A group of prison guards and inmates band together to fight off an attack by cannibalistic zombies. Sloppily made, atrociously acted, badly written, ineptly directed, poorly shot ripoff of "Night of the Living Dead", made on a bigger budget than that film but with smaller talents. The photography during most of the film is so dark and/or washed out that even the colorized version of "NOTLD" looks better. The editing during the final zombie rampage will give you a headache (cuts last maybe a second or two and often go directly to black before zooming to the next cut, which is incredibly distracting), and although there's a lot of blood, gore and ripping out and eating of various body parts, it's so over the top and badly done it winds up being annoying more than anything else. As previous posters have mentioned, the low budget (e.g., the prison guards' uniforms sport "Security Officer"--rent-a-cop--patches, probably because the producers couldn't get or afford to make real prison guard patches), poor special effects (when the guards fire shotguns or large-caliber automatics it sounds more like small, weak firecrackers going off, and often the sound of gunfire is heard but you can't see any muzzle flashes from the weapons being "fired") and continuity and factual errors (several guards blast away at the zombies with shotguns six or seven times in a row without reloading after each shot) help to sink this almost as much as the stilted direction and bargain-basement acting. Worth a look maybe for the last 15 minutes or so, but it's really nothing you haven't seen done before and done better, and you can see the ending coming a mile away. Overall, a poor effort in pretty much all departments.
Review of Dead Men Walking
