Granny of the Dead

I was expecting utter trash but was reasonably entertained throughout. By no means is this a good movie but if you are running low on zombie movies to watch and enjoy gambling your time on low budget fair it really isn't all that bad.

Effects are adequate, and the main character and SOME of the supporting cast do a passable job.

They did fail to adhere to some of the standard zombie ABC's though which was disappointing.

1. don't give away the origin

2. have 1 good zombie gutfest of someone being eaten alive

In general as long as you got those you've got a solid foundation.

This film is garbage.

The entire thing looks like it was shot on someone's mobile phone. The cast are universally bad and have impenetrable Welsh accents. I guarantee that most outside of the UK will find it impossible to understand what the characters are saying ( not that this is a loss. The script is dire and the acting abysmal).

No-one has a character ,or any charisma, is likable or attractive, not even the one whose outfit suggests that she is supposed to be the "hot" girl ( Sabrina Dickens).

The film isn't scary, funny or interesting. If you want find something to cure insomnia then Granny of The Dead might be it.

There is some amusement to be had from laughing at the incompetence of all involved but this will wear off long before the film is over.

I'm a huge zombie movie fan but my interest in the sub-genre is waning. The reason? Too many zombie films being released and far too many of them are dreadful. This welsh effort certainly comes under that category and is a failure on every front.

Unfunny comedy attempts, practically no storyline at all and so poorly made it could be confused for a student film.

The idea of the "Granny" zombies is short lived and quickly descends into yet another low budget zombie film with no identity and nothing to set it apart from the rest.

The Good:

Neat Jurassic Park reference

The Bad:

Those accents!

Terrible camera work

The premise isn't followed through with

Things I learnt from this movie:

I should avoid welsh cinema for a while

Badly acted, badly shot, cheap pointless drivel. I can find little to praise in this sorry effort.

I am suspicious about the positive 10 out of 10 reviews.

Right, well I am a huge fan of anything even remotely zombie in nature. And with a title such as "Granny of the Dead", I was intrigued, because it had the potential for being a good zombie comedy; at least it had the potential for it.

The storyline in "Granny of the Dead" was easy to follow, and doesn't really require much explaining. The elderly are dying and returning as animated corpses with a hunger for the living. A group of Young people are trying to live through the ordeal and remain alive and sane. Yeah, that was essentially it, simplistic for sure.

It felt like the movie was comprised of various scenes shot independently of one another and then put together in the editing room in order to make something reminiscent of a movie. It just didn't have a particularly coherent feel to it and it felt like continuity was a thing of the past.

Zombie movies should not, and I repeat, not have running and agile zombies. Having running zombies just adds a disruptive element to the atmosphere, and when dead, a body should not have the coordination and cognitive ability to sustain complex movement such as running.

As for the zombies in "Granny of the Dead", well I will say that there was a great number of zombies actually here, more than I had anticipated, so that was great. And the zombie make-up and special effects were actually quite nice. It is always a plus when a low budget zombie movie go beyond the usual error of just adding gray make-up and cheap theatrical blood to the face, but forgetting about the neck, hands and all other exposed areas of flesh. So thumbs up for the special effects team in this movie.

Now, I will say that the character gallery in the movie was broad. But I can't really claim to say that it was characters that you particularly took a liking to, or actually even bonded with on any level. The characters were just too mundane, generic and rather indistinct from one another. And it didn't really help that the dialogue was strained and forced; that didn't do much to make the character any more interesting.

When the zombie faces started to change from being dead elderly faces to what I assume was demonic faces, then I was about ready and done for. I was ready to call it quits and give up on the movie. But I decided to stick with it, since it was a zombie movie after all. But color me unimpressed.

It was rather difficult to get fully immersed into this movie, because it just felt forced and unnatural - well as unnatural as it gets with zombies.

"Granny of the Dead" was nowhere near as interesting or entertaining as I had hoped. And it turned out to be somewhat of a struggle to actually stick with the movie and not give into the desire of turning it off prematurely to find something more worthwhile to watch.