Product Details

• Actors: Erin Wilk
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: November 13, 2007
• Run Time: 72 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000VBP378
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,044 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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RISE OF THE DEAD - DVD Movie

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't be fooled!, November 9, 2007

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C. Macgibbon "Chris MacGibbon" (Taunton, Ma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rise of the Dead (DVD)

This is NOT a zombie film by any means.

I purchased it this with the impression I'd be seeing the story of a girl whose town would be invaded by flesh-eating corpses and along with her family battle a desperate wage to survive. Along with said family, conflicts would arise and the battle for humanity becomes stronger than the battle to survive. And so on.

Instead, what I got was a film about a girl who decided to give her baby up for adoption and after he had been bounced from house to house, 3 years later the baby accidentally kills himself (a bit of a spoiler but this is learned early on and is crucial to the plot) and now the soul of the baby - ready for this? - is possessing people to kill his natural born mother for giving him up.

Any zombies in this film? No. Any gore? Nope, not really. Is it a good film? ...Yes, actually it is. BUT it's NOT a zombie film.

The acting in the film was very decent I must say and the storyline intriguing though the prospect of having hordes of flesh-eating ghouls was not only forwarded by the eye catching cover art, but the back of the box as well for describing the film as "A frightening zombie thriller". While the people "possessed" by the infant are zombie-like, they are certainly not zombies and no more than one person at a time becomes a murderous fiend.

Actually had this film had a completely different title, with a different box, I would have enjoyed it immensely. But because it's marketed as a zombie film, it can't be ignored that it is NOT a zombie film but something more along the lines of "Fallen".

Honestly, it's not a bad little film - just not something for zombie fans to seek. Horror fans in general will like it but don't expect a full blown zombie film because again - that's not what you're going to get.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Non-schlock slasher film, November 24, 2007

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Crystalinda "crystal_downer" (OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rise of the Dead (DVD)

My expectations for this movie were pretty low, and I was very pleasantly surprised. I don't particularly like schlock horror movies; but this was filmed in my hometown. Although I liked the Crook Brothers' other horror movie, I enjoyed this one much more. The acting was better, and I thought it was overall more seamless. How many low budget horror movies have (quasi) logical plots and good acting? True, it should be classified as a slasher and not zombie movie; but if you're really sensitive about that, get over yourself; it was bought it in a zombie package. Given the budget and genre, this was an impressive little movie. Unfortunately, the working title,'Tantrum', didn't stick. 'Tantrum' as a title, a better synopsis, and different classification would do better to further the surprising little experience that was this movie.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars DEAD BABIES ARE NOT ZOMBIES, August 1, 2009

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Robert F. Powers "show maniac" (Quincy, Ma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rise of the Dead (DVD)

Everyone in town wants to kill Laura especially the spirit of the child she gave up for adoption. The first couple to adopt are religious freaks who think the baby is cursed-the second couple are just weird. The "mother" is holding the child in her lap and hubby is showing her his new semi-automatic. She yells at him for bringing a gun into the house with a child and he sets the gun down on the coffee table and the two go off to quarrel while the toddler starts sucking on the business end of the gun.

Now the dead baby is out for blood and everyone however loosely connected to the birth mother dies grisly but because of the really low budget, fake looking splatter deaths. A kitchen fork is one of the lethal weapons. The dead baby has the ability to transfer from person to person and when the heroines bf is invaded by the spirit she knocks the bf unconscious, has sex with him, and now she finds herself pregnant. Baby is now back in the womb he loves best.

For a cheapie budget costing less than a box of Pampers, the movie is not that bad but the title is mis-leading and I do feel queesy about the scene showing the toddler sucking on the gun-but the movie is worth a watch, as long as you know beforehand, the movie is not about zombies, and is about a dead baby with a nasty temper.