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When deadly meteorites start striking the calm, peaceful community of Berkeley, Australia, a ragtag group of strangers fight for their lives against a hoard of red-blooded zombies that have mysterious... read more read more...ly infected the residents. Headed by the town's ex-beauty queen Rene (Felicity Mason) and the village kook, Marion (Mungo McKay), the clan of survivors battle their way through farmhouses, bomb shelters, and back roads until they are faced with a much bigger problem than just the gut-munchers on their trail. The debut feature of writer/directors Michael and Peter Spierig, the film was two and a half years in the making, echoing other no-budget splatter epics like Peter Jackson's Bad Taste and other similarly themed sci-fi horror romps. It went on to garner accolades from the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain, among others. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Michael Spierig, Michael and Peter Sperig, Peter Spierig

Release Date: July 1, 2005

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DVD Release Date: October 11, 2005

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  • WrenchLT
    January 30, 2011
    WrenchLT
    Probably the most bizarre and unpredictable Zombie movie ever! This low-budget Aussie effort starts off as an extremely gory and darkly comic "Shaun of the the Dead" type flick, then things get a little... weird! Too weird for me. But I enjoyed the first half of the film deliveri... read moreng some very good bloody action despite the low-budget.
  • Stinger839
    September 7, 2008
    Stinger839
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    This is one of my top indie zombie flix, and I prefer it better to its other Australian peer Braindead by Peter Jackson. Though some audience members are frustrated with the genre-blurring that occurs because the film-makers are looking to... read more up the visual ante of their movie, and they are thusly accused of being Spielbergian because of some of their additional creatures design and action-based horror scenes. I think it's all done just right, including the occasionally stiff acting. There are so many innovative zombie scenes, my favorite being a pair of walking legs with accompanying spinal cord, sans a torso. The protagonists are given action-style cinematic hyping, but it's justified and cool, not unnecessary and forced. Here's a zombie movie that not only bothers with continuity and structure, but the independent film-makers, two brothers, behind it further proved their dedication to this project by doing all of the CGI themselves on a 700mhz processor computer, for three years after shooting concluded. These effects are on par, and in some cases better, to what big Hollywood bucks is turning out even years later. This is truly proof that auteurs are still alive and, beyond that, still bothering to work with a concept/genre considered exhausted like zombies. Overlooked by zombie fans and totally misunderstood by mainstream viewers.
  • MidnightMadwoman
    July 19, 2008
    MidnightMadwoman
    I think the goal of this movie is to make a campy throwback movie that evokes the movies that the Sperig brothers loved growing up. It's like an Australian equivalent of Slither. But with much less finesse. But what it lacks in elegance is makes up for in sheer exhuberance, gore ... read moreand giddiness. The comparison to Brain Dead is apt: it makes as much sense and is as much fun to watch. Aliens, and zombies, and killer acid rain, and hicks who know some sort of upside-down shotgun karate. I enjoyed this movie, but it lacked the freshness and novelty that was so delightful about Jackson's film.
  • FilmFanatik
    May 11, 2008
    FilmFanatik
    This movie isn't good horror, comedy, schlock or any other genre I can fit in into. It's terrible in all categories. Avoid like the plague. I want my 90 mins back.
  • garyX
    January 31, 2008
    garyX
    A meteor shower hits a small fishing town in Australia, and the locals spontaneously turn into flesh eating zombies. And yes, we have a small group of survivors holing up in remote house in the woods, a gun toting Clint-esque hero and every other cliche associated with the genre.... read more Essentially, it's 28 Days Later without the laughs, which considering it's supposed to be a comedy is not a great start. Touting itself as the Australian Shaun Of The Dead, it lacks all the wit and subtlety of that film, the script coming across as an ill conceived sitcom with gratuitous blood and guts that the writers seemed to be making up as they went along. Throw in some Hot Fuzz style action cliches and a Twilight Zone style ending and you have an extensive hotch potch of ideas, but not one of which is remotely original. In a comedy, this of course does not matter as long as it's funny. It isn't.
  • mjgildea
    September 4, 2007
    mjgildea
    I saw it a while ago and remember liking it. It started off silly, started aping John Woo from a style standpoint and just got outlandish and ridiculous. Not the good kind either. Worth seeing, but not owning.
  • nuheart
    December 25, 2006
    nuheart
    Pure shite. More proof that Australians have no idea what they're doing when it comes to horror.
  • MovieGeek13
    December 6, 2006
    MovieGeek13
    There's just too much going on. We have an alien invasion, zombies (zombie fish), people coming in and out of zombie states. and none of these are fully developed. It tries to go for so bad, it's good status, but it's just bad.
  • michaelneumann
    July 25, 2005
    michaelneumann
    This entry was supposed to be posted last week. I did not post it last week because I have an excuse. A most grand excuse. One that would surely incite the reaction, "Oh, that explains it," and then you would understand completely.

    Fortunately, I did not miss the power outage l... read moreast week. Nay, [i]three[/i] power outages here in Denver. These California imitations are courtesy of the boiling sky of last week...breaking records from the 1800's. I think it was 5 consecutive 100-106 degree days (in the midst of 20 straight 90+ degree days), thus melting the mountains and leaving the city with a sticky view of Utah. Ah, well. The nighttime neighborhood never looked better in such blackness. Electricity is an obnoxious guest sometimes. With every passing vehicle (when I was 'cooling down' in the night heat) I did my most subtle zombie, hoping to inspire mass zombie invasion panic. I've got to work on it a smidge.

    PS.- I was off on another undisclosed adventure this past weekend. That sort of tied me up.

    Okay...a few long overdue NYC pics:
    (drag...I saved the images as bitmaps...they're much smaller than I anticipated)

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/whenbillboardsattack.bmp[/img]
    What if all the billboards were paintings? Or, at least, separate scenes in a Calvin & Hobbes comic strip. No no, simply too good of offerings for garish Times Square. (though some pictured here were tolerable)

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/pointingbuilding.bmp[/img]
    Does it look like its pointing at something to you, too?

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/bigshotkermie.bmp[/img]
    Have you ever seen a frog so big?

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/sistercitybanner2.bmp[/img]
    Ground Zero had a banner signing for London two days after the bombing.

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/sistercitybanner.bmp[/img]
    I signed it.

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/danger.bmp[/img]
    1. A small, blurry molecule floating near One New York Plaza
    2. Gum
    3. The man who owns my camera

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/shoebird.bmp[/img]
    Lovely wildlife in NYC.

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/somepeopleImet.bmp[/img]
    The people are nice, too. A little strange, but it might just be my imagination.

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/buildingsinthepond.bmp[/img]
    Even more reflectier in person.

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/palemale.bmp[/img]
    So I happened to plop on a bench with a couple of Central Park birdwatchers. The circled area is the nest of Pale Male, a resident red tail hawk since 1994, with a vast white belly. 23 offspring now occupy the park. Hey, buddy, I only asked for the time, not for an extensive local avian history. Some people.

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/crossingguards.bmp[/img]
    Instead of surveillance cameras, NYC employs vicious, flesh-eating pygmy attack pigeons for the red light runners.

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/Spamalot.bmp[/img]
    It's just a flesh wound.

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/AlanTudyk.bmp[/img]
    Alan Tudyk (was awesome)

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/DavidHydePierce.bmp[/img]
    David Hyde Pierce (is totally short)

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/PickleBrothers.bmp[/img]
    My friends at the Stage Deli that night. I left the dark green "pickle" as an unspoken sign to the waitress...that dark green "pickles" taste like heck and back. His pickle buddy was effing scrumptious, however.

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/ThatOneGuy.bmp[/img]
    R.I.P. temporary beard

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/coneyisland.bmp[/img]
    "Goodbyyyye my Coney Island baaaaabe!"

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/ahoymateys.bmp[/img]
    Yarrr! 'Tis the finest pirate ship kite I laid me salt-pricked peepers 'pon.

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/cyclone.bmp[/img]
    No coaster is safe with the Daddy in town. (this one was pretty darn good, too)

    [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/neumdaddy/ghastly.bmp[/img]
    Much of the rest of the amusement parks (yes, they had a couple), however, were creepy husks of extinct fun. It was kind of cool, actually.

    LATER THAT DAY...

    I proceeded to miss my flight. Yay airport stress!
  • fb25827189
    July 3, 2009
    fb25827189
    Okay so if you have seen Peter Jackson's Bad Taste then this film may seem a bit familiar with it's Zombie/Alien plot and it's all around kookiness. But that is where any comparison ends, as Undead is a very hyper-stylized and imaginative take on a style of horror that has had tr... read moreouble finding a lot of critical success outside of Australia. But with such a pretty country as it's backdrop and loads of great effects, and characters. Undead unravels into a really cool little film to watch, despite some plot issues that cause a little confusion, at least with me Undead is worth a look for those who enjoy a good gore filled Zom-Com.

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Critic Reviews

Michael Booth
July 15, 2005
Michael Booth, Denver Post

No amount of Zombie Rules can explain a movie like this, or the recent filmmaker fascination with a creaky old genre. Full Review

Richard Roeper
July 11, 2005
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

I'm definitely zombied out. Full Review

Tom Long
July 8, 2005
Tom Long, Detroit News

A low-budget, mildly enjoyable oddity.

Ty Burr
July 8, 2005
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Rigor mortis has set in. Full Review

Terry Lawson
July 8, 2005
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

The film's genre-merging cleverness works against it, and releasing it in the wake of George Romero's zombie knockout Land of the Dead invites comparisons that may be unfair but inevitable. Full Review

Peter Hartlaub
July 8, 2005
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

There are about 2,000 hard-core Fangoria readers in the Bay Area who are going to absolutely love this film. But the 6,698,000 other residents will find it at best a little boring and at worst stomach... Full Review

Stephen Hunter
July 8, 2005
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

Seeing people die in funny ways loses interest after a bit. Full Review

Kevin Thomas
July 7, 2005
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

However visually striking, this Australian film is ultimately as tedious as it is derivative. Full Review

Desson Thomson
July 7, 2005
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

The storyline becomes pretty tedious, thanks to an incredibly slow beginning and a scenario based entirely on running around in circles to get away from the undead. Full Review

Colin Covert
July 7, 2005
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

The film will frighten only those with phobias about boredom and amuse only viewers with expectations lower than the filmmaker's miniscule budget. Full Review

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