The Dead Undead

A group of immunized hippie vampires fight off animalistic zombie-vampire hybrids with the help of a group of human camping teens.

If there were an award for worst use of a repetitive metal riff, this movie would clean up, alas there is not. What we get is grade school amateurish action sequences with little care for such trivial details as plot, or acting ability. A partly neat idea just squandered. Awful in nearly every way (and the nearly qualifier is merely feeling sorry for everyone involved in that sad little fiasco. The late legendary Forrest J. Ackerman, even in a cameo, deserves way better than this.

My Grade: F

The Dead Undead. What the hell does that mean? Dead is no longer living, and undead means technically dead but reanimated. So does that mean that 'the dead undead' are the undead who have died again? If so, doesn't that mean that they are just dead?

Beats me! As it happens, the dumb title isn't the worst thing about this film. It all starts out promisingly enough with a group of young vacationers (three hot babes, two guys) arriving at a strangely deserted motel, the girls immediately opting to get into their bikinis and go swimming, but goes rapidly downhill when the group is attacked by zombies with vampire like traits. It turns out that these are ZVs—zombie vampires—vampires that have turned into zombies after feeding on bovine blood infected with mad cow disease.

Hot on the heels of these horror hybrids are a highly trained and well-armed team of 'good' vampires (led by Luke Goss) who hope to deal with the problem before it spirals out of control. Cue lots of repetitive action, plenty of random gunfire, much macho posturing, crap CGI blood, stunt-men leaping from hidden trampolines onto the roofs of cars, dreadful flashbacks to pad out the running time (with two of the most unconvincing Vikings imaginable), truly awful acting, a pointless cameo from Forrest J. Ackerman, and Vernon Wells (of Mad Max 2 fame) passing time between signing autographs at movie conventions.

3.5 out of 10, generously rounded up 4 to IMDb.

I thought this movie was a great spin on the vampire genre. It had something unique in it.

Excellent amateur movie. Low budget, but for having only a million to work with, very good. Well done and put together for what they had (most of that probably went towards film) and very enjoyable, it brought me in. I had as much watching it as Dead & Breakfast, Dance Night With The Dead and others of the genre. Don't go in expecting too much and you'll really get a lot out of it At just about any amateur movie fest this would be a winner, they really actually develop the characters and their backgrounds too First twenty minutes I didn't really enjoy that much but after that it got really good Worth the watch in my opinion if your looking for cool characters and good fight scenes, very nice movie

The movie had a lot of action and all but there wasn't a big storyline I thought the movie would have a strong plot but yeah but anyway it was kinda in the middle.