Review of Dead Air

Lets face it. There are now thousands of genre films, T.V series and shorts all dealing with the same material in 'Dawn Of The Dead', 'Demons', and '28 Days Later'. Sequel after sequel and so on and so forth. This low budgeter, no matter how much political humanitarian themes that is explores still belongs in that category. An always over-the-top Bill Moseley makes the starring role as a popular radio show host who just happens to be running his show during a post 911 terroristic plot to turn people into rabid, crazed maniacs who run around the city infecting others through scratches, bites...etc. He continues to keep his audience informed as he tries to save his family and eventually comes face to face with the men responsible. Suspense and intrigue is the focus rather than blood and gore, and some good performances dominate, but this is otherwise routine stuff with a climatic ending punctuated with some statements on man's evil toward man. Due to the limited budget, most of the action is contained to indoors and unpopulated streets. It would have been better off as a gore-fest and left at that. When are filmmakers going to realize that this genre has been seriously exhausted? Bill Moseley is a tremendous talent who is continuously wasted on low budget genre clones and bit parts.