A group of friends travel to one's grandfather's house to clean up the estate and get it ready to sell, and while throwing a party to celebrate, end up encountering the mutated zombies created from a genetic experiment he was working on and must get away from the bloodthirsty ghouls.
This was quite a decent newcomer from Germany in the zombie sweepstakes. What works for this one is the incredibly fun attacks here as the zombies come out frequently in the last half of this. There's plenty of fun here in the main attacks on the house that are featured with the first big sequence of the creatures appearing in the bushes to drag away the first victim, a fantastic attack on the gang during their party when the other criminal arrives to attack the group and the resulting chaos lights off plenty of explosions setting the zombies on fire and continuing to attack them inside the house and the second big attack here where the gunfire brought to bear on the zombies gives it a lot of action, blood and gore. The final half is even better with a series of big encounters against the zombies attempting to break in from outside against the big barricades put there resulting in great action holding them off, the great brawls against the zombified friends and finally up into the big tower for the great bird attacks up there which give this one a lot of fun for the finale. Along with the great zombie make-up and gore, the plot is also a bit topical in that the bird flu is the cause for their contagion, in that the released virus is supposedly a cure for the disease only it makes the inhabitants a lot more feral than expected, all make this one decent enough to hold off the flaws within this. The main factor against this here is the off-beat pace, as its pretty much dead from the beginning. There's not a whole lot of stuff going on that's all that interesting due to the rather lame series of subplots that don't really do anything to move it along in those sections. From spending all the time here in the convenience store, the policeman harassing the group all the way or getting lost out on the highways, there's little here that could've been kept as a lot of this could've been skipped over for getting closer to the action. Even still, the house is no better with it consisting of nothing but the group drinking, ripping on each other and generally acting like complete jerks to each other that it really seems to question why their friends with each other here building up all this supposedly suspenseful scenes of the group being watched. Likewise, it tends to follow-up on getting the zombie attacks so late in the film that all of these really drag the film out and it rarely feels like a horror film in those parts, so it leaves a lot to be desired. There's also some unanswered questions here in this one featuring a kung-fu expert zombie in the attacks for no reason. Overall, it needs work but it's still a lot more watchable than expected.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Violence and Brief Nudity.
This was quite a decent newcomer from Germany in the zombie sweepstakes. What works for this one is the incredibly fun attacks here as the zombies come out frequently in the last half of this. There's plenty of fun here in the main attacks on the house that are featured with the first big sequence of the creatures appearing in the bushes to drag away the first victim, a fantastic attack on the gang during their party when the other criminal arrives to attack the group and the resulting chaos lights off plenty of explosions setting the zombies on fire and continuing to attack them inside the house and the second big attack here where the gunfire brought to bear on the zombies gives it a lot of action, blood and gore. The final half is even better with a series of big encounters against the zombies attempting to break in from outside against the big barricades put there resulting in great action holding them off, the great brawls against the zombified friends and finally up into the big tower for the great bird attacks up there which give this one a lot of fun for the finale. Along with the great zombie make-up and gore, the plot is also a bit topical in that the bird flu is the cause for their contagion, in that the released virus is supposedly a cure for the disease only it makes the inhabitants a lot more feral than expected, all make this one decent enough to hold off the flaws within this. The main factor against this here is the off-beat pace, as its pretty much dead from the beginning. There's not a whole lot of stuff going on that's all that interesting due to the rather lame series of subplots that don't really do anything to move it along in those sections. From spending all the time here in the convenience store, the policeman harassing the group all the way or getting lost out on the highways, there's little here that could've been kept as a lot of this could've been skipped over for getting closer to the action. Even still, the house is no better with it consisting of nothing but the group drinking, ripping on each other and generally acting like complete jerks to each other that it really seems to question why their friends with each other here building up all this supposedly suspenseful scenes of the group being watched. Likewise, it tends to follow-up on getting the zombie attacks so late in the film that all of these really drag the film out and it rarely feels like a horror film in those parts, so it leaves a lot to be desired. There's also some unanswered questions here in this one featuring a kung-fu expert zombie in the attacks for no reason. Overall, it needs work but it's still a lot more watchable than expected.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Violence and Brief Nudity.