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Night of the Dead: Leben Tod
- Genre: Zombie
- Release Year: 2006
- Director: Eric Forsberg
- Writer: Eric Forsberg
- Running Time: 90min
- Rating: NR (Brief Nudity, Flesh Eating
- Reviewed by: harbinger on Thu 4 Sep 08
Official Blurb:
The widowed Dr. Gabriel Schreklich (Louis Graham) successfully develops a serum to raise the dead, but the patients return to life with an insatiable hunger for human organs. Trapped in the hospital, the doctor's nephew (Gabriel Womack) and his pregnant wife (Joey Jalalian) desperately try to escape the flesh-eating monsters. Horror fans who relish seeing tons of blood and guts won't be disappointed with this film's high level of gore.
Review:
Quick Summary: Mix 1 part low-budget over the top effects, 1 part Re-Animator, 1 part camcorder. Shake Well. Spill on Floor. Let fester.
This film is basically a low-budget gore fest.
Dr. Gabriel Schreklich's family was killed in a car accident many years ago. Now he lives in a converted hospital with his nephew, Peter Sturben, the nephew's pregnant wife Anais, and a small group of staff and assistants.
The Doctor is trying to invent a serum to reanimate the dead, and it works.. it has worked for years.. . Just he's been spending all these years trying to perfect the part where they return to normal, instead of flesh eating ghouls. It's a process that is taking alot of trial and error; and that means several permanent residents in locked off in various unused sections of the hospital.
When some unexpected guests show up thinking that this hospital is a -real- hospital.. you know.. the kind where they save the living.. the inevitable mistakes get made and the locked up zombie menace become free to roam... it's up to Peter to escape with his wife and put an end to this madness!
These Zombies aren't really zombies.. well.. they are.. that whole 'living dead' thing, but most of these talk, walk, think. Strangely enough, it looks like Dr. Schreklich's earlier serums worked better, and many of the experiments in the middle period didn't turn out as well.
The majority of us would think of them more as a flesh-eating ghouls then something like the Zombies we're reminded of from years of Romero flicks, and frankly that's fine because the title doesn't imply they are zombies. Why review this film then? Easy.. it's still considered a 'zombie' movie, and the reader might stumble across it one day and wonder what it's all about.
Overall, this is a fairly mediocre film. The best part is probably the ending.. not just because the film is finally over, but there was actually a fairly good plot twist at the end. The viewer 'knows something was up', however Forsberg actually manages to not give it away or blatantly beat you over the head with it before the actors know it.
The gore effects are par for a B-grade gore flick, meaning that they aren't what you'd expect ILM to pull off and conversely they don't look super-cheesy. There are a few parts where there are some painfully low budget puppeteering and SFX you'd expect from an 80s music video, but thankfully the film doesn't dwell on those for too long.
Aside from the above mentioned ending plot twist, the story of the film is fairly generic and unexciting. There's a few spots of nudity, but not lingering to the point of being considered 'graphic'.
If you can remember to keep sensibilities at bay while watching, you might enjoy this flick... might.
What I liked:
- The idea that this story is based on; basically a super-charged 'Re-animator'
What I didn't like:
- The film itself just seemed lacking.
Final Scoring:
2.0 Zombie Heads of a possible
5 Zombie Heads
Personal Recommendation: Skip it unless you really like low budget gore films that need help in the story department.
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