A group of survivors led by some Rambo-wanna-be, walk around an empty city trying to escape from zombies. They run into some military group that ends up wanting to kill the tough guy and have their way with the girls. He ends up wiping out the military and they hide in some mansion, that turns out to be a pharmaceutical lab. We learn how the zombies came about. There's also an imminent attack on the facility so they've got to get out of there in time.
Dead Survivors is nothing but an elaborate home movie about zombies. No one can act. The crew had little resources. And worst of all they had no concept of their own limitations. So they decided to re-record audio. And the folks who did the voice-overs couldn't act either. And the technical people had a hard time syncing the voices with the lip movements. You end up with something that sounds like an Asian king-fu movie of the 70s. There are no ambient or foley sounds. There's just a lot of loud and intrusive music.
The tough guy has the martial arts moves; the director knows more or less where to place the camera; overall the movie has a decent look like many contemporary movies, it's all a shade of brown. But other than that there isn't anything worthwhile here. I thought that only in America any lousy movie can get DVD distribution- apparently it's also possible in Germany.
Dead Survivors is nothing but an elaborate home movie about zombies. No one can act. The crew had little resources. And worst of all they had no concept of their own limitations. So they decided to re-record audio. And the folks who did the voice-overs couldn't act either. And the technical people had a hard time syncing the voices with the lip movements. You end up with something that sounds like an Asian king-fu movie of the 70s. There are no ambient or foley sounds. There's just a lot of loud and intrusive music.
The tough guy has the martial arts moves; the director knows more or less where to place the camera; overall the movie has a decent look like many contemporary movies, it's all a shade of brown. But other than that there isn't anything worthwhile here. I thought that only in America any lousy movie can get DVD distribution- apparently it's also possible in Germany.