Undead

Hailing from Australia, this is a zombieflick that doesn't beat around the bush, so to speak, The beauty queen in Berkley, a small Australian fishing community, finds herself trapped with town loony Marion in a house surrounded by flesh-eating zombies. These incredibly hungry undead in particular are a result of a strange intergalactic meteor rain that has struck the area. Luckily, Marion happens to be prepared (being engaged in a fistfight with zombie fish several years ago!), and keeps an armament of guns and other nifty stuff in his basement. So, the shooting and chopping is inevitable, and keeps on until an unusually surprising end,
Even though Undead is stuffed with explicit violence and gore, it is most of all a funny flick, In the spirit of Peter Jackson's Braindead, it doesn't take itself too seriously, a
fact that contrary to what you'd expect does not contradict its ambitions, Being a film with the modest budget of 1,4 million USD, the special effects are in many cases remarkable. And there are lots of them - notably people getting zapped by alien spacecrafts, huge spiked walls surrounding entire towns, and numerous zombies being maimed in various ways.
Maybe unlikely, but still true: Undead won the FIPRESCIAward at the Melbourne International Film Festival ''/.../ for daring to be everything that Australian films are not supposed to be: part of a popular, disreputable genre''.
JAKOB BERGLUND

Medverkande
Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins, Lisa Cunningham, Dirk Hunter: Producent
Michael Spierig: Manus
Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig: Foto
Andrew Strahorn: Musik
Cliff Bradley: Talat språk
English