Undead: Critic Reviews

It's about as much fun as watching blood dry.

A stale, derivative mess that borrows heavily from every zombie and alien movie worthy of imitation, to only ho-hum effect.

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

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.

Rigor mortis has set in.

Watching it is a smidgen like listening to the same monkey-walks- into-a-bar joke for the 105th time, but for the Spierig brothers, it is clearly a demonstration of fast-cheap capabilities and a one-way ticket straight out of Queensland.

It's downright boring for an hour, then picks up, at least visually, when the zombified are hauled into space and hung there as if in a cosmic closet.

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

The kind of movie that would be so bad it's good, except it's not bad enough to be good enough.

Away from the killing field, the Spierigs' actors prove themselves to be the most zombie-like, devolving into a din of screechy bickering that'll leave you running for the exits.

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

A low-budget, mildly enjoyable oddity.

A modestly budgeted but precociously inventive horror pic that combines brain-eating zombies with outer space aliens.

A campy, low-budget Romero homage that's badly in need of editing.

While the low-budget film serves up a remarkably cost-effective arsenal of wild visual effects, the over-the-top tone gets stale awfully quickly.

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

In fits and starts it's faintly cool, though the tone is all over the place.

An amusingly outrageous Australian variation on the familiar zombie theme, played mostly for laughs.

Undead isn't a joke - it's a punchline. Where's the setup?

Unlikely to satisfy horror fans...but the Spierigs might have a future in this genre if they put more effort and imagination into their scripts.