With the current spread of Ebola (there are already cases turning up here in the United $tate$), it might pay to take notes when you watch a movie like THE DEAD 2. There are some very effective slow motion shots early on in the movie, but no sooner are they done than they're dropped completely. This was a HUGE mistake, because it was one of the few things the movie had going for it that most zombiegeddon movies don't: the feeling that Death is slowly but inevitably moving your way. In THE DEAD, there were a number of shots of slow-moving and even stationary zombies in the background in some shots and they lent an atmosphere of DREAD to the whole thing: in this movie, the dead are clustered together everywhere and stagger, arms at their sides, toward whoever happens to come within their line of sight. They hardly seem dangerous (and we've seen zombies dispatched with such ease so many times in so many movies and TV shows, that they hardly seem dangerous at all, any more) and the fact that the hero has weapons that never seem to run out of ammo only exacerbates the problem. The white contacts are always effective, in my opinion, but what impresses me the most about THE DEAD 2 is the motorcycle that never runs out of gas and the guns that never need ammo.
Review of The Dead 2: India
