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Overall Grade: C+
Story: D
Acting: C+
Direction: B
Visuals: B+
Awful, yet good
by David (movies profile) Dec 4, 2005
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Hello, Mr. Gibbs
This movie was by far one of the worst movies I've ever seen besides "Slackers" for a plot. It was although, the most gory movie I've ever seen which slightly redeemed it. Gore... gore... gore and more gore. This man had one messed up time. The main chardter: Fernando, or whatever his name was... just was very... well, he didn't see anything that was happening around him. His mom turned into a zombie, the nurse turned into a zombie... well, even before that, his mom ate his girlfriend's dog, and the girlfriend was really surprised for a secong "your mother ate my dog" then she left, came back later and they had sex. WHAT?! No one in the movie thought this was abnormal... just weird for a second. And whatever happened to the guy that ate the pudding with zombie blood in it? Did he turn into a zombie and eat everyone at his house party? They never tell you. Also, the ending gets rediculous as the mom turns into a giant super zombie. It made the movie seem too much like a videogame and she was the final boss. Not too good for a movie thing. Also, if it's a blood-transmitted disease, why were they kissing eachother at the end as they were all covered with blood and gore? The girlfriend also got bit by a zombie on top of the stairs then then Fernando swung over on the light and intestine and kicked the zombie's ass. She got bitten on the arm... why was she not a zombie? Even after all the falls in the story, the part where fernando strapped a lawnmover to his chest and ran through the house party hacking up almost 60 people in one or two passings... leaving nothing left but some blood and guts on the floor all over. That was cool. The earlier part with the uncle chopping up the zombies in the kitchen just wasn't very believable or cool. Coolness factor for uncle = 0. Wait, there were a few other redeamable parts like the priest who jusmped out in the graveyard and said "I KICK ASS FOR THE LORD" that was rediculous and funny. Also the other part where the kid's uncle came over and two of the zombies were having sex in the kitchen and one had jammed a spoon through his head after they were chowing tranquilizers. Why did he keep the zombies in his house? what an idiot. Those kinds of thigns just make you angry throughout the movie as the character still FAILS TO REALIZE that they just MAYBE trying to eat him or kill him and dissembowel him and rip his face off and rip his ribs out, they're just too stoned to remember to kill him. They obviously show later that they all have the ability to kill everyone in one sweep. The story actually did redeem itself when you figure out the mother killed the father and lied to the son about it, and then kept the bar slut in a box in the attic. That was interesting. All-in-all the movie wasn't very "plotful" but had it's action-gore moments. Truly one of a kind.

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