The Burning Dead

THE BURNING DEAD is a terrible movie... no doubt about it. It has 2,2 and only few reviews to date, so it will never make the Bottom 100, yet I saw it. And you might wonder why. Well, I am a movie lover that despite has mostly rated and occasionally reviewed must-see movies, theater releases, masterpieces and so on and so forth, I occasionally try very bad movies just for seeing if they have an entertainment value. Some, they have it (such as STEEL, DELTA FARCE and a few others to which I gave good scores despite the many negative reviews) but some are just plain bad. And THE BURNING DEAD is one of these.

It begins with Indian chief Night Wolf (Danny Trejo) that tells some kids a legend at night in the woods about some zombies that returned to live after the volcano erupted lava. Just a few minutes later we see a family going on vacation on the site and after a while there is an eruption, and just as the legend said, the zombies returned to life thanks to the lava's powers on the ground. Now it's up to the kids and Night Wolf to kick the zombies' snot, and not without some graphic scenes thrown for shock value.

I wanted to give this film a chance but unfortunately my hopes were wrong. The characters were all one-dimensional and more like cartoon characters than real people. Danny Trejo is the only one who gives a decent performance (just like in most of his other bad movies) but he looks a bit wasted. The special effects are very cheesy, they really look like copied and pasted on the original footage. And some of the graphic scenes were very painful to stomach, but thankfully I forgot most of them.

If you are a bad movie fan, you might actually try this movie for getting a kick out of it, but if you aren't, steer clear from this piece of bile...

The acting, writing, editing, and production of this film is so terrible that it almost seems on purpose. How they want anyone to take this movie seriously is beyond me. A lava eruption that looks like fireworks, lava that looks like a blanket being dragged across the ground, and actors that look like they all failed the class and the casting directors felt sorry for them and gave them a shot, this film has it all. Words cannot describe the absolute crapfest that is "The Burning Dead"

This made me laugh more than anything else.

Bad. Bad. Bad.

Special effects were terrible as was the acting. Danny Trejo, I have no idea why he is in all these bad movies, but even so his ability as an actor is not what you would call award winning!.

Rene Pere, well this was the movie to make me steer away from anything else that he directs. I know of other directors who can create wonderful movies with great dialogues and story lines but this film? What a waste of time and money.

I, myself would be embarrassed to show this work to the public.

Apart from bad acting and bad effects, there were numerous errors within the movie which made you laugh. Did anyone review the movie for inconsistencies?

I suppose fans of B grade movies will enjoy this. Actually, maybe we create a Z Grade category for films which are worse than worse!

I gave it a "1" because I could not select -1000 .

Special effects remind me of my science fair volcanoes I used to make with baking soda. Really really awful and not even as good as most video game cgi effects. The makeup is just as bad. The zombies are pathetic. Makes me appreciate Walking Dead. Like, wow.

Trevo, my man "Machete", is hilarious as the American Indian with obscure wisdom.

Movie makes zero sense and is barely funny. Who is this for? I will tell you. If you are having a beer party, attending a frat party, etc and are extremely buzzed then MAYBE you can watch this. You will still make fun of every scene, but at least you have an excuse for watching this dumbness.

I have seen bad zombie movies. But this is the worst by far.

I wish I could say, I came up with that, but it's the actual German title this movie received. This might be the best thing about the movie, though to be fair, you should know this is low budget. Still we get better movies and better acting and better everything with similar budgets. Unless you're the biggest Danny Trejo fan, you might want to steer clear from this one.

Though even if you are, remember: It's not really his vehicle, he just has a small part in it. The story or the idea rather is pretty out there, which makes it almost likable. Unfortunately too many things go south/wrong, that cannot be helped or overseen.