Dead Men Walking

Rating: 

Year Released: 2005

Zombie Speed: Fast

Cause of Zombie Outbreak: Experimental Bio-Toxin

Best Zombie: Given that this film takes place entirely inside a prison all the zombies are pretty much the same.

Most Creative Weapon: No real creative weapons either, just a guns and a lot of running. Again, not a lot of options inside a prison.

Best Death: A mother and her two children show up in the middle of the prison for some unexplained reason (visiting their dad I guess?). When one of the zombies discovers the family he proceeds to attack the little girl and rip out all her intestines. It was disturbingly amusing to see a little kid trying to act out something so gruesome.

Sub-Genre: Prison Film

Amanda Jean’s Review: Very gory, bad acting, awesome metal songs and a super accurate Mexican gang. The plot wasn’t such a bad idea until I saw The Asylum has another movie with pretty much the same plot except subtract zombies and add a monster. But, oh man, what about that ending? Let me know when Dead Men Walking 2 comes out. Oh and did I mention it’s very gory?

Matt’s Review: The Asylum is a film studio known for its low budget “mock-buster” films created to capitalize on the success of other major films such as Transmorphers, Paranormal Entity, Mega Piranha and Snakes on a Train (most of which fit into the “so bad it’s good” category) however, Dead Men Walking was a rare original story from the studio. Ironically since most zombie films are produced independently with a very low budget, Dead Men Walking was able to utilize The Asylum’s relatively high budget to produce a well made and decent looking film (albeit poorly acted… but what do you expect?). Unfortunately, while its production values allow it to look more polished than your average zombie film, the story is completely unoriginal and devoid of any of the humor that that tends to make the best zombie films stand out among the crowd. All in all, Dead Men Walking is the epitome of an average zombie film with absolutely nothing special to set it apart from the plethora of other films in the genre.

Up next week(ish) is [REC] 2, sequel to the brilliant 2007 Spanish “found footage” film, [REC] (which was remade nearly shot-for-shot as the American film Quarantine)!

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