Undead

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Undead

R

Released Feb 27, 2003

1h 44m

Horror

Comedy

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78 Reviews

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Survivors (Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins) band together after a meteor shower transforms the residents of an Australian fishing village into flesh-eating zombies.

Critics Consensus

This low-budget homage to the zombie genre borrows heavily from superior predecessors and revels in a pile of its own campiness -- neither original nor watchable enough to entertain.

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Empire Magazine

Rated: 2/5

Apr 1, 2006

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

There's barely a brainwave in Undead.

Rated: C-

Sep 10, 2005

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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.

Rated: 1/4

Jul 15, 2005

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Tim Brayton

Alternate Ending

In its zeal to be more than just a zombie film, it loses sight of what makes a zombie film work in the first place.

Rated: 1.5/5

Jul 20, 2020

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

[A]n admirable job of providing almost every zombie effect known to mankind, yet fall[s] short when it comes to deciding if the film is to be interpreted as a parody or to be taken for the seriousness of the zombie situation.

Nov 3, 2019

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Adele Hartley

The List

The Spierig brothers aim high, and have managed to create (on a criminally low budget) an exuberant, absurd wake.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 23, 2019

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David R

I really enjoyed this movie. Don't be fooled thinking it's "just another zombie movie." Nope. This one has its Aussie tongue planted firmly in its cheek. Though it's no "Shaun of the Dead," it's still a pretty cool romp. Instead of a hapless cricket-bat-wielding protagonist, you have a local beauty pageant winner kicking ass alongside a huge backwoods fisherman dude that employs a tri-shotgun apparatus and does flips and other crazy fight moves that would leave many-a-mainstream-hero in the dust. Lots of gore. Lots of silly sci-fi. Lots of fun! (Loved Felicity Mason)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/30/24

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justin t

The gore is joyful in its entirety but tragically that is all that this film has going for it. The story is a bit confusing and boring. The acting is fine and there are some funny moments as well as some violent moments. This sadly fails to capture even half the spirit of Peter Jackson's early frolics in black comedy. Impressive considering the roots and background of this but otherwise mildly disappointing.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Joel C

This film is a bit tough to get through, the characters are pretty unlikeable and not the best acting. The directors seem to be going for some sort of quirky comedy type world which isn't executed very well. The action and gore scenes just never seem to be what their trying to achieve (why don't they shoot for the head?), and that three barrel shotgun just seems to be a waste of ammo. I read somewhere that they did the FX themselves, and for that I give them props because some of it looks really cool and continues to build til the end. I liked the look of the alien and the sky scenes.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

05/07/21

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Audience Member

Campy zombie/alien invasion pic tries really, really hard.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

mala y pendeja y aburridora. No la terminé de ver

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Audience Member

Lol What a wacky fuckin movie! So ridiculous and out there, but loads of Zombie fun.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Synopsis

Survivors (Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins) band together after a meteor shower transforms the residents of an Australian fishing village into flesh-eating zombies.

Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Producer: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
Screenwriter: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Distributor: Art Port
Production Co: Spierigfilm
Rating: R (Violence|Language|Gore)
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 27, 2003, Wide
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Jul 1, 2005
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $30.3K
Runtime: 1h 44m