1hr 45mins // directed by:The Ford Brothers // featuring:Prince David Osei, Rob Freeman
When the last evacuation flight out of war-torn Africa crashes off the coast, American Air Force Engineer Lieutenant Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) emerges as the sole survivor in a land where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living.
On the run in a hostile and inhospitable parched landscape, where sudden death lurks around every sun-burnished corner, Murphy has to use his wits and ingenuity if he is to get home alive to his family. When Murphy’s path clashes with that of Sergeant Daniel Dembele (Prince David Osei), whose village has been torn apart by the reanimated dead, they join forces. The two desperate men from two very different cultures fight side by side to survive across the incredible vistas of Africa as the world succumbs to the deadliest of viruses.
In the first zombie road movie set against the spectacular vistas of Africa, the Dark Continent becomes a dead zone. A stunningly shot horror fantasy announcing the arrival of the Ford Brothers on the global genre scene, The Dead is as much an emotional journey through terror terrain as it is a physically demanding and beautiful-looking one. Shot in life-threatening, never-before-seen locations in Burkina Faso, French-speaking West Africa, and Ghana, including the Sahara Desert, on 35mm film by the award-winning Ford Brothers, The Dead is one of the most unique zombie movies of all time.
Co-director Howard Ford will be in person at the theatre to introduce and answer questions about this chilling soon-to-be zombie classic.
I saw some Australian bullshit version of Diary of the Dead that I was lead to believe was "The Dead" and I got really pissed off that I had sat through the whole thing thinking this stinker was a movie that all my friends had recommended.
I liked it, but for all that "ZOMG SO ORIGINAL!!!" hype it was pretty bogged down with zombie movie cliches ... and some of the sappy shit had the whole audience laughing out loud. 6/10
