Undead
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: July 1, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
9
Negative:
9
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70
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
What really grabs your attention about Undead, however, are the effects. For a movie budgeted under $1 million, the Spierigs have done an amazing job putting together believable visuals. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
This gory, ghoulishly funny horror goof is shameless fun in its own right. Read full review
60
VarietyDavid Stratton
Precociously inventive horror pic that combines brain-eating zombies with outer space aliens. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
There's nothing under the goofball gags and gushing gore, and its welcome is worn out well before it's over. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
A campy, low-budget Romero homage that's badly in need of editing. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephen Hunter
It gets duller and duller as it turns out to have used up all its amusing tricks in that first 30 minutes. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Initially artsy, then campy, then tense, it would have worked better if writer-directors Peter and Michael Spierig had kept everything serious and let the inherent absurdism of zombie attacks speak for itself without additional ironic comment. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyTim Grierson
Flesh-eating fish notwithstanding, Peter and Michael Spierig's low-budget schlock-horror parody brings precious little new to the undead genre. Read full review
40
The New York TimesLaura Kern
In the end, the film is a stale, derivative mess that borrows heavily from every zombie and alien movie worthy of imitation, to only ho-hum effect. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
The over-the-top tone gets stale awfully quickly -- especially once it becomes clear that it's all wacky style over any real attempt at substance. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
As always, there's the combustible band of mismatched survivors. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
In Undead, sadly, rigor mortis has set in. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The kind of movie that would be so bad it's good, except it's not bad enough to be good enough. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
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. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
However visually striking, this Australian film is ultimately as tedious as it is derivative. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The story is more undead than all of these revenant shufflers. And the orgy of gore and home-engineered special effects doesn't make up for the shortfall. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
If only they didn't cannibalize their source material so much, then take an extreme rule reversal just before the end credits, they might have achieved something original, rather than just a fan-fiction derivation of George A. Romero's canon. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Gore fans will dig the makeup effects and some of the tongue-in-cheek slice-&-dice. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
At best a little boring and at worst stomach-churningly offensive. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
On the level of a no-budget student film in which the shots barely match up into sequences. It's about as much fun as watching blood dry. Read full review
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