Review of Survival of the Dead (2010) by Tim B — 05 Oct 2010
This is more an old school family rivalry story than it is about the Zombie apocalypse.
The film starts out with a soldier who is tired of the war with the zombies doing a monologue that really doesn't serve a purpose. Everything they were showing us was giving us the story and the bad voice over was just distracting. The acting as a whole in this movie is pretty bad but I wasn't expecting much from this straight to DVD gore flick.
The majority of the action takes place on the island that the two families live and feud on. One group wants to kill all the zombies and clear the island of the living dead so they can live out their lives apart from whats happening in the world and the other family is intent on keeping the zombies alive in hopes that a cure can be found.
This leads to more of a war between the survivors than a battle to live through the rising of the dead and it started to bore me. They wanted us to feel for these characters and I just didn't. I was fine when one by one they all started to drop.
Another issue with the movie was that there was a little too much CGI work when it came to killing the zombies. It gave the movie a pretty cheap look and took away from the eeriness the zombie film should have. Plus it seemed a little too bright and clean and that made the zombie make up come off as silly.
Over all... I've seen worse. But that doesn't mean I would want to see this one again anytime soon.
This review of Survival of the Dead (2010) was written by Tim B on 05 Oct 2010.
Survival of the Dead has generally received negative reviews.
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