I mean, come one! The writer/producer/director can not have been serious!!! If he was then this really is the worst film i've ever seen. Godawful! Not even all the gratuitous nudity could save it! And why was no-one fazed by the fact that there were 5 suns in the sky??? I'm really without words...
sharei agree, saw this film last night and didnt get it at all, one minute she is being raped by her husband but it then cuts to her having sex with that other guy!.
Then she is is being strangled by someone in the bath but suddenly its as if it never happend!!!
this is easily the worst film i have seen!!
the acting was like a porn film but without the sex
Run from this film!!!
Stephen
Oh Sit, I just paid £3.50 to rent this movie out.....WHY WHY WHY!!!.
The things I could have done with that £3.50.
I agree with the two above me, this is the worst film I think I have ever seen, steer well clear.
Red Devil UK
I picked it up from Sainsburys for £1.99 thinking it was a remake of Dawn Of The Dead (misread the Dawn of the Living Dead Title). It wasn't worth £1.99 let alone £3.50.
The continuity is quite a laugh. Bloke wears a patterned shirt as he leaves the house and is wearing a grey t-shirt when he arrives outside. That is the highlight of the film.
I think someone wondered why Romero doesn't sue. He really doesn't have to as this is no competition. Its crap.
You know, I agree.
I went to the local Blockbusters looking for some horror flicks to enjoy on a Halloween night. Finally found this thinking it was Dawn of the Dead, so I picked it up without really looking much past the picture. How wrong I was, how wrong I was.
Absolutely terrible acting and the random nudity was just awkward. The plot itself was absolutely terrible - a friend of mine guessed the ending about 10 minutes through and he was bang on - definitely stay clear of this movie.
Also, how the hell does Romero not sue?
sharethis movie is ridiculous, it's the worst zombie flick I've ever seen
shareIf you think that then you couldnt of seen many. For christs sake, its a low budget zombie movie. Personally, I found it hilarious. The plot was really quite trippy in places, there were a couple of new things that a zombie connoisseur wouldnt have seen before, and some completely random CGI sections. It seems that many of the morons who have posted on the message boards have attacked the movie solely because it wasnt the movie they thought it was. That makes you a bit of a retard doesnt it?
Why doesnt Romero sue? You guys really cant be all that clued up about the world of horror!! Since god knows when people have been making films that trade on the name of past classics. Like many of the more informed people who post on these boards say, if you buy a cheap looking movie for £3 or £4, just what the hell were you expecting to get?
What's hilarious about this movie is the fact that people are being suckered into buying or renting this garbage in the first place. I found my copy prominently displayed among other higher quality titles at my local Walmart.
Here are David Heavener's grades for Dawn of the Living Dead:
Acting: D-
Score: F
Screenwriting: F
Makeup Effects: C-
Gore Effects: F
Editing: D-
Directing: F-
Speaking of "not being clued up about the world of horror", looks a lot like Mr David Heavener isn't much at all clued up about the world of filmmaking in general. I don't care how long David Heavener has been "in the business," this movie showed a blatant lack of respect, passion, and skill, not just about the art of filmmaking, but for the simplest of cinema rules: Tell a good story and don't be sloppy about it.
I just bought this film, and I know what I am getting into. I have been a David Heavener fan for years. No, I am not some moron who knows nothing about film. I happen to have a Master's Degree, and I taught film theory for awhile.
Actually, I grabbed up this gem because I used to watch David Heavener's films in college. Why? Because he inhabits a weird netherworld in the bad movie pantheon. Think Ed Wood Jr. with a raging ego. Either Heavener is laughing at us all, or he is actually that clueless to the shortcomings of his films.
I think Heavener has talent. I just don't think we see much of it in his films. But the fact remains, Heavener does have a gift for getting these low-budget howlers made with whatever Z-list actors he can track down and then finding a distributor. That's better than I could do with my own film.
Next season of American Idol, just try to get through the first couple of shows---while they're still auditioning potentials (and those with not so much potential)---and think about the following: Somewhere along their way to that audition, at various points throughout their lives, the worst singers all believed, were lead to believe and/or duped others into believing, that they could indeed sing; that they had all the talent that it took to stand out among thousands and thousands of other people who are all convinced of the same thing. For many, if not all of the bad ones, there is a cloud of cluelessness that surrounds them that prevents them from realizing just how really bad they suck. Occassionaly, a few slip through the cracks and end up in a recording studio and maybe an album gets cut or a single hits the airwaves. The fact will still remain, even if they can bulls#!+ an eskimo into buying a bag of ice, that these people are devoid of talent.
Of course it's just my personal opinion, but that's how I feel about Heavener's body of directorial work. He's a total ham of an actor and an atrocious, DISASTER of a filmmaker! Again, just my opinion. :-)
ok, there is one scene which sums up the whole movie. the husband is inside the house, wearing a blue shirt or something, he runs outside and is wearing a different shirt, then runs back in and returns to the previous shirt. awful.
shareThat is a very funny episode - but in the same scene, as he is chasing his wife, he bloody nearly falls over outside. LOL!
shareSay any bad thing you want about this film but there's no way the gore effects were an F. Who came up with these worthless grades anyways? There's been dozens if not hundreds of horror movies made after this with godawful CG even practical gore effects much worse than those in this movie. The gore was probably the highlight of this film and while it didn't have a ton of it what was there was pretty well done. And who in their right mind wouldn't enjoy watching Martin Sheen's more talented twin getting torn apart and devoured?
sharecome ONE?
shareI've got to wonder if this movie is worse than Forest of the living dead. The "plot" in that one was awful. The acting, especially the two idiots trying to do a french-canadian accent, was awful. The effects were terrible. Their idea of a zombie is someone with black paint under their eyes. I did a better job at zombie makeup for about $6 on halloween.
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I just bought this DVD from Wal-Mart for $14.99 and just finished watching it and I feel absolutely sick. I feel dirty, confused and ashamed for spending this much money on this travesty. I feel suckered because it says that it's a cross between Dawn Of The Dead and 28 Days Later. Those are two of my favorite movies ever and this garbage is nothing like those classics. I am not one of those picky people who hate everything they see; on the flip side I tend to like more than the average person. I give low budget films a chance and take them for what they are, but this is ridiculous. The one positive thing I will say is that the makeup effects weren't terrible and were quite average.
A 2.6 is a little high of a rating if you ask me. Stay away from crapfest. This is almost as bad as Zombie Nation and Zombiez. House of the Dead is a classic compared to this. So imagine how bad it is!
i can understand a film being crap but what i don't understand is how no one in it seems to be really shocked or suprised that there are loads of suns in the sky!
shareok, moving on past the bad acting.....the bad filming.....the bad movie itself.....5 suns...sure why not? little girl zombie realizing that her families way to salvation was to stop them from eating the chick....sure why not? bulging eye'd zombie baby magically killing the man without the use of arms or legs.....sure why not? but what what exactly was up with the little girl at the end??? I can deal with horrible explanations, i can enjoy horrible movies, but i absolutely hate it when they have some big unexplained twist at the end. hmmmm she saved the families soul so shes just gonna adopt random zombie children that look perfectly normal til they get hungry?
btw....stupid film. i want a refund on the time i spent watching it.
.....everything about me is a lie, least it seems that way when i look in your eyes.....
I ordered the "Day of the Dead" 2008 remake offline from a store. for a few bucks. Put the DVD in and sat down and this came on instead. Hoping I can get a refund at my local Mall.
Why did I order online you ask? Well the site has a bigger selection. Plus it was free shipping and 15% off. So I figured why not?