Anger of the Dead (2015) User Reviews

Just another run-of-the-mill zombie movie...

[paul_haakonsen · 3/10 · 29 December 2015]

Anything that even remotely reeks of zombie, pardon the pun, catches my interest. However, unfortunately, the zombie genre is flooded with countless less than mediocre or low budget attempts. "Age of the Dead" (aka "Anger of the Dead") was no exception.

This movie is unfathomably slow paced and has very little of any interest to offer a genre drowning in sub par additions. Truth be told, it was a struggle to stick with "Age of the Dead" to the end.

The storyline is not particularly appealing and doesn't really throw anything to lure in the audience.

"Age of the Dead" committed the two atrocities in the genre; fast, agile and running zombies, and the Classic error of doing zombie make-up on the face but forgetting about the rest of the body. And when I first saw a female zombie with fairly impressive zombie make-up on the face, but with smooth, non-decayed skin on the arms and shoulders I was just ready to give up on the movie.

The characters in the movie were as about as detailed as a blank sheet of paper. There was no background story, no character development or anything else of any noteworthy thing to make the characters feel real.

"Age of the Dead" failed to impress or leave a lasting impression in any way that hasn't already been failed in other similar low budget movies, and it is not really a movie that you just got to own in your zombie movie collection. There are so many better zombie movies available.

It was Dramatic and Suspenseful

[Carrigon · 4/10 · 16 July 2015]

But was it good? Well, the beginning was good. SPOILERS: The movie starts out with Alice and her daughter at home in their apartment when.......a zombie comes a knockin on the door. This we saw in the trailer.

Well, Alice survives and meets another survivor named Stephen. They hook up and have a few friends with them, so it's your basic zombie survival movie. Not everyone makes it. And there's a lot of drama in between. The movie jumps four months ahead to where Alice is pregnant. I actually found that to be the scariest part of the movie because it would be terrifying to be pregnant in a zombie apocalypse with fast moving zombies all over. And I was scared to watch the last twenty minutes because I didn't know what would happen to her. Turns out, how it ended is not what I was expecting at all.

There is a dual story here with a woman being experimented on and abused by some soldier guys. I wasn't really happy with that part of the movie, too much violence against women. But her story eventually converges with Alice's story.

This kind of movie you will either like it or hate it. I found it suspenseful enough to keep me watching till the end because I didn't know what would happen to Alice and Stephen.

It's low budget and there aren't enough main characters. It really needed a few more. And there were times I felt the movie just came to a screeching halt with too much talking and no action, but it has its moments.

I have seen a lot worse, I've also seen a lot better. For a low budget, it's average.

Putrid

[greyfith · 2/10 · 22 April 2020]

As soon as I saw Uwe Boll's name attached in the opening credits as a producer, I knew I was in for another garbage fest. I wasn't wrong. Horrible writing. Horrible dialogue. Horrible acting. Horrible scoring and choices for where score should even GO.

Don't waste your time.

A for Effort

[davannacarter · 4 August 2015]

IMDb says this film was released on March 15, 2015. Today is August 4, 2015 and it already has a 2.7 rating. First, let me point out this does not deserve a 2.7 rating. There are way worse movies out there with higher ratings. Way worse. How is it possible that there are worse movies with higher ratings? Unlike other indie film hacks, the filmmakers didn't flood the review sections with bogus 10-star reviews and put up hundreds of bogus 10-star ratings through phony shill accounts. Therefore, I am going to give these filmmakers respect for being honest and not dishonestly have a bunch of bogus ratings and reviews. However, there are positives and negatives about this flick. Negatives: --editing is too choppy sometimes, which make the transitions lack smoothness; --the two intertwining stories should have been fleshed out more. Unfortunately, they were underdeveloped. As a result, the characters didn't have as much life as they could have had. And the story felt disjointed. --too many clichés in this movie had me saying, "I could see that part coming a mile away." --ending wasn't resolved. I don't mind unresolved endings. But the characters need to be truly engaging for me to go with an unresolved ending. It looks like there will be a sequel. --ridiculous human behavior. Seen this in hundreds of zombie movies, books, and comic books. And this one was no exception: characters who do stupid things that make you say, "Do you want to get killed by a zombie? Why would you do something so stupid?" Like in many zombie stories, characters in this movie will be out in the open shouting, talking loudly, making loud noises, or walk or sit around without being alert in case a zombie shows up. Why are characters in this movie shouting, "Hello, is anybody here?" when they walk inside a building that looks deserted by they also know could have zombies inside? A character says he just drove past a horde of a hundred zombies. So what does he decide to do? 10 minutes later he decides to pitch a tent and sleep outside in the woods. What? Why isn't he sleeping in his car with his gun at the ready? And why do characters in this movie sit around in parked cars out in the open with all the windows all the way down? When a character gets attacked due to such stupidity I can't muster the strength to feel bad for them at all. Instead, I can only say, "With all the stupid behavior they display out in the open, I'm surprised they are still alive."

The positives: 1. No shaky-cam or swaying-cam. Shaky-cam is where it's like the cameraman is having seizures. Swaying-cam is where it's not shaking but it's swaying in a way that it seems like the cameraman is too tipsy to hold the camera steady. In both cases, they jar me out of the movie and make the directors seem like amateurs. 2. Not overdoing the loud "BOOM!" jump scare. 3. The actors were good. For many actors it was obvious English wasn't their first language and I felt they did a good job acting in a language that isn't their native tongue. As a result, the good acting made up somewhat for the shortcomings in terms of character development in the story. Therefore, I could emotionally invest myself in the characters to a significant degree. It's just that I would have been able to care for them more if the story had developed them better. And if they didn't behave stupidly at times. 4. The filmmaker managed to do a lot with the limited location. There were only the woods and a few abandoned buildings but the director still managed to make an engaging story with the little he had.

All in all, this movie isn't anything groundbreaking. However, it is nowhere near SyFy Channel level quality in terms of clichés, predictability, and stupid behavior of the characters. They'd have to try way harder to get that low. The filmmaker definitely has potential. I can't deny that. It just didn't work with this movie. Some things were great, such as when he juxtaposed beautiful shots of nature with degrading human behavior. He knows how to be artistic without smothering the audience with pretentious arty-fartsy crap. Thumbs up for that. But other things brought this particular movie down. I believe he'll improve immensely in the future.

Watchability of the movie: the movie has a short scene with a woman being brutalized. If that makes you squeamish then you'd better beware. If you're not squeamish with that (aren't horror movies supposed to make you feel squeamish) then you won't have a problem with it. The gore is little and the zombie kills are off-screen. And the nudity is brief. Overall, if you really want to watch this one, watch it for free and if you have nothing at all better to do. Otherwise, just pass this one by.

Side note: good to see Italian filmmakers going back to genre fiction. Since the 80s, the Italian film industry has been saturated with romance, dramas, comedies, romantic comedies, and romance dramas galore. These films have a small market in Italy and an even smaller market internationally. I want to see Italy go back to their b-movie/exploitation genre film roots. True, their art films and historical dramas made them popular with art film critics. But their b-movies were internationally loved and the world film industry lost out tremendously when Italy abandoned their b-movies. Italy needs to make a comeback with their b-movies. Pronto!

Couldn't get passed the first 10 minutes.

[kleinjoshua-76516 · 1/10 · 29 June 2021]

Spoilers...of the first 10 minutes. Honestly so bad I shut it off. How the lady reacted to the situation was horrible. She ran away from the zombie..LEAVING HER 4 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER TO FEND FOR HERSELF. I have kids, I would have been going crazy trying to find my kid and make sure they are OK. And only after the zombie left did she start crying about her eaten daughter.

Garbage

[deathofasaint5 · 1/10 · 9 December 2016]

Complete garbage. Same horrible special effects and makeup. Acting by most of the actors was terrible. Zombies were ridiculously cheesy. Just another cheap horrible zombie film. Why do people keep making these things the same horrible way? Everyone is trashing this one particular zombie film and these producers thought"hey let's do the exact same thing they did"! Unlikable characters survive together after well it's not clear what happened but now there's zombies and medical experiments on humans. The story jumps back and forth a lot and is easy to get confused as to what is going on.The camera angles were also pretty bad too. Only good thing I can say about this film is the music score was decent.

i turned off this movie

[matthewsowards · 1/10 · 6 February 2016]

i turned it off because it showed a screaming girls breast on a table this made me and my wife very angry we also tried to look up a rating and nothing could be found at all i would not watch this movie with your kids we thought it would be something like the walking dead its not we only got a few mins into the movie before we see in your face breast without warning this makes us sick i hope their not letting kids into this movie i would sue the tar out of someone for exposing my kids to this trash i hope people get as angry as we are so they will start at least informing people of a movies content before throwing stuff they don"t want to be a part of in their face

WORDS ARE USED BY EVERYONE. WISDOM BY FEW.

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 16 July 2018]

"Apocalisse Zero - Anger of the Dead" and "Age of the Dead" are both the same Uwe Boll production. A virus or youth protesting causes a zombie outbreak. We poorly follow two subplots. One is about Alice who is pregnant and lost her daughter to a zombie snack. She hooks up with Steve and Peter and apparently drive around through Europe for four months as we get a "four months later" tag. Meanwhile another man is experimenting with a woman, possibly a patient zero, and in spite of her importance, she seems to be a sex toy based on the brief scenes of guys straightening out their pants when they leave her. The two subplots come together as we discover the proverbial ferry taking people away to an uninfected island.

There are not a lot of characters. The few that exist are boring and don't talk much. We don't get to know these people.

Guide: Implied sex, nudity (Désirée Giorgetti)

Terribly disappointing fi;,

[emmalvanriper · 1/10 · 26 October 2023]

Terrible, bad screen play, weak acting, No clear start, No clues given on how it started, Really cheesy opening. Then flashes of cheesy medical experiments, no clue as to what's going on with them. Terrible ending. I love a good Zombie film but this WTF, reminded me of cheap takeoffof walking dead but with no budget or good actors. The film was all all over the place, creating a confusing storyline. Film camera angles were terrible as well. The side story of the woman held prisoner left a confusing ho;e in the story and the group trying to get to the port were making simple disappointing decisions nobody in an apocalypse like that would make .. TERRIBLE GARBAGE.

Zzzzzzzzzz

[dlemon-43650 · 1/10 · 18 October 2021]

Slow, boring and dull. Thank God I only paid a buck for this . Watch anything from George Romero and avoid this like the plauge. But if you're having trouble sleeping throw this on and you'll be out in fifteen minutes.

Running Zombie Movies Suck.

[nightgallerycafe · 1/10 · 6 April 2022]

This came up in my Tubi feed as a suggestion today. So i started to watch it. It seems running zombie movies are the rage now. Even George Romero said Zombies shouldn't run. So when I see a zombie movie and they run it gets turned off. You cannot survive something that can outrun you. The second thing. Her husband calls her and tells her to stay put , lock the doors and don't answer it. So any normal loving parent would be checking on her child when told of this news. She seemed like she could care less. Then she watches this thing eat her kid. The first thing you do is defend and protect your child at all costs. Even if it means giving up your life for their's. The quality was good but it couldn't save it from me watching the first 10 minutes of it and shutting it off. Just say NO to running Zombie Movies.

Great film!

[mhyi · 10/10 · 29 June 2020]

It was a good watch to eat a perfect butter popcorn with my son! :)

A willing jump into the apocalypse.

[znowhite01 · 7/10 · 29 June 2015]

The latest entry in the saturated zombie sub-genre may not have much new to say but offers more maturity and technical competence than the average DSLR bloodbath. Director Francesco Picone manages to create dread and tension with carefully paced suspense and neatly-drawn characters even within the standard genre tropes of utopian hope and bleach-bypassed visuals. The result is a slick experience, if a familiar one, but with occasionally-welcomed twists and character reveals.

The attempts to hide Italian aspects of its production, like many 80s direct- to-video foreign action programmers, becomes apparent at times, but here the acting towers over its budget and shines enough to realistically portray an American landscape. The standout in the capable cast, Aaron Stielstra, is given an emotional subplot that is both heartbreaking and morally repugnant amidst the already copious amounts of gore and convincing practical effects. The film even allows for a quiet, introspective moment with this character to reveal the childhood memories of his dog. Luckily, the filmmakers and performers are able to balance this sentimentality with all the on screen mayhem in a way that helps raise the stakes rather than shamelessly manipulate them with hackneyed Hollywood ploys, even if much of the music seems recycled from inferior products.

Overall, a worthwhile production with some fine acting and thought put into it beyond just creative effects and kills.

Does not add anything new to the genre other than low production values

[jordondave-28085 · 2/10 · 13 April 2023]

(2015) Anger of the Dead SUSPENSE HORROR

Written and directed by Francesco Picone which opens with an expected mother, Alice (Roberta Sparta) losing her child to one of the already infected zombies after her child opened the door. She then cross paths with a young man, Stephen (Marius Bizau) who saves her by running over a zombie with his vehicle, they would then go on the path in the pursuit of looking for other sane survivors, along with another subplot.

Low production values, second rate acting and unconvincing gore effects, and does not add anything new to the genre of zombie apocalypse.

Picone offers a serious addition.

[amesmonde · 6 August 2015]

In a world ravaged by a virus that turns people into cannibals, survivors endeavour to reach an island, however, it's not just the zombies that are a threat.

Right from the opening where a little girl gets eaten you know it's not going to be a fluffy DTV addition to the genre. Writer/Director Francesco Picone's offering looks bigger than it is with real locations, lots of gore and a steady pace. Zombie completists au fait with Eaters (2011), Apocalypse Z (2013) aka "Zombie Massacre" and Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead (2015) will be familiar with the makeup style and saturated look that the talented (and friendly) Luca Boni and Marco Ristori have delivered in the past. Here they hang up their directing hats and don producer roles (along with Uwe Boll who incidentally has very little involvement, House of the Dead - this is not).

Picone takes up the reins and delivers similar aesthetics to Boni and Ristori. Jokes aside I tip my hat to Boll and company who appear to be single handily reviving the Italian zombie scene with another sub-genre addition. However, Picone's film is more refined, it's void of comedy, the make up is more realistic and the script along with the acting are better.

The blood, bite wounds, severed limbs are effective. After the strong opening it then jumps four months after the outbreak with a road trip story that includes a pregnant woman Alice played memorably by Roberta Sparta. It has emotion and some tension between her and Peter as they are chased down by the sound attracted fast moving infected. The characters have to make hard choices along the way. Both Désirée Giorgetti as the Prisoner and Aaron Stielstra as Rooker are notable, their story is hard hitting at times with a nasty female abuse subplot reminiscent of Joe Chien's Zombie 108's (2012). However, when the story follows Alice and Peter and the zombies are in the forefront it works much better.

The acting, make up effects and camera work is solid enough, and even though all the players appear to be named after characters or actors synonymous with the zombie genre it's not a Syfy channel production. Also refreshing its not set in the USA, the locations are quite interesting and to Picone's credit it benefits from a nihilistic down beat ending.

Anger of the Dead (A.K.A Age of the Dead) is worth viewing especially if you liked the aforementioned films, that said Picone's offering is appreciatively far more serious and debatably superior due to it's darker tone.

Bleh

[princesspwrm · 2/10 · 14 August 2023]

I'll preface this with saying I'll watch mostly anything if there's something I can glean from it, then it's worth it to me spend an hour or so kicking back to an ok zombie film (it's my favorite genre). I have definitely watched worse ones and will do so again.

Same as other reviews - poorly written script with too many plot holes, dialogue/acting was choppy, lack of a strong theme throughout (unless they theme was to show off the writer/director's unconscious hatred for women, then...nailed it!)

It's fine to make a statement about the strong vs. The weak when society breaks down, especially in a post-apocalyptic flick, as most of them do. But really - we get it - and got it about 20 minutes in. Didn't have to push it down our throats every 5 minutes. Your audience is intelligent enough to pick up on what you're trying to lay down.

Was there some other point that could have made? If it was something to do with hope and despair then it didn't quite get there. If it was that there is no point, that didn't resonate either.

If you want to just put something on, then this works, but don't expect anything meaningful. If you are looking for an overarching theme, something that makes you ask a question, spark a conversation, is thought-provoking, a new perspective or spin, entertaining, or something that delivers some purpose at the end, then this film is not for you.

Grim zombie horror outing

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 31 August 2021]

Pregnant Alice (a fine and credible performance by Roberta Sparta) and decent dude Stephen (nicely played by Marius Bizau) fight to survive in a hostile world in which an outbreak of flesh-eating zombies isn't the only threat to mankind's safety.

Writer/director Francesco Picone keeps the familiar, but still engrossing story moving along at a brisk pace, adroitly crafts a strong sense of mounting dread, delivers several cool moments of nasty gore, and maintains an appropriately tough'n'gritty take-no-prisoners tone (a couple of little girls actually get killed and eaten in this film!). The competent acting from the game no-name cast helps a lot: Aaron Stielstra as the ruthless Rooker, Michael Bizua as the vulnerable Peter, Desiree Giorgetti as a severely traumatized woman, and Claudio Camilli as dim-witted brute Hulk. Moreover, the characters are drawn with refreshing depth; even the bad guy Rooker possesses a certain wounded humanity. The surprise bummer ending packs a jolting punch. An on the money shocker.

Not as bad as the reviews say

[cocherdumas · 6/10 · 21 December 2019]

This movie is not produced by Blumhouse or any other big money production company, although I've gotta say I enjoyed it. Sure It's a B movie because, and it's obvious, they didn't have a large budget. I think with what they had, they made an entertaining flick. The acting was very good by the lead actress. I didn't really care for the actor playing the main bad guy but I was able to let it go because by that time I was rooting for the main actress to make it. I think it's worth a watch.

An adult film with some gruesome scenes

[Pairic · 6/10 · 10 May 2018]

Anger of the Dead (aka Age of the Dead): This is the full length film inspired by the short but little remains of that apart from the bridge scene. A pregnant woman and two men make there way across the Zombie infested countryside in the hope of reaching a ferry to an island refuge.

In a parallel story-line a woman is kept captive and experimented on by a Walking Dead Governor type who hopes to find a cure for his Zombie wife.

An adult film with some gruesome scenes, even though the worse is implied rather than shown. 6/10

Redeemed By Acting & Sharp Visuals

[HughBennie-777 · 29 June 2015]

Horror movies today survive on effects budgets and the number of graphic deaths on screen--unfortunately. But bad acting is death. To see bad acting in a film of any genre is death, this because the audience immediately doesn't believe the behavior they're seeing. Luckily this movie doesn't discount that important fact.

Here, the cast is very strong and they assist the mediocre story past its dubious outcomes and character motivations. The zombies who run rampant are eclipsed by a cast of humans more messed up and nasty than most. Aaron Stielstra (as a demented, sadistic warlord) is not to be forgotten, as are attractive leads Roberta Sparta and Marius Bizau, both lending gravity to the usual doomed zombie escape- plans. Desiree' Giorgetti is memorable as the movie's damaged mute prisoner.

Despite some melodramatic music pieces and the fact that the protagonist seriously lacks Mommy skills--due to the script--the movie has an excellent pace and is beautifully photographed. Carlo Diamantini's makeup is to be applauded, as well. Some dodgy locations may bewilder viewers accustomed to seeing familiar American sights, but the overall nightmare-fantasy quality to the movie will hopefully silence continuity geeks. Geeks who should be grateful for the acting, rather than squealing about occasional weird-looking license plates.

Overall, a strong and vivid flick. But without its equally vivid cast, may not have survived exile to the Walmart bin. Check it out!

Better than most

[moorek · 9 October 2015]

Odd movie with two subplots that merge for a very short time but then separate again. Neither of them resolved for the audience. Horror is more serious as children and defenseless women are attacked but most violence is just off screen. Acting isn't bad but I did find it wooden. I found I didn't come to care for many of the characters. Lots of silly things that we've seen in other movies like running down a highway to get away when the bad guy has a car or sitting around with your car window down waiting for something to jump up and bite you. The worst was sleeping in a camp tent WITH a fire outside. Talk about feeling vulnerable. Having said all of that I still liked the movie. I found it different from other low budget zombie films.