UNDEAD (2003)

All Critics (83) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (52) | DVD (16)

No amount of Zombie Rules can explain a movie like this, or the recent filmmaker fascination with a creaky old genre.

July 15, 2005 Full Review

Michael Booth

Denver Post

Top Critic

I'm definitely zombied out.

July 11, 2005 Full Review | Comment (1)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

A low-budget, mildly enjoyable oddity.

July 8, 2005

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Rigor mortis has set in.

July 8, 2005 Full Review

Ty Burr

Boston Globe

Top Critic

The film's genre-merging cleverness works against it, and releasing it in the wake of George Romero's zombie knockout Land of the Dead invites comparisons that may be unfair but inevitable.

July 8, 2005 Full Review

Terry Lawson

Detroit Free Press

Top Critic

There are about 2,000 hard-core Fangoria readers in the Bay Area who are going to absolutely love this film. But the 6,698,000 other residents will find it at best a little boring and at worst stomach-churningly offensive.

July 8, 2005 Full Review

Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

In fits and starts it's faintly cool, though the tone is all over the place.

January 21, 2010 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

An amusingly outrageous Australian variation on the familiar zombie theme, played mostly for laughs.

July 16, 2008 Full Review

Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

Undead isn't a joke - it's a punchline. Where's the setup?

October 3, 2007 Full Review

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

Zombies galore, buckets of blood, and a non-stop action flick with quirky characters.

June 21, 2007 Full Review

Jason Gorber

Film Scouts

Unlikely to satisfy horror fans...but the Spierigs might have a future in this genre if they put more effort and imagination into their scripts.

March 1, 2007 Full Review

Ethan Alter

Film Journal International

...we need more quality zombie films like this to show Hollywood how it should be done.

January 30, 2006 Full Review

Johnny Butane

Dread Central

If the undead in this movie weren't so physically hideous, they'd be perfect for next year's season of "The Apprentice."

November 4, 2005 Full Review

Christopher Smith

Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Une comédie d'horreur faite de peu de moyens et sans prétention, mais de manière un peu fade vu le scénario grandiloquent que le duo tente de nous faire gober.

October 27, 2005 Full Review

Jean-François Vandeuren

Panorama

...it seems obvious that the Spierigs are destined to go on to bigger and better things.

October 25, 2005 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

A comedic horror sci-fi mixture that manages to be sly, stupid, obvious, and creative -- often all at the same time.

October 9, 2005 Full Review

Scott Weinberg

DVDTalk.com

There's barely a brainwave in Undead.

September 10, 2005 Full Review

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Aliens, zombies, meteors, viruses, flying saucers -- you truly have to appreciate how these guys mixed genres and kept up a level of humor and action ...

August 29, 2005 Full Review

Michael Szymanski

Sci-Fi Weekly

If only the Spierigs had put as much effort into their writing as they did into the special effects, Undead"might not be such a recycled, redundant bore.

August 25, 2005

Paul Doro

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Undead is the sort of movie that people in other horror movies are watching.

August 19, 2005

Sean Means

Salt Lake Tribune

Undead is sort of imaginative and considerably scattershot....succeeded only in making me groggy.

August 5, 2005

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

This Australian zombie import is ... a thoroughly bad movie -- written, acted and shot at the very lowest levels of know-how.

August 2, 2005 Full Review

Kurt Loder

MTV

Undead is struggling to exist in a world that doesn't need it.

July 26, 2005 Full Review

Eric D. Snider

EricDSnider.com

Doesn't even have the idiotic charm one might expect of a 'Plan 10 from Outer Space'...a home movie that ought to have stayed there.

July 24, 2005 Full Review

Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

some sort of retarded uncle to Peter Jackson's early features

July 16, 2005 Full Review

Keith Breese

Filmcritic.com

• 1. Marion: One day you're out on your boat and you get attacked by zombie fish, they munch at your face, like you're the main course at an all you can eat crazy country boy buffet. You walk away, tell the town your story; they think you're mad. Everyone thinks you're mad, you think I'm mad. It happens again, this time it's not zombie fish it's zombie Berkeley. But this time I'm prepared, I'm ready to fight whatever they can throw at me. Still I wasn't strong enough, the strongest ones are always the last ones left; if that's not me, it must be you. If that was the case you wouldn't have battled the undead and lived. You'd be the entree at a smorgasboard of brainfood.
  – Submitted by Dov D (8 months ago)
• 1. Marion: Time is short. So you gotta ask yourself: Are you a fighter, Fish Queen, or are you zombie food?
  – Submitted by Dov D (8 months ago)
• 1. Harrison: I'll fuckin' finish you off faster than a fuckin' birthday cake at a fat chick's fuckin' birthday party!
  – Submitted by Dov D (8 months ago)
• 1. Harrison: When I was a kid, we fuckin' respected our parents, we didn't fuckin' eat 'em!
  – Submitted by Dov D (8 months ago)

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