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The Quick and the Undead (Widescreen)

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

 

 

The Quick and the Undead is a spaghetti western with zombies instead of Indians. The movie starts our great and is well-paced but drags towards the end when the zombies maraud the house. The dialog is typical cowboy cheesy and the acting, while somewhat hackneyed and stilted serves its purpose well even though the characters are stereotypes. While this movie is certainly no masterpiece, it does help and improve on the genre, so as zombie movies go, it's quite good. The zombies themselves are definitely Romero descended but aren't quite the shambling corpses they started out as.

*Spoiler Alert*
The only real problem I have with this film is the hero is somehow immune to the Zombie Virus. WTF is up with that?

What can I say about this movie? I think people are being way too hard on it. I love the Z-Grade zombie movie, the DIY microbudget gore fests, so I picked this one up for cheap not expecting much, and I actually found myself enjoying it. The plot is pretty good, and it is pulled off decently, the acting is so-so, not bad, I've definitely seen worse. The zombies look pretty good, and the gore is above average as well. It has all of the elements a watchable zombie movie needs, and while the pacing could be tightened up, and maybe some more zombie action could have been included, I was never really bored by the movie. It also had some pretty good production value as well, this is no camcorder movie. It is not a Romero zombie flick, but is still better than a lot of crap out there, I would call this an above average zombie movie, not great by any means, but still a solid addition to anyone's zombie collection.

This has got to be the worst movie that I have seen in a year. Lame story. Horrible acting and dialogue. Over the top gross out attempts. Stupid, all the way down to the Clint Eastwood wanna-be sneer.

Just plain bad.

Biological warfare leads to the creation of a landscape littered with zombies roaming the land. An unidentified man gives himself an experimental injection with the hope of virus immunity. Bounties are paid to hunters for killing zombies; payments are based upon appendages collected at the kill site. Sounds like a great premise, right? Too bad the movie ruined it.

This movie is from A to Z bad, here are a few examples:
Acting - Not a single cast member utters a convincing line; they're horrible.
Blood - B should have been for budget, because neither ketchup nor koolaid is a convincing alternative for blood.
Cast - They're atrociously untalented, with preposterous accents and absolutely no tangible emotion whatsoever.
Direction - It's all over the map and disorganized.
Filming - Aside from one or two decent scenes, the whole thing gives off the feel of a high level high school AV club production.
Lighting - Dark and amateur at best, there are scenes in which some color scheme is attempted, but it never accomplishes what the director wants. And I think they fell in love with the color blue for some reason.
Makeup - Put on by a blind transvestite.
Protagonist - A cross between a weather-beaten desperado who carries his gun in a guitar case, and a poor man's Hugh Jackman from Van Helsing
Settings - The settings are essentially someone's backyard and one or two low rent properties.
Zombies - Aside from the soundtrack, the zombies were the only redeemable aspect of the movie.

Pass on this one unless you want to become a zombie in the little over an hour this movie will sap from your life.

The Quick and the Undead obviously has an influence from the classic Clint Eastwood western movies of the 1960's. Lead actor Clint Glenn even mimics Eastwood's voice and mannerisms.

This is a four star movie-

I just rented this movie and would like to give a small review to any interested in this zombie film. I'm a huge zombie fan and I must see any movie relating to the undead. I've seen just about all of them and I'll say that this one is mediocre at best. The idea is great and I would love to see someone else make a sequel along the same idea as this movie (but done better of course). It's a great concept but executed poorly by the actors/production. The movie does have a good quality to it, but I have to be honest and say it's the actor/director/producers fault at ruining the vision. This film will show a hint of promise, but then suddenly will leave you utterly dissapointed. I was especially dissapointed by the lack of zombies in the film being replaced by useless dialogue and some totally confusing scenes I think the director may have wrote on the spot. Seeing movies such as this makes me realize just what a talent and a genuis George A. Romero is with what he did with his films. I would not recommend this film, even though it has a some decent gore moments. I feel that this could have been a really good movie, despite what resources the production had, it totally missed the mark :(

This is a great movie! You will enjoy it, there are a lot of great quotable lines. The acting and timing of the actors is incredible. If you like ZOMBIE movies add this one to your collection!

i found entertainment in this movie, could have been better, but much better then city of the dead, dead meat, zombie lake and others i bought recently, i will watch this again, which i can't say for half of the horror movies i bought in the last month, no hot girls in it, but i still liked the movie, it was worth watching, the zombies were scary at times, the storyline was good for a low budget movie, i would recommend this movie as long as you don't expect miracles from it,........

Quick and The Undead was original. The story was a basic western story but with zombies thrown into the mix. I highly enjoyed this film and i'm surprised not more people like it. The dvd comes with a behind the scenes feature that is almost half an hour, which was a surprise. I recommend this to horror fans who like something different.

cool idea terrible movie. I swear the main character wanted to make love to his gun a few times, he wanted to cram it up his cheeks, and I couldn't understand if this movie took place in the old west or present day. I mean why would all the bounty hunters dress like the old west when basically all the zombies wore clothes of today, its stupid.