Michael Ledo Just because you can make a zombie movie, doesn't mean you should. Before the zombies are created through a bomb, the TV and phones go out...but airplanes can still fly with their GPS. The film is low budget, lame, boring, bad sound, terrible acting, worse dialogue and virtually lacking a plot.Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

yeodawg First off this is a bro film, a bro his buddy's lots of buddies a camera and a script. Starting off I don't know where the movie stats they have this big half hour monologue about the war and what caused the zombies but its just a bunch of fat people going hunting no zombies. Finally we see police and soldiers goateed hab shab uniformed sent out to protect the shelter. Well didn't the screenwriter have a buddy in the army or something who could've added some jargon? Even Tucker MAX (I hope they served beer in hell/assholes finish first) bragged about his soldier buddies calling people cock-holsters. Here the police preach to the soldiers about deadly force. No soldiers call it R.O.E rules of engagement; the police call it use of force. Anyhow the zombie make up is black and white. The movie fails to deal with man dealing with man during the outbreak its just fat zombies running around. I did like the camera work, felt like you were confused and in the middle of it.

scifiknut First it was Pittsburgh, then Louisville, Ky, and now Baltimore, MD has fallen to the army of the dead in Gary Ugarek's Deadlands: The Rising.When George Romero gave us Night of the Living Dead it was a type of horror movie never seen before, taking the zombie monster and converting it into a cannibalistic killer capable of no emotion or remorse, making it one of the most terrifying monsters in cinema history. Today countless filmmakers have copied or tried to mimic the zombie paradox, some have succeeded and some have flat out failed, but every now and again, in the countless indie zombie horror films, a diamond in the rough that peaks out to grab the attention of zombie film lovers the world over.Deadlands is that diamond. Although very low budget, and with flaws in hand, it has a great 80's movie vibe with a realistic feel and some nice gore, not too mention scenes building suspense are done quite well and the films score is eerily effective and felt in the vein of John Carpenter's musical styling.Zombies are what people want and they will eventually get once they progress through the story of Deadlands. The films plays the angle of an average day turning into the nightmare from hell and although the acting leaves a lot to be desired you can easily see the direction Ugarek was taking when constructing the films story. One thing I want too mention as well is how Ugarek shares a similar trait as Romero, they both like to give the audience a little political commentary in their films. Romero's Land of the Dead had a more in your face approach with the political sub plot whereas Ugarek kept his more subtle and he played on the events surrounding not only 9/11 but hurricane Katrina as well.Deadlands single biggest problem is a very slow start. The first zombie did not appear on screen until the 22:00 mark, but once the dead begin to walk and the blood begins to flow this is where Deadlands takes off and soars. Deadlands is also a little on the short side. The films total running time is about 62:56 seconds, but the actual film and story end at about the 57:00 mark leaving nearly 6 minutes for the closing credits, which has one of the catchiest medleys of the entire films score remixed into one song.I cannot close of this review without giving props to the make-up department. Deadlands didn't go gore crazy, but what carnage does exist is done effectively and on the meager funds Ugarek mentions in the commentary make-up FX supervisor Stephanie Petagno knows how to make the money stretch.Deadlands is probably one of the better indie zombie efforts I have seen in a long time and I feel it is up there with the big boys. If the crew of this film can pull this off for less than $20,000 imagine what they could do with $20,000,000.7 out of 10

engineerguru101 So I sat down with my girlfriend and watched this film we rented from the local video store, we both love zombie films so we figured it has to be at least decent right? Well that is a yes and no scenario.Here we have a film made for no money, and it starts off almost one year into the zombie apocalypse with a woman writing in her journal about the events that led to the dreaded zombiegeddon. Soon after we are wound backwards to the day it all started and these two buddies are out on a drinking shooting spree to blow off steam. (I don't think mixing alcohol and guns was a very smart thing to do here, but whatever it isn't really the point.) As the day progresses further along an explosion rocks the city and suddenly things are thrown into chaos. As the city is evacuated we are treated to one of the most annoying performances from some woman chastising her husband about not asking for directions, and the over used story arc of a little girl who lost her mom, at this point my girlfriend and I were praying these people were eaten alive in the most painful of manners.The second most annoying story or characters have to be the National Guard soldiers. As a member of the guard I almost felt insulted. I say almost because at least they were good for laugh.Now nearly 20 some minutes have gone by and not one zombie pops up on screen. We were about to turn it off when finally the zombies show up and tear some poor cop to shreds. All that time to get to the good stuff, and then the film did get better from there. After that scene we immediately return to the traffic jam full of evacuees and the zombies begin to invade and attack. This ladies and gentlemen is the single best sequence of the entire film. The zombies tear through the unsuspecting motorists as violently as possible and the gore delivers when some poor woman has her throat torn out. The girlfriend and I finally started to get interested in the film, but that was as good as it gets. As the rest of the film played on each action sequence tried to get the same momentum going but fell short. What a shame as it started to get much better but ended up falling flat.The question is, would I recommend this film? Give it a rent if you can find it. Just be prepared to sit it out before the film actually begins to build momentum. Better luck next time, if there is a next.