Dead Squad: Temple of the Undead

The acting is terrible, the story makes no sense and many of the "jokes" are very cringeworthy. Some dialogue makes no sense and the special effects were poorly done. Do not waste your money on this film.

It's not good. It's not funny bad. It's that middle of the road, generic zombie, movie thar you will forger about as you watch it.

Nothing it good. I love bad horror movies, and there was nothing for me here.

Did kind of enjoy the fact that they ADRed 2 or 3 of the teens to hide their british/audtrailan/new Zealand accents and try to pretend like this movie is set in North America??? Seems more likely that it is set in south America judging by the jungle and Mayanesque temple. This movie establishes nothing.

Didn't even know the two scrawny dork boys were brothers until about 30 minutes in.

Lazy production. Do not give them money.

Of course I was compelled to sit down and watch the 2018 movie "Dead Squad: Temple of the Undead" because it is a zombie movie. Anything zombiesque, and I am there.

However, I hadn't even heard about this movie prior to finding it, so I didn't really know what to expect. However, the tendency of such unknown zombie movies tend to be bad. But still, I sat down to watch this movie from writers Dominik Hauser and Nancy Thornhill.

Well, turns out that I might as well just have skipped the movie and found something better to watch. While this was a zombie movie, of sorts, then it was hardly an entertaining movie. And it most definitely wasn't a movie that brought anything new to the zombie genre.

The storyline started out fairly okay and had some interesting enough things to present to the audience. But then as the young protagonists came to the old temple in the forest, everything just fell to the ground and the movie slipped so far down a slippery slope that it never had a snowball's chance in Hell of getting back on track.

The acting in the movie was adequate. Well, you must take into consideration the severe limitations imposed on the acting talents by the lack of a proper script and storyline.

The zombie make-up and special effects were adequate. Sure, this wasn't among the top of the line, but there are far worse special effects seen in zombie movies on the market. So that, at least, counted for something. However, it just wasn't enough to make up for all the other shortcomings that the movie had.

I am rating "Dead Squad: Temple of the Undead" a mere three out of ten stars, because the movie failed to entertain or captivate and hold my attention, despite of it being a zombie movie.

Short and sweet. No synopsis or spoilers.

Dead Squad is the epitome, the height, the very definition of zombie b-flick cheese. Super campy with tons of b-flick blood & gore, and a script straight out of the sewer.

There is NOTHING about Dead Squad that makes it worthy of being called a film. A movie? I guess technically, but it's really more of a flick. That doesn't mean it's without its merits or wasn't worthy of watch, 'cause it totally was!

Some quick notes:

• The sets are pretty darn good! Considering this is low budget schmaltz, they're REALLY good. The majority of the movie takes place in these underground bunkers beneath an old temple in the rainforest, and the entire time I was watching I kept telling myself that it is remeniscent of the old TV show 'Land Of the Lost' - not the show, but the Sleestack lair. You know...those killer reptile humanoids that walked around hissing? Yep...that's what the bunker beneath the temple reminds me of, and it looks really cool.
• The direction and writing was actually quite solid. Any zombie movie that invokes empathy toward a zombie is clever. Crazy & kookie, but clever. The acting was EXACTLY what you would expect from a cheesy b-flick zombie movie with lots of over-the-top, wooden dialog, although the lead (her name escapes me, but she is a young black girl who happens to be some kind of martial arts guru) did a pretty convincing job. Everything else was exactly what you wokld expect from a cheesy zombie flick.

Now, a few notes on parental content:

• PROFANITY: Yeh, there's some, but not a ton. Just a few places here and there.
• INTENSE/SCARY SCENES: Come on...it's a cheesy zombie b-flick.
• NUDITY/SEXUAL SITUATIONS: Now we're getting somewhere. While it's not loaded with hardcore nudity, there are the token b-flick "boob shots" several times, along with some scantily clad women (and zombies) and a few scenes of a sexual nature. Beyond the token few, however, it's not sex overload, or rampant through the film.

-VIOLENCE/GORE: This is the fun part. There is a fairly significant amount of blood and gore during the last 2/3 of the film...maybe closer to the last 1/2. While the fx were actually pretty decent for a super-camp production, there was nothing so disgustingly gross that would make a horror fan cringe, as it's hard to get a queesy stomach when you're laughing. But in all seriousness, people looking for gore should have their boats floated with this, and it looks pretty good.

All in all, this is a fun little romp. It's a little slow in a couple of places, but that doesn't last too long. If you like zombies and you like camp, with a bit of gore and a couple of boobs, this'll be right up your alley.

Judged against "Silence of the Lambs," this would be terrible, but that's not what it's about. It's a campy, over-the-top zombie romp with ultra-gory kill scenes, some bad acting, some surprisingly good comedy acting and directing, a default B movie plot, and a bizarrely "human" society of zombies. I saw one of the people who gave this a rating of 1 turned it off after 30 minutes, and I get that: the stuff that makes this worth watching kicks in halfway through. If you don't like camp or horror-comedy, skip it. If you do, well worth watching.