Aylesbury Dead (2015) User Reviews

Could have been better, a lot better...

[vmv-rantanen · 3/10 · 8 February 2020]

Didn't expect much, but i have to say i expected a bit more. For example the flick with a similar budget profile, After the Outbreak, was a lot better.

The sound is bad at places (mumbled speech, wind hissing in the mike etc.) and the music choices are not my cup of tea. The script is unsurprising, and characters very shallow. There is very little drama - but at least there are no obnoxious characters to create unnecessary drama with erratic behaviour, like in so many zombie movies (this was a good call). But... The script has horrible very basic faux pas' - lights on durin the night in zombie apocalypse, not closing doors etc.. Personally i hate those mutation things in zombie movies (you'll know what i mean if u watch this).

The pacing works ok, but the tension is not there. The acting is certainly not good, but at least relaxed, concidering at least most of the actors are not professionals - the issue is more in the script and propably in directing the actors. Kudos for the burning building special effect.

A bad movie, but have seen worse (like the American one with Shatner in the cell in the beginning, can't remember the name). A very weak three, but easy to watch.

Try to stay awake

[saracen238 · 2/10 · 17 March 2020]

It's hard to imagine someone could make a boring movie about the zombie apocalypse, but here's the proof. Now sure, it's an amateur, low-budget first effort; but I saw nothing in it to make me think this was just a first uneasy foray into movie-making. What it struck me as was someone had the cash, delusions of adequacy, and could talk their friends into helping them out. The sound quality varies wildly but is often too poor to hear. The acting isn't a total write-off, but it's far from good. Originality is just not present at all; all the ideas have been "borrowed"...from somewhere else. The story doesn't explain things that SHOULD be explained; such as how did the zombies manage to break into the (presumably) locked and secure shopping centre? The characters show a decided lack of 'zombie apocalypse' logic throughout; most of the time few of them have anything even resembling a weapon (but somehow, from God-knows where, one of them has a grenade...); but especially when they go into the house after the young girl collapses on the street. They don't close the door, don't close the curtains, don't barricade the doors and windows, don't check for food or supplies, they just flop down and kip! Then when they meet the "soldiers", none of them are in British uniforms or carrying British weapons, and the "secure area" doesn't even have the most rudimentary protection at all! How they got the money (and the self-deluded audacity) to make a sequel is beyond me.

Horrible, horrible, horrible

[Stevieboy666 · 1/10 · 19 April 2019]

A zombie apocalypse has broken out in the English town of Aylesbury and a group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall. Absolutely zero marks for originality! There was a time when the words "zombie movie" conjured up names such as Val Lewton, George Romero and Lucio Fulci. Then Shaun of the Dead came along. Fantastic film but sadly it opened the floodgates to a deluge of bad, unoriginal zombie movies. Suddenly, everybody with a camera thought they could be the next Romero! Aylesbury Dead is one of the worst examples. I take into account the director/writer is an amateur, working on a very low budget, so credit due for at least getting the film made. Some of the physical gore make up was reasonably good (the CGI sucked, however), the Elle character was pretty easy on the eye and effective use was made of filming locations (the shopping centre & a cinema, though I'm sure that vehicles can be heard driving, maybe zombies can drive!?). The sound was very poor at times, even with the volume on max I struggled at times to hear what was being said. Continuity was really bad. But, aside from the lack of originality, it is the acting that really kills this movie. Quite possibly the worst I have had the misfortune to endure, and that's saying something! This was averaging 5.7/10, with 13 votes. No doubt some of them were from people connected with it, but given time, should people subject themselves to watching this, that score will plummet to a realistic one.