It’s Halloween season again, the perfect time for some frightful horror movies. 

I viewed and reviewed for another website the DVD release of Undead which came out last Tuesday and will be sitting on the shelves of the local video rental super-markets this weekend.  It’s actually a bit funny to me because people are probably going to rent this film thinking it’s a straight zombie horror flic, perhaps images of the recent remake of Dawn of the Dead still fresh in their minds.  This isn’t one of those Zombie films.  I can’t repost the review I submitted but if they ever decide what to do with it I’ll link to it here, they run a tight operation over there and I should hear back in about two weeks.  The funny thing about the Undead DVD rental by the unsuspecting renter will be that they’re not expecting anything like this.  Undead is an Austraillian movie that brings absolutely nothing original in terms of plot and story to the old zombie genre, unless you count the sort of muddled extraterrestrial ending which was more confusing than anything.  But the whole thing is played with a wink to the camera, there is a tongue in cheek humor element that is sometimes actually funny.  I don’t know if I can recommend this movie, unless you’re the sort who can see humor in some of the gory but imaginative ways people err…zombies die … err re-die.  Which, I do have that sort of sick sense of humor so there were a few chuckles in it for me personally, but not enough to really recommend the movie.  However if you’re a fan of indie film and perhaps an aspiring film maker yourself you’ll find this DVD a boundless source of inspiration.  The Spierig brothers are the directors, producers etc of this film and they did so with only a shoestring budget that was blown after the first few scenes.  Yes, it looks like a campy B movie, but it’s not a blockbuster special effects movie anyway, it just looks good for the kind of budget they had.  And you can certainly tell the making of this film was a labor of love from two young directors that are sure to be seen from again later.