Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Michael Ledo A group of people hold up in what looks like a storage unit building while the city is in an infernal and zombies are roaming around. The film had a list of bads that include: acting, sound, camera angles, dialogue, and script. Chantal Koerner was annoying.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Get a punch on the hacker's card for this one.

torslander2001 A friend of mine lent me this film recently from his considerable collection of horror/zombie films. He assured me it was far worse than anything my former classmates at university had made during their media production degree course, ten years ago, using MiniDV camcorders and a flaky Apple editing program. He told me it was the worst film in history. Rubbish, I argued. Have you seen "Plan 9 From Outer Space"? Or "Shrunken Heads"? No, he said, but watch it. Honestly. It'll change your life.So I did. And do you know what? Rise of the Undead really is the worst film I've ever seen in 32 years of academic studies, preview screenings, website reviews and DVD collecting. This film is an abomination - the unflushable log laid by independent film-makers in the U-bend of horror movies. It's hard to really pinpoint why to anyone who hasn't seen it, because every single component is truly rotten (sorry). The script resembles the anodyne ramblings of a D&D-obsessed teenager, the dialogue is hackneyed third-rate waffling, the director clearly thought non-linear scene editing and randomly coloured lens filters would engender a macabre ambiance rather than simply nausea, the supposed plot twist at 55 minutes will have you clutching your head in despair at the hour you've just wasted, and the acting...oh dear God, the acting. Never has the end of the world been greeted with such apparent indifference. Apart from the girl who screams a lot - so much so, at one point she actually emits two screams simultaneously.Indeed, probably the most appalling element of this film is the sound production, with entire chunks of dialogue rendered (mercifully) inaudible. I'd guess the person "in charge" of the sound used a unidirectional mic instead of an omnidirectional one, because voices range from muffled to bellicose depending on how far they are from the camera. The occasional plink-plonk of sub-"Clockwork Orange" synth music does precisely nothing for the atmosphere, and despite being a huge fan of heavy metal, the closing credits music annoyed me so much I had to mute it. Think "Funny Games", only more incongruous.I would recommend this film to two groups of people: (a) Film and media students, so they can avoid some of the most glaring errors in their own work, and (b) People who like to get bladdered on a Friday night and laugh their arses off at a bad film with their friends. The rest of you? Avoid like the plague. No pun intended.

CHUDtheBUD Hey, I'm a fan of so-bad-so-good movies but there's nothing so-bad-so-good about Rise Of The Undead. It's just so-bad and that's it. No redeeming cheese, no unintentional humor, nothing! - boring apocalyptic Zombie (The "Undead" : a few people with hardly any make up) nonsense with lame special effects (if you can call those effects), dumb plot and annoying actors. They also have the nerve to rip off and quote from other (better) movies (Resident Evil, Dawn Of The Dead & Night Of The Comet) and managed to put me to sleep on the side. However, it was Rise Of My Eyelids once the end credits rolled though. My advice: save your money. It's not even worth a rental, unless you want to p*ss off and/or put some people to sleep then go ahead and give it a spin. You've been warned ;)

agentjuan A violent, sinister little film, made for perhaps less than a month's salary, but with interesting experimental sound effects and other quirks. The acting ranges from over-the-top to underwhelming, but this is a horror movie, and for a horror movie, it's not only pretty creepy and occasionally shocking, but with demented humor that comes out of left-field and never intentionally just for comic relief.Horton and Hubbel are not as interested in the dramatics of an apocalypse. They appear to be interested more specifically in the stripping down of all things, the humanity that is at our core, and the way only the most horrible situations (an apocalypse, on top of another horror which I won't give away) brings out that core humanity. The script and camera linger on the relationships people form when surrounded and beaten down to nothing. It's interesting to watch, and creepy to behold.This is a promising first film. This is perfect for the viewer who is interested in movies few have heard about, so as to be the first to spread the word.