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Raiders of the Damned is set in a post apocalyptic world in which a military virus named Agent-9X has created a horde of flesh eating zombies & starts above a 'Restricted Area, Government Quarantined Zone' where a military helicopter flies high above the flesh eating, rotting zombies below. Dr. Wells (Elijah Murphy) & his glamorous assistant Stephanie (Amanda Scheutzow) are conducting research when the zombies fire some rocks from a catapult which downs the helicopter. They are captured at the request of the head zombie dude Colonel Crow (Thomas Martwick) who needs Dr. Wells scientific knowledge as he & his zombie army are rotting away inside the restricted walled off area. A few military survivors also need Dr. Wells to try & put a stop to the airborne virus & the zombies it created, the boss-man Lewis (Richard Grieco) sets a small platoon up consisting of Gena Kane (Laura Zoe Quist), Trejo (Laurie Clemens), Flex (J.C. Austin) & the squad leader Crenshaw (Gary Sirchia) who leads them into the restricted area to do battle with Colonel Crow & his zombies in a bid to retrieve mankind's only hope Dr. Wells...

Produced & directed by Milko Davis I have to say that Raiders of the Damned is a terrible film, of that there is no doubt but I saw signs here that at least the filmmakers tried. The script by Mike Ezell is certainly ambitious as it moves along at a pretty good pace & involves helicopters, futuristic weaponry, fights, shoot-outs, talking & thinking zombies, a post apocalyptic world, underground military bases & more but I'm afraid that the filmmakers just didn't have the resource's available to do the decent sounding premise justice. The character's are of the worst clichés you can imagine & the script is simply not fleshed out or expanded upon enough to tell a satisfying & coherent story, I mean how did us humans manage to get all the zombies in one place behind a giant wall? Why don't the military just drop a bomb on them? If all the zombies are trapped inside the restricted area why does everyone live three mile below the surface, why doesn't everyone just move to another continent or something & let the zombies literally rot there? Because of the airborne disease? Well why can't they use protective suits with breathing equipment? Is this film set in the future? No mention of it is made but they seem to have laser guns & futuristic gadgets but still need to use horses to get around? There are so many plot holes & unclear ideas in Raiders of the Damned that it becomes frustrating to watch as it seems to change things all the time. The fact that when you consider all these loose threads it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Oh & the underground military survivors divided into two groups, the army & the scientists, reminded me of the infinitely superior Day of the Dead (1985) as it will you...

Director Davis was obviously working on a tiny budget & just tries to do too much, from having helicopters shot down which end up looking like graphics in a bad Playstation game to zombie make-up which isn't even glued onto the actors faces properly as you can see their mouths move but their fake chins stay perfectly still. The locations used seem like derelict warehouses & a local wood. There is no atmosphere, tension & there's definitely no scares either & the action scenes are so bland even they become boring. The gore is none existent, a couple of decapitations & a quick slit throat.

The budget for this must have been virtually zero, technically Raiders of the Damned is very poor from start to finish in just about every department. The acting wasn't too bad actually & I quite liked Martwick as the main zombie. On another note is this the depths that Richard Grieco has now stooped to to find work? This has to be an all time low even for him!

Raiders of the Damned is crap to be sure, it's as simple & straight forward as that but I got the sense that everyone involved tried which ultimately wasn't good enough for me, or you, to waste 90 plus minutes of my life on this but I'll give them some credit for that at least. When all said & done though Raiders of the Damned is one to avoid I'm afraid.

Although IMDb insists this is still in post production, it's not. Which is a shame because it really needed more work. I watched this a few nights ago on the Horror Channel (uk) and have to say that even for the Horror Channel this is a new low.

There are Zombies, and scientists and the military but this is by no means anywhere near as good as anything Romero has done.

Richard Grieco gives the worst acting performance of his life, and thats saying something as I've seen him in a film about giant spiders.

My favourite part of the film has to be one actor getting upstaged by a coughing horse. It's all very high school drama, the special effects are far from special.

If the idea of zombie sex does it for you then this could well be the film you have been waiting for.

The special effects were comical. The acting was bad.

Richard Greico as a scientist reminded me of me of spastic Brad Dourif. The zombies "live" inside a walled area where the military drops a napalm type substance to kill them. When the zombies shoot down a helicopter with a makeshift catapult, a crack team is assembled to rescue them. The zombies prefer to eat eyes and they do try to breed with one female.

The movie moves along slow. You can miss 10-20 minutes at a time and still keep up with the plot.

i myself love horrors films, i also love "horror" films there *is* a difference "horror" films are the ones you can laugh about, now raiders of the dammed is a "horror" film. ---------------effects----------------------- the effects in this film are really bad, the thing is, they don't try to be good, they just do the best they can. --------------acting------------------------- the acting in raiders of the dammed is really quite bad, the actors and actresses are clearly untrained or not trained well in any form of fighting there is one scene where she kicks someone over and its a pretty pathetic kick giving the zombie ample time to react.

but all in all raiders of the dammed is a film that most people would hate and i recommend it to anyone who will laugh along with it. (my friends are the people i would) there aren't many people who'd like this sort of film and my mates are the only people i know that would.