Night of the Dead: Leben Tod

Night of the Dead is a relatively disgusting D movie about a mad German scientist that creates an elixir of life, but if it isn't administered properly it creates the ever so popular living dead zombies that hunger for human flash. The doctor experiments on his wife and daughter that were killed in a hit and run and also experiments on the unsuspecting visitors to his private clinic as he tries to perfect the serum. Some of the zombies can think, some can't, some are strong, some aren't so there's little continuity in the film. His nephew and nephew's pregnant wife are also staying in the clinic and have little knowledge of what's happening. The wacky staff seem oblivious as well. Some gratuitous nudity and lots of blood and guts make the film difficult to watch in some places. A real D movie with few redeeming qualities.

I've made no secret of disliking The Asylum's films, and saw Night of the Dead out of curiosity and to see if The Asylum were going to make something tolerable. I Am Omega is their best film and that only ranges from mediocre to decent. Night of the Dead is not their worst but I'm afraid I have to counterbalance the positive reviews and say that I didn't like it at all. The lack of originality was a problem, as there is nothing that is surprising at all here, but not the biggest problem. In terms of story it was the pace that was the let down. It unfolds very slowly, nothing wrong with that providing that the story itself is interesting, in Night of the Dead's case it wasn't, coming across as insipid and dull instead. The stupidity of some scenes is overwhelming, I never bought the idea that the characters even in the same buildings could be so oblivious to everything that's going on. The scene with the frog is over far too quickly and none of the attacks are suspenseful or horrifying. Some have said the gore was creative, I personally found it very phony and eventually somewhat excessive also. Technically, Night of the Dead is no better. The special effects are artificial and the editing is choppy. Things get even worse in written quality, with dialogue that is hackneyed and reeks of cheese and characters that are never developed and annoyed the heck out of me, in fact not in a while have I seen characters from any film act so stupid. The acting is also awful, there is a strong impression that nobody wanted to be there and with dialogue and characters as bad as they were I am not surprised. I personally found the leads to be too bland to have one ounce of likability. If there is one redeeming quality, it is a semi-decent last 10 minutes, it is at least decently paced and has some tension. However it does come far too late, especially considering that by the halfway mark I seriously did consider turning the film off, but being fair I stuck with it. Overall, really awful with next to nothing to like about it. 1/10 Bethany Cox

I am not a huge fan of horrors, or more specifically gory ones... the ones that have mostly scenes of folks hacked apart for amusing the potential audience. So you may ask why I watched NIGHT OF THE DEAD: LEBEN TOD. Well, it's related to one of my obsessions: watching the worst movies of all time, and to this day this movie has a pitiful score of 3,0. However I must point out that although the movie was gross and disgusting I managed to finish it... despite I then hated myself for watching what I saw.

In this movie a pregnant woman is forced to not leave the hospital, in which the insane Dr. Schrelick, made a serum able to resurrect the dead. But after things go awry, there are lots of escape scenes, heads chopped off, ghouls' bodies that walk even without limbs and with lots of blood stains all around... however, the movie just seems a pretext for gross out the audience.

The only reason I would recommend this movie? Show it to people that need psychiatric help. If they love it, dump them in the nearest hospital and flee! This is the only reason for which I would recommend this gross, sick and disturbing movie!

Other people have posted reviews and have stated "beware of those who give this movie a low rating because they have some kind of ax to grind or they're jealous, etc." Well I'm here to say I knew nothing about this film when I picked it up at the local rental store, knew nothing of it's director or producer, anything at all. The cover looked interesting! I'm a bad horror film fan...love 'em. Re-Animator being one of the best! This film compares itself to that wonderful piece of shlock, and "Night of the Dead by Eric Forsberg" is so far from being comparable, I don't even know how to put it into words. I joined up to IMDb in order to write this review -- that's how bad this film is. I can not recommend this film at all, the story is weak, the camera work is terrible and looks like a home movie, and the acting?... shameful. Sorry guys but this is one horror film fan that is very disappointed. You did get me to rent it though, with your packaging and enticing text... congrats on your marketing! Maybe you should try that field and leave film-making to the professionals.

I've seen lots of zombie,walking dead,whatever you want to call them, films.Some good ,some bad,most of them bad actually.This one was a bad one.I knew it was gonna be bad when the opening credits were those cheesy looking graphics you can make on a computer.

So a crazy doctor runs a clinic where he does experiments trying to bring the dead back to life.He is working on a serum and is trying different version of it on his victims or patients or whatever you want to call them.The ones who don't turn out right,which is all of them,are kept locked in the basement.So anyway eventually if you keep enough re-animated dead in the basement you'll slip up and things will get out of hand.

Actually even though this movie was plodding and pointless there was lots of blood and gore but the downside is that it wasn't done very well.They sure gave it a go with the blood and guts but I just sort of sat there waiting for this mess to end.

A little bit of walking dead boobies was shown but in addition to being dead they were silicone too,a double yucko.

Skip over this German made crap-fest even though it has a cool looking DVD box.The box drew me in and now I warn you so you won't make the same mistake as I did.