UnDead: A Movie Review (838 hits)
Category: Movies & TVRating: 1.6 on 14 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by CookieLass (View user info) at 2005-12-10 15:09:09 EST
The next person who grumps at me for being a stoner and asks the question "What good ever came from you being stoned all the time?" will get this answer: being stoned introduced me to Undead.
My best friend's boyfriend, Justin, deserves a shiny crown for telling me about this one. His girlfriend and I had just finished making a LOVELY ham dinner for ourselves and a few friends, and were sitting around the living room basking in the glow of our pipes and Super Mario Kart. The conversation turned, as it so often does when we're stoned at Justin and Moonie's place, to the Zombie Attack Contingency Plan, which opened the door to zombie movie discussion.
Seems Justin had rented this one expecting a crappy, cheesy, horrible attempt at B-movie zombie action, and instead got the best thing to have come out of Australia since Wazza. I will set the tone, but won't give spoilers, just in case everyone decides to go watch it. Which you should.
A meteor shower hits the small Australian town of Berkeley, causing a rash of zombie infections. This is followed by eerie storms of what seems to be some kind of acid rain. Then lights shoot from the sky and abduct all the grasshoppers. That's right. Grasshoppers.
In true zombie-movie tradition, a group of six people are trapped in a decrepit old farmhouse with a crazy man who mysteriously knows exactly what's going on and what to do. The movie goes on to include such gems as: zombie fish being punched in the face, aliens, the meaning of being named Catch of the Day queen, and more creative zombie kills than I've ever seen in one place. The feeling is a little Evil Dead, a little Army of Darkness, ans a little Mars Attacks. I was laughing, I was cringing, I was on my feet cheering at the television.
Allow me to share a few gems: the hero Marion is arguing with the heroine Rene and says, "One day you're out on your boat and you get attacked by zombie fish, they munch at your face, like you're the main course at an all you can eat crazy country boy buffet." ZOMBIE FISH, PEOPLE!
At one point one of the the aliens, ominous tall glowing black-cloaked figures, reveals himself to our heroine by dropping his cloak and giving a meaningful speech. After she leaves the scene, one of the other aliens, still cloaked, says "Okay. Now put your clothes back on, Frank" and the naked alien says, "Why? I'm comfortable with who I am" and walks away. COME ON PEOPLE!
As I said to my good friend Sassmasterr just this morning, don't question the genius, simply comply. You'll all thank me in the morning.
User Reviews
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2005-12-12 04:08:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I don't see the point in zombie fish.
I would find being eaten by a normal living fish as equally distressing as being munched by its undead counterpart.
Flying sharks and land dwelling giant squid, they're the horrors of the future.
Submitted by Oleannder (user info) at 2005-12-10 22:10:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I had been wondering about this one. I think I shall rent it tonight.
Submitted by Creepy_guy (user info) at 2005-12-10 18:58:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-12-10 18:51:45 (#)
Ranking: 2
Yeah, I can't say anything bad about a movie where zombie fish gets punched in the face.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-12-10 18:51:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Yeah, I can't say anything bad about a movie where zombie fish gets punched in the face.
Submitted by SilvrWolf (user info) at 2005-12-10 18:01:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
zombie fish
Submitted by PokeyPecker (user info) at 2005-12-10 16:07:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm watching a Miami Vice A-thon on TVLand. Liam Neeson is in this episode. WTF?
Submitted by PokeyPecker (user info) at 2005-12-10 16:06:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Iago you're an asshole.
Submitted by Iago (user info) at 2005-12-10 16:01:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by Iago (user info) at 2005-12-10 15:50:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2005-12-10 15:28:27 (#)
Ranking: 0
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Submitted by freshspinach (user info) at 2005-12-10 15:48:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I live in NYC and actually saw this thing in a movie theater. Surprisingly good and deserves to become a cult classic.
Submitted by NewGuy08 (user info) at 2005-12-10 15:30:09 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
I'm not a real fan of zoombie movies
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2005-12-10 15:28:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Sassy, you're evil.
Don't click on that link, guys, unless you want to announce to everyone in a 500 mile radius that you're looking at ghey porn.
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2005-12-10 15:13:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
i've been shouted out!
word.
also, mario kart = auto +2
Sassmasterr: mario kart?
Sassmasterr: auto +2
CookieLass: they only ask me to play because I'm always Princess Peach, and she's slow as all get-out, thereby ensuring that none of the others come in 4th.
Sassmasterr: good plan
Submitted by Iago (user info) at 2005-12-10 15:10:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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