Zombies in Film: The Dead Undead

"How do you kill something that is already dead?"


Film: The Dead Undead
Directed by Matthew Anderson and Edward Conna
Written by Edward Conna
Produced by ?
Year: 2010

Story: "We call them ZVs... Zombie Vampires." They have the speed and strength of vampires but are mindless and even harder to kill, like zombies. They are basically just feral vampires, except they have to have they're heads destroyed or burning up in the daylight. Only that apparently isn't true because m film are killed by swords slicing their stomachs or lots of bullets in the torso, and the only memorable kill is a zombie in a wheelchair being set on fire.

Survival Lessons/not really:

• If you are shouting, you are probably not the calm one.
• Nothing is impossible, just difficult.
• Destroy the brain completely.
• If someone has been infected the only good use for them is to run into melee with a big sword and slow the horde down.
• When you die while fighting zombies you go to Valhalla.
• If your loved one turns into a vampire, you turn into a zombie... yep.
• Vampires are not immune to zombie bites... yep.

Warning: Below are spoilers.

 What's going on? That is the biggest question in this movie. Who is human, who is vampire, who is zombie? And why do the zombies look like vampires? What the movie does show is how a bunch of kids in the woods have no chance of surviving, but trained paramilitary types have a good chance by being prepared. And the big Valhalla fight scene? Not sure why it's there but hey, who doesn't want a pointless emotional medieval battle in the middle of a zombie movie. Oh wait! That's how you turn into a vampire! Maybe? Or is that how you turn your loved one into a zombie? Sorry ZV, zombie vampire, really? Couldn't come up with a better name hey? Oh yeah and there are racism issues being addressed. But everyone in the cast is Caucasian. Hold on, now we are in the Vietnam war. Oh and the Wild West. This movie has more chaos in it than a game of the Warp from Warhammer 40k and makes even less sense.

Stay vigilant, may the infection never reach you, and those close to you have the resolve to do what is needed should you be so unfortunate, Mike D.