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The Forever Dead

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

... because then I could get my money back. *some spoilers below*

This movie is horrible on many different levels. DO NOT BUY.

Sound cuts out so much it's almost impossible to hear whats going on.

The plot is almost non existent. They try and tie things together in the last third of the film, and do a flimsy job at that. Oh! They found a temp cure for the zombie outbreak, and they don't follow up on that. Oh! They can kill zombies with fire, but again, they try one mild follow up that goes nowhere. If I actually found a way to kill these guys I'd be doing my damnedest to use it every chance I got. Instead we get, "Oh we killed with fire. Shrug"

You don't care about ANY of the characters. There's nothing to make you like these over actors. One guy's a thief and get's almost caught by a guy he robed awhile back. So what? There's no reprocutions for his actions. Another woman yells, "I don't trust you!" So what? She doesn't do anything about it except look mad and hang out in the corner. There's a nurse who's job is to run around in the woods and get almost caught by zombies. Who cares? Then again, you can say that about everyone in this film.

The zombies suck. Sometimes they run, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they attack wtih vigor and grapple, sometimes they barely pawed at their victim. NO consistency. Not one zombie can figure out how to break a window. These zombies even had their hands on a victim (the worthless nurse) and then forgot all about her and ran off into the woods just before the bite. Huh. Some effects were not good either- you can see zombies chewing on paper/film of some sort soaked in red "blood". Booooo...

The editing is bad as well: many shots are either too long or too repetitive.

Forever avoid this film. Now I'm going to see how long it takes for "0 of 3 people found this review helpful" as the film makers or their buddies vote me down. Such is the price for telling the truth. : /

THIS HAS TO BE THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. THE ACTING IS HORRIBLE, THE MAKE-UP IS WORSE, AND THE PLOT, WHAT PLOT? I WOULD'VE SENT IT BACK, BUT IT WOULD PROBABLY COST ME MORE TO DO THAT AND I ALREADY WASTED ENOUGH MONEY. THE ONLY THING GOOD ABOUT THE MOVIE IS WHEN IT FINALLY ENDED!! PLEASE DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY. IT IS TRULY NOT WORTH IT.

Man, somebody should review the reviewers of this movie. Mr. "Pericles", you know way too much about a no name director, therefore you are plugging what would have otherwise been a very forgettable exercise in the genre. Also, that scene you mentioned about the zombie experimentation? That was a whopping minute and a half in movie that clocked in at over 90 minutes. And as for Mr. "Bill" from Georgia, I saw both Count Yorga and I Eat Your Flesh and I have no freaking clue how you can draw a line of comparison between the two. Yorga and Flesh were B movies, but not amateur. This barely qualifies as a college thesis. Not to slam Ms. Parker's movie entirely, it does deserve respect for the indie film that it is. It is certainly no crime to make an extremely low budget film. Good ideas and semi-plausible acting go a long way. Where Parker's film falls short is in the story itself. There are scenes of discontinuity that will make you smack your head in disbelief at how a director could let that go by: one minute the rabbit is putting the chomp on someone and beginning the chain of events, then a real estate agent is getting mauled by a zombie that had obviously been shambling around the real estate dig for quite some time; there is a huge, revelatory flashback that does nothing to either move the story along or resolve it; another scientist, who had only one purpose of hunting for the rabbit and finding it, escapes a zombie mauling and falls unconscious for almost a day (???); the principal leads are all left hanging--I mean, one minute someone is spraying aerosol and then they are barricading the door and . . . . cut to that scientist's scene and roll the credits--you are guaranteed to say WTF. Oh, and by the way Mr. Atragon, the choice of music sucked! Who plays happy grunge music to build tension during a zombie mauling? Think that's bad? Listen to what's playing when one of the leads has to bury his cheating wife. Here's a summary breakdown:
Acting--decent
Story--looked good on paper, but poorly executed
Rabbits--HOLY CRAP!!!!!! That rabbit was the absolute best part of the movie! It totally channeled Monty Python and the Caddyshack gopher.
Gore--respectable
Zombies--yet another indie movie that can't make up its mind whether to have the zombies run balls out, or take half a day to shamble somewhere; the redneck zombies at the beginning are annoying at first, but they'll grow on you!
Shooting/lighting--annoying at times, passable at most
Tension/story movement--the first 30 minutes were pretty good,
but then the film bottoms out miserably.

Ok, There are so many things wrong with this movie. First, and most obviously, the acting was so bad, the actors actually looked like they were about to start laughing, when the zombies were chasing them. It looked like a movie that a bunch of random people got together, with no experience, and just made one day.

The zombies and makeup, what a joke. The Zombies couldn't decide if they should run or walk, and the makeup was obviously fake in some shots.

The plot, What plot?! Well they finally piece it together, sort of at the end, but it still isn't clear really what happened, or how it happened.

The point. I am a zombie movie fanatic. This in my opinion is one of the worst examples of a zombie movie that I have ever seen. DO NOT BUY this movie. If you must see it RENT IT, before you buy it.

The misleading decal on the cover wants you to believe this movie could actually be good at something. I am a very forgiving movie watcher. I like most flicks other people hate. This movie is worse than bad. Do not buy this film.

I absolutely love zombie movies and I have seen some real turkeys but this is a SERIOUSLY BAD MOVIE. I couldn't get through it and I've seen Zombie Nation =p. DO NOT BUY THIS!.

Low budget splatter films are always fun and this film is not exception. Great effects on the gore for such a low budget, acting was horrid but who cares no one is really on screen enough alive to matter. The Rabbit is another laughable but awesome effect that made this movie great. Get this one know to watch with a few beers and friends. Cool Zombies.

take your money and go make a homeless person dance for it that would be more worth it. ugggg really poorly done

The plot is weak, the script is pathetic, the acting is dreadful, the Direction is abysmal. If Danny Ackroyd's Leonard Plinth-Garnell (Bad Theatre) reviewed Zombie movies, his advice would be: "Simply awful! Just awful!" The special effects are cheesy (the wire can be seen on action scenes with "Bugs" the zombie rabbit - reminiscent of "Plan Nine from Outer Space's" strings on pie-plate UFOs).

The make-up is a joke. I know Milky-dead eye contact lenses are not cheap, but they are a MUST! Using raw meat and butcher-bought innards is no substitute for makeup FX!

At least one microphone in-the-scene shot. The actors, look at the camera, mug, look like they are about to crack up (who wouldn't when making possibly the worst movie ever made, much less the worse zombie movie of all time!)

I could have bought George Romero's "Diary of The Dead" instead, but I didn't realize it was available yet! Oh the humanity!!! Miss this one if you have a love of good zombie movies.

My best guess is the other reviews that are positive were submitted by people involved in the making of the movie, friends, or relatives. Be warned, this technique is common! As a collector of Zombie Flicks, this is one DVD I wish I had bypassed. Makes me want to make my own...

Bill Blaze

How many of us have wished we took the time to pick up a digital video camera, round up a bunch of friends, stay up hours and days without end editing the footage... and releasing your own vision upon an unsuspecting world?

Well Christine Parker has done just that, and apparently more if you talk to fans of her work.

Now, don't expect George Lucas, or even George Romero special effects. And I don't think Christine is expecting an Oscar or Golden Globe any day now. But that really isn't the point... although I suspect she'd happily take one!

One may initially dismiss "The Forever Dead" as just another low budget home-made flick, but don't believe for a minute that the look and feel is all happenstance. Christine Parker and friends have done an outstanding job putting together a film that plays the part, and delivers.

Just like any other genre, there is a dedicated niche of fans that specifically appreciates the low budget appeal of movies of this type. For some they seem more "real", for others it is perhaps nostalgia for the grindhouse or drive-in of their youth.

But regardless of one's motivations, if you are a fan of down home fun zombie flicks, gore, and more than a little humor(intentional and otherwise), "The Forever Dead" may be for you.

In many ways it reminds me of my youth in the 1970s, staying up late on Saturday night watching "Chiller Theater" in Pittsburgh... struggling to keep awake for the second "B-Movie" feature.

So why only 4 stars? Well, this is Christine's first feature length effort, and another is in the works. So, I bet her product will get even better!

And seriously, 5 stars is "perfection". If this film were "perfect" it might not even be as good! Hrmm, I'm not sure if that circular logic even makes sense *laugh*

But perhaps one day "The Forever Dead" may be listed amongst several that define "Cult Classic".