Dug Up

Not a masterpiece. But it has a few funny bits. The best was early on when the sheriff is at the location of a deceased man, and it's a sight gag that you might miss if you look away. There are a few other funny bits and the movie knows what it is and does not take itself seriously. Decent zombies, goofy, and for what it is, in its class, it's a solid 8. Well, what else can I say about it? The effects budget was certainly decent. The characters are stereotypes, but so what? The whole idea of the main male character visiting his sister at work was disturbingly hysterical to me and I'm really out of things to say. If you like bad movies, you'll like it a lot. Even though its on the cusp of just being good dumb fun.

Seriously? It says it's a zombie movie but it's the furthest thing from that. This is basically the early start of the, all southerners are white supremacists/hicks. The accents are just so far over the top that you want to rent a trailer just to say you've got good coverage on the white stereotype that seems to be common these days. The acting is unbearable, the girls are just, yuck. And the guys are basically what you've seen in movies like Deliverance. I mean what's the point? Nobody believes this is real American culture. There isn't any town in the USA that behaves this way. But of course a zombie movie wouldn't be complete without a bunch of Neo-Nazis right? I mean seriously?

The Walking Dead it is not.

This is a poorly funded B-Movie to be sure, but one that's so bad - it's good. Well, above average anyway...

First and foremost, there are hot women everywhere and it's worth watching just for that alone. Furthermore, each character is funny and the actors all do a good job with their lines. They act stupid on purpose and are quite amusing in doing so. Some of their lines, by the way, are absolutely hilarious. There's also the zombies, of course, and with the budget, they are fake as hell, however; instead of trying to pass them off as legitimate, this movie actually makes that fact comical. On top of that, there are some added bonuses like the firearms and a sudden appearance of a mint Dodge Super Bee.

Have you ever watched a movie that was so stupid that you felt stupider after watching it? This is such a movie.

I rather enjoy zombie comedies, so I was hopeful that "Dug Up" might be a nice indie that had flown under the radar. But the reviews that warn you to ignore the10s should be respected. Because "Zombiand," it is not.

Being low budget, I can excuse the really bad makeup and special effects. I can excuse a certain amount of sloppy storytelling and character development. I can even excuse laughable plot holes and lazy, dumb wrap ups. But what I can't excuse is filming a movie in Vermont while pretending to be the most insulting stereotypical Southern rednecks known to man.

The cast of "Dug Up" apparently rifled through all the old "Dukes of Hazzard" wardrobe, while perfecting their unknown Southern regional accents by everyone just kind of agreeing that all Southerners talk that way while punctuating the script with plenty of uses of the term "thingamajiggy" thrown in while slapping their hips and hyucking. Like all us Southerners do. Reading the other reviews, apparently I wasn't the only one appalled and insulted.

You know, had they NOT chosen to make anyone south of Mason-Dixon the butt of their joke and just played it straight, it probably would have been a much better film. It wouldn't have been near as stupid and the jokes may have landed better. I don't know...how do Vermonters talk? But honestly the ONLY reason I didn't shut this crap show off after 10 minutes was because I wanted to give it a chance, and to fairly review it.

DUG UP is your usual indie zombie comedy which feels a little better than some of the braindead efforts that this genre conjures up. The reason for that is that the script isn't totally mindless and the main three actors do seem invested in their roles. The story takes a while to get going and the first half is too obsessed with showing skin to get on with the plotting, but the low rent zombie nonsense in the second half is a bit better. There's the requisite cheap gore effects and some mannered acting bringing to life characters that are more caricature than real person. By the standards of mainstream cinema it's not very good, but by the standards of an indie it's not so bad.