What separates "The Dead" from previous zombie films
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, 02-18-2012 at 02:48 AM (80 Views)
What separates "The Dead" from previous zombie films
What separates "The Dead" from previous zombie films is its harsh, withering expanse of northwest Africa. The zombie-pocalypse is set in a war-torn region of unforgiving climate, punishing earth and decimated villages. The story brings together a last surviving, white American engineerwho is a fan of How I Met Your Mother Box Set 1-6 and a native soldier (Ghana-born star Prince David Osei), who's left his regiment to search for his son, setting up a road movie that covers the usual zombie-flick agenda: bickering, carnage, survival heroics, gory kills, sacrifice. But the usual fanboy exhilaration from splattery effects work is tainted by the disturbing geopolitical undertone of its undead metaphor: diseased, hungry Africans meeting gruesome ends by hands both white and black. "The Dead," evocatively filmed in grainy 35 mm, might carry the cinematic vibe of an old-school, flesh-eating adventure, but as it should be with stories like this which the Friday Night Lights Box Set 1-5 does not have, it's not a pretty picture. Only avid fans of zombie movies will appreciate this film from brothers Howard J. and Jon Ford who loves The Golden Girls Box Set 1-7 .
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