This is a movie about the most boring couple in the world who take the most boring vacation in the world and turn into the most boring zombies in the world. It is both tediously stupid and stupidly tedious. The writing, direction and acting are so uniformly dreadful that it's hard to understand why the cast and crew didn't mutiny halfway through production to find something better to do with their time.
John (Johnathan Flanigan) and Jenny (Beverly Hynds) are driving through the woods one night on their way to their cabin. Their SUV gets a flat tire, John gets bit by a zombie and they walk the rest of the way to the cabin. Once there, they essentially lay around for days while John decays and infects Jenny. As our zombie duo develops the urge to kill, Jenny refuses while John is happy to slaughter and eat anyone who wanders into the woods. This goes on and on and on until this 92 minute movie feels like it's 76 hours long before it mercifully puts itself out of its misery.
I'll give writer/director Carl Lindbergh credit for one thing. T his is a good idea for a story. But you know what? Everybody has good ideas. Very few have the talent and ambition to do anything with them. Lindbergh is an example of the bane of modern cinema. He has a good idea and a little ambition but absolutely no talent at all. You can make a movie so cheaply and so easily nowadays that the marketplace if drowning in irredeemable pieces of crap from deluded half-wits like Lindbergh.
This movie has bad lighting, bad sound, bad make up and bad camera work. The plot will put you to sleep, the dialog will put you in a coma and the acting will put you six feet under. Even the hairdos on the main characters are notably wretched. Johnathan Flanigan looks like Luke Perry from the middle of the second season of Beverly Hills 90210 and Beverly Hynds is sporting a feathered bob cut that looks like some sort of medieval half-helmet.
Shadows of the Dead is such a waste of time that it even screws up a zombie sex scene. Just think of that phrase, "zombie sex scene". It conjures up all sorts of gross, crazy, disturbing and cool images, doesn't it? Well, Lindbergh takes this awesomely freaked-out concept and films it like makeout session from a PG-13 teen romance where his zombified couple suddenly looks completely healthy and human. Here is a scene that even a retarded chipmunk could have made incredibly gross and/or incredibly funny, and Lindbergh just makes it incredibly blah.
Even if you're a huge fan of the living dead, avoid Shadows of the Dead as though your life depended on it.
John (Johnathan Flanigan) and Jenny (Beverly Hynds) are driving through the woods one night on their way to their cabin. Their SUV gets a flat tire, John gets bit by a zombie and they walk the rest of the way to the cabin. Once there, they essentially lay around for days while John decays and infects Jenny. As our zombie duo develops the urge to kill, Jenny refuses while John is happy to slaughter and eat anyone who wanders into the woods. This goes on and on and on until this 92 minute movie feels like it's 76 hours long before it mercifully puts itself out of its misery.
I'll give writer/director Carl Lindbergh credit for one thing. T his is a good idea for a story. But you know what? Everybody has good ideas. Very few have the talent and ambition to do anything with them. Lindbergh is an example of the bane of modern cinema. He has a good idea and a little ambition but absolutely no talent at all. You can make a movie so cheaply and so easily nowadays that the marketplace if drowning in irredeemable pieces of crap from deluded half-wits like Lindbergh.
This movie has bad lighting, bad sound, bad make up and bad camera work. The plot will put you to sleep, the dialog will put you in a coma and the acting will put you six feet under. Even the hairdos on the main characters are notably wretched. Johnathan Flanigan looks like Luke Perry from the middle of the second season of Beverly Hills 90210 and Beverly Hynds is sporting a feathered bob cut that looks like some sort of medieval half-helmet.
Shadows of the Dead is such a waste of time that it even screws up a zombie sex scene. Just think of that phrase, "zombie sex scene". It conjures up all sorts of gross, crazy, disturbing and cool images, doesn't it? Well, Lindbergh takes this awesomely freaked-out concept and films it like makeout session from a PG-13 teen romance where his zombified couple suddenly looks completely healthy and human. Here is a scene that even a retarded chipmunk could have made incredibly gross and/or incredibly funny, and Lindbergh just makes it incredibly blah.
Even if you're a huge fan of the living dead, avoid Shadows of the Dead as though your life depended on it.