie make-up looks unconvincing, and the zombies themselves are like lumbering Romero creations in some scenes and rage virus victims in others. The acting, when it exists at all, is amateurish. The plot's been done to death. The government is testing a virus that turns people into the perfect weapon. They've quarantined yet another town (apparently, San Bernardino this time). There are yet more government spooks pulling strings behind the scenes. In this one, the zombies don't attack government people for reasons never explained; we see a plain clothes spy lurking among the crowds of zombies in several scenes and they ignore him. In the flick's climax, though, we learn that the government agents are protecting themselves with "radiation towers" that look exactly like cheap space heaters one might pick up from Loew's.
Loaded with inconsistencies, riddled with bad writing and all filmed in digital video that some scenes are hard to see at all. Viewers of a certain age may be reminded of the days when rabbit ear antennae were on every TV and one sometimes had to strain to pick the picture out of static snow.
Pass this one by unless you're an aficionado of the "we can make it at home for ten cents" school of amateur film-making.
This review of Awaken the Dead (2007) was written by Andrew R on 17 Apr 2011.
Awaken the Dead has generally received negative reviews.
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