2 reviews
Stumbling upon the 2021 horror movie "Plague of the Dead" by random chance here in 2025 and seeing it being a zombie movie that I had neither seen nor ever heard about, and given my love of all things zombie, of course I needed no persuasion to sit down and watch it. Granted, I haven't watched the 2018 movie "Virus of the Dead", to which this 2021 movie apparently is a sequel. So I didn't know what I was getting myself into.
I managed to endure a mind-boggling 25 minutes of absolute boredom before tossing the towel in the ring. This was not a zombie movie. It was a pathetic display of people filming themselves, or vlogging for you hipsters out there, set against an apparent zombie outbreak. But take heed, this is not a horror movie, nor is it a zombie movie. So writer and director Tony Newton failed to entertained me thoroughly with this flaming piece of garbage that was "Plague of the Dead".
Of course I wasn't familiar with a single performer on the cast list. Not that I cared one bit about the characters that they portrayed, because the movie had absolutely no storyline or contents to it.
Visually then you're not in for anything except shoddy selfies with added static effects and such. Nothing grand here.
The movie's cover was actually the best thing about the entire ordeal.
Do yourself a favor and stay well clear of the atrocity that is "Plague of the Dead". It has nothing to do with being a horror movie, nor a zombie movie. It was just a laughable and physically painful thing to look at.
My rating of writer and director Tony Newton's "Plague of the Dead" lands on a generous one out of ten stars.
I managed to endure a mind-boggling 25 minutes of absolute boredom before tossing the towel in the ring. This was not a zombie movie. It was a pathetic display of people filming themselves, or vlogging for you hipsters out there, set against an apparent zombie outbreak. But take heed, this is not a horror movie, nor is it a zombie movie. So writer and director Tony Newton failed to entertained me thoroughly with this flaming piece of garbage that was "Plague of the Dead".
Of course I wasn't familiar with a single performer on the cast list. Not that I cared one bit about the characters that they portrayed, because the movie had absolutely no storyline or contents to it.
Visually then you're not in for anything except shoddy selfies with added static effects and such. Nothing grand here.
The movie's cover was actually the best thing about the entire ordeal.
Do yourself a favor and stay well clear of the atrocity that is "Plague of the Dead". It has nothing to do with being a horror movie, nor a zombie movie. It was just a laughable and physically painful thing to look at.
My rating of writer and director Tony Newton's "Plague of the Dead" lands on a generous one out of ten stars.
- paul_m_haakonsen
- Apr 4, 2025
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Anyone who lived through the covid pandemic and loves zombies may get a kick out of this movie. It was pretty slow going but I did not mind that aspect. Not a lot of zombies are shown and most left up to the viewers imagination. The guy going crazy in his garage singing kinda cracked me up. The outside footage is fun to watch given that the actual lack of humans was on account of a real quarantine going on at the time. I liked the vlog concept to see different points of views and how they are dealing with a quarantine/zombie outbreak. It. To recap: Acting is meh, movie is fun if you watch any and all zombie content.
- jenz-11215
- Oct 18, 2023
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