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John and
Jennifer are going to their cabin for a romantic
getaway. John decides to take a shortcut but when they
get a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, they have nothing
else to do but to wait until the morning so that they can
walk. But something happens under the night, John gets
bitten and it seems as if there's someone around wanting
to kill them, they have no other choice than but to run
to the cabin in the middle of the night. As John's
condition gets worse, this nightmare has only just begun.
In the vein of 28 Days Later and Dawn Of The Dead? Who
wrote that!? Those movies are way better than this and
they have nothing in common, except for the fact that
they're all kind of zombie flicks. This is a slow paced,
dull, and very uninteresting flick which thinks that it's
more original than it really is. See we follow a couple
and their transformation into zombies, and while this
hasn't exactly been done before, you can easily compare
it to serial killer flicks where the killer talks about
how he didn't want to do it etc etc. Saying that this is
original would be like saying that Python was original
just because it was a new kind of killer snake.
The acting is bad, the movie is poorly executed and with
the budget that it had, one would expect a better looking
result than this. It looks like a nobudget DTV movie but
it actually had a budget of almost 1 million dollars and
come on, Saw and Cabin Fever had the same budget as this
and they looked way better. The story is simple,
predictable and very flawed which just makes the end
result even worse. I can not believe that people actually
enjoyed this film.
Shadows Of The Dead is a very stiff movie and it almost
seems as if they made up the story as they went along,
whatever story there is to it though. Do not trust the
taglines, do not trust the trailers, do not trust the
title and whatever you do, do not trust the cover! This
is a drawn-out tragic mess. At least slow movies like
this manage to get you depressed sometimes but this simply
didn't bring forward any feelings at all. You just wanted
it to be over with.
No gore!? Another evidence that this is not in the vein
of 28 Days Later and Dawn Of The Dead.
Terrible piano music which sounds like it was composed
by a def person.
Ugh! That's really all I have to say. I don't think that
the worst thing was that the movie was so utterly slow,
I think that it was that everything around it got me all
hyped up before I saw it. Don't compare a movie to big
gory zombie flicks if it can't live up to it, that's just
stupid. Avoid this one, it's a dull nonsense movie!
Review By: AnthroFred
