Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Flight Of The Living Dead (3)

If there is junk out there like this trying to cash in on a current fad, then maybe there is a rash of zombie movies after all. The only reason that I didn't fast forward through this film was because I was waiting for something... something better, but it ever came. It's a 3 (I really shouldn't have watched this - nobody should).

Pick a setting (a plane flying through a storm), a b-grade horror plot (a zombie virus) and cliche characters (a retiring pilot, a nun, a cop, mad scientists et al), add in gore and the acting abilities of a damp sponge, and you have this film. Scientists are transporting dead fellow scientist in a refrigerated trunk on a standard passenger plane. She has died from a mutated malaria virus which can reanimate it's dead host. Flying through a storm, the case open and she begin to turn the passengers into more zombies. Luckily the cop, the air marshal, the guard, all have guns and loads of bullets so begins the zombie-gore-fest-shooting-spree.

There was only one thing that I liked in this film. The comic criminal who began chained to the cop - he was funny. I was hoping that this was a going to be a spoof or comedy, but it's just a lame blood bath that didn't manage to be very funny.

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