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A post-apocalyptic Western that follows a group of gunslingers as they look to rid a small town of a zombie plague.A post-apocalyptic Western that follows a group of gunslingers as they look to rid a small town of a zombie plague.A post-apocalyptic Western that follows a group of gunslingers as they look to rid a small town of a zombie plague.
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It's not state of the art, or Oscar-winning material, but........ The movie is quite entertaining... it's everything that we should expect from the same studios that brought us Z-Nation. If you like mindless action, with lots of blood and gore, and you are just looking for something to entertain you for some time, you can't go wrong with Dead 7.
OK, the acting is not good (but I've seen worst), the plot is weird, and it's a TV-movie, without top-notch FX... but still, if you're not expecting Zombieland, Dead Rising, Night of the Living Dead or Dawn of the Dead, you will have a very nice time.
Try it out.
OK, the acting is not good (but I've seen worst), the plot is weird, and it's a TV-movie, without top-notch FX... but still, if you're not expecting Zombieland, Dead Rising, Night of the Living Dead or Dawn of the Dead, you will have a very nice time.
Try it out.
I had to watch because I just love some 90s boy bands but this movie was just bad? Was there a real plot to this no...the acting was hilariously bad, accents went in and out mid sentence and where was Aaron carter?? Come on nick you should have casted your brother to get all the feels. The zombie makeup was really really terrible as well. And the extra girls that you casted... Who wears pearls and has time to straighten there hair in a post apocalyptic world? But I totally appreciated all the 90s sunglasses but I'm pretty sure they used an Instagram filter for the whole movie! I will love you guys for life but this was just so bad we had to watch show me what you got after just to get back our backstreet boys love!!! Sorry guys stick to what your good at singing and dancing.
OK guys....I really wanted to like this, cause I like zombie movies and boy bands were my jam (and still occasionally are-especially backstreet boys and even spoke to AJ on the phone once (thanks to my sister and her ex husband-her ex went to school with AJ). I got most of the way through before turning it off. I have never written a movie review on IMDb before. I get the comedy aspect, for it to not be taken seriously, some of the acting was decent, but some other times....I felt like a bad porno from the 70s-80s was about to break out. There was no story line really, it was a mishmosh of different story lines and one of the scenes with AJ, why did he have to act like bad imitation Captain Jack Sparrow? That kinda ruined it for me in the beginning. And the lighting is all off balance and too washed out a lot. I'll probably watch it again and give it another shot when I don't have anything else to watch.
Btw, I used to love the SyFy channel, that channel used to be awesome and started going downhill, so I hoped this movie would be somewhat decent and bring the channel back to a little bit of it's former glory.
But seriously guys, please stick with singing, if you guys are going to act again, please don't act like one of those awful movies on the Max Movie Channels after 11-12. I can't take it and makes me either want to laugh or vomit. I know Joey is good-I love him Greek Wedding 1 and 2. Howie and Nick were semi decent.
I would never want to put anyone down and if you want to continue making movies, we'll be there for you to help cheer you on for your dreams.
Btw, I used to love the SyFy channel, that channel used to be awesome and started going downhill, so I hoped this movie would be somewhat decent and bring the channel back to a little bit of it's former glory.
But seriously guys, please stick with singing, if you guys are going to act again, please don't act like one of those awful movies on the Max Movie Channels after 11-12. I can't take it and makes me either want to laugh or vomit. I know Joey is good-I love him Greek Wedding 1 and 2. Howie and Nick were semi decent.
I would never want to put anyone down and if you want to continue making movies, we'll be there for you to help cheer you on for your dreams.
If you think that a bunch of 1990's boy-band singers getting together to make a zombie/western movie in 2016 was a bad idea, you'd be right. It looks and sounds exactly like what you'd imagine; just awful.
Looking at the disparity in the votes between male and female on this one makes me think a large number of women, who were about 14 in 1995, checked in to scope out their old crushes, and they still have a thing for them (it would explain all the "10" votes for this). Nothing wrong with old infatuations, but I think their fond memories of these guys had them overlooking some very big flaws in Dead 7.
A good screenplay is the basis for any good film, and good actors are needed to get those words effectively on screen. This movie has neither of those things. In fact, this is just tough to watch all the way through. There is nothing here to draw your interest. No sympathetic characters, no witty banter, not even any fancy CGI. I'm not a big fan of desaturated color in films either, and Dead 7 really overdoes it. If you want to take that much color out of a film, just make a black and white movie.
The point is, unless you were a huge fan of the Backstreet Boys, 'NSync, O-Town or 98 Degrees, you're just wasting your time watching this.
Looking at the disparity in the votes between male and female on this one makes me think a large number of women, who were about 14 in 1995, checked in to scope out their old crushes, and they still have a thing for them (it would explain all the "10" votes for this). Nothing wrong with old infatuations, but I think their fond memories of these guys had them overlooking some very big flaws in Dead 7.
A good screenplay is the basis for any good film, and good actors are needed to get those words effectively on screen. This movie has neither of those things. In fact, this is just tough to watch all the way through. There is nothing here to draw your interest. No sympathetic characters, no witty banter, not even any fancy CGI. I'm not a big fan of desaturated color in films either, and Dead 7 really overdoes it. If you want to take that much color out of a film, just make a black and white movie.
The point is, unless you were a huge fan of the Backstreet Boys, 'NSync, O-Town or 98 Degrees, you're just wasting your time watching this.
disclaimer: gave up about 15 minutes in
What I watched of this movie was just bad movie-making.
Maybe it's supposed to be a caricature of spaghetti westerns and/or zombie movies.
The director apparently never heard of "show, don't tell" as a storytelling technique. The opening sequence is just awful - over acted, over-explained, over-graded.
The next 2 sequences look like they were shot on a handycam and not graded at all ... there's no cinematic feel to any of the shots
I gave up at that point. Maybe if I'd waited a few more minuted I'd have found someone in the story to become invested in... but I wasn't prepared to waste anymore time on it...
Your Mileage May Vary
What I watched of this movie was just bad movie-making.
Maybe it's supposed to be a caricature of spaghetti westerns and/or zombie movies.
The director apparently never heard of "show, don't tell" as a storytelling technique. The opening sequence is just awful - over acted, over-explained, over-graded.
The next 2 sequences look like they were shot on a handycam and not graded at all ... there's no cinematic feel to any of the shots
I gave up at that point. Maybe if I'd waited a few more minuted I'd have found someone in the story to become invested in... but I wasn't prepared to waste anymore time on it...
Your Mileage May Vary
Did you know
- TriviaThe film features many actors who were popular musical acts in the 1990s. A.J. McLean, Howie Dorough, and Nick Carter are members of the Backstreet Boys. Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick are members of *NSYNC. Jeff Timmons is a member of 98 Degrees. Erik-Michael Estrada, Dan Miller, and Jacob Underwood are members of O-Town. Lead singers of Everclear, Art Alexakis, and Crazy Town, Shifty Shellshock, are also in this movie. Tommy McCarthy from boy band No Authority plays the sheriff in the brothel. Gerardo Mejia, who had the hit song "Rico Suave" in 1990, plays Lloyd the Postman. Jon Secada, who plays Sheriff Cooper, had the hit "Just Another Day" in 1992.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Asylum: case studies (2021)
- SoundtracksDown By the River
Written by Jacob Underwood, Christopher Oppold, and Mark Suhonen
Performed by Jacob Underwood
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- 1h 29m(89 min)
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- 1.78 : 1
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