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• Actors: VARIOUS
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: SEMINAL FILMS
• DVD Release Date: March 9, 2010
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0030GBT1U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,266 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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DEAD LIFE:REDEUX - DVD Movie

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4.0 out of 5 stars A grindhouse homage, with remastered audio and video, March 17, 2011

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This review is from: Dead Life: Redeux (DVD)

Dead Life Redeux is a remastered version of the 2004 release, Dead Life, by director William V. Schotten.

Dead Life has gotten very mixed reviews, which seem to basically depend on how you watch the movie. If you're looking for a modern horror flick, this isn't it. It's an indie homage to 1970s grindhouse horror, and a good one. Shot in Super 8, the director really took pains to capture the look and feel of 1970s exploitation cinema, and that's how it's meant to be watched, tongue-in-cheek, with a large pinch of nostalgia.

There is a spine of a plot, a group of friends fighting the zombies that have taken over their town. But mostly, Dead Life is a loose, satisfying montage of surreal imagery, twitching zombies, and blood and gore, all with a authentic 70s punk rock soundtrack. Shot in super 8mm, Dead Life has the look and feel of the time. The movie even incorporates another grindhouse favorite--kung-fu.

Max and his friends live in a small midwestern American town, where beer drinking and working on beater cars are the two main source of entertainment. A drifter is seen in the town, biting innocent bystanders, who suffer nosebleeds and vomit blood, then die to be resurrected as zombies. When one of the infected dies near the town's reservoir, the disease spreads like wildfire. Soon, Max and his friends are among a handful of survivors, on the road and looking for a sparsely populated place that they can hole up in until the infection dies out. But as their numbers dwindle, the outlook becomes bleak.

All of the crucial zombie movie elements are there--limping, slow moving zombies whose strength is in their numbers, the girlfriend eaten by zombies, the friend bitten and the dilemma of what to do with him. The movie could almost have been made in the 1970s. True, some of the acting and special effects are questionable, but that only makes the film seem more like a true grindhouse movie. If you're looking to relive the exploitation cinema craze, you couldn't do much better than Dead Life.