Dead Country (2008) User Reviews

A new low for Ted. V Mikels and that's saying something.

[CorblimeyGuvnors · 3/10 · 15 March 2015]

Dead Country is about a alien that lands on earth and spreads a deadly virus that turns the town of Romero (get it).

The only thing of note about this film is the genre names associated to this. William Malone, Ted V. Mikels, Lloyd Kaufman and Lisa Wilcox.

There really is no plot to speak of, just a lot of unrelated scenes. So that people can say that they have had some screen time.

One thing that was really irritating was the fact that there were vast swathes of this film with no dialogue. Now I do not mean that this was silent film. In a lot of sections there is background music and incidental sounds coming from the speakers. The characters are actually talking, but not sound can be heard. It was like the film makers did not have time to post sync the dubbing onto the completed film. This is not a problem throughout all of the film, so why just a large portion?

There is some gore, but really not enough to warrant a view.

Not suitable for even the most die hard zombie aficionado

[Blue_Martian · 1/10 · 2 February 2010]

No Budget. No Plot. No gore. No suspense. No Comedy. No point.

This 'movie' is really nothing more than a 75 minute collection of the directors friends appearing on camera for no other reason than to have their name attached to a movie.

I watch many zombie movies, most of which have a budget of a high school party weekend (at best) and while those are bad.. this is worse.

There is no plot at all. The movie basically is a collection of scenes of actors/actresses that simply are thrown into the movie for no purpose other then to have a scene in the movie.

Basically take random scenes from random (extremely)low budget zombie flicks put them together and you have this movie.

If there is anything that can be said to be tolerable with this 'movie' it is that the director tried to keep it interesting with the occasional breast show or otherwise scantily clad woman scene. But it isn't even close to worth it.

If you are contemplating watching this, take a look at my watched movie list - http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=37512911 - and you will see 130+ zombie movies and this one is possibly the very worst of all the ones I've seen.

Save yourself the 75 minutes... seriously.

An Exceedingly Bad Low-Budget Zombie Film

[Uriah43 · 1/10 · 12 March 2021]

This film begins with a renegade space ship attempting to evade an attack by a more powerful space ship close behind. Unable to evade his pursuer any longer, one of the occupants named "Orion" (Andrew Merkelbach) manages to transport himself to a nearby planet just seconds before his ship is completely destroyed. It's then that Orion learns that he has landed in the Outback of Australia and that a virus has been recently unleashed that is causing the residents of a small town near him to turn into flesh-eating zombies. Stranded with no hope of rescue, he remains determined to find other people to assist him in finding a cure before things get completely out of control. The problem is that everyone he meets seems to also be infected. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a really bad film from start to finish consisting of horrible action scenes, bad acting, awful makeup and cartoonish special effects. Admittedly, it does have numerous scenes involving some rather attractive scantily-clad women here and there which helped to brighten the scenery to a certain degree. Unfortunately, none of them were capable to saving this exceedingly bad low-budget picture and I have rated it accordingly.