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Release Date: 2007-11-06
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Awake the Dead
Okay people, after reading these reviews in Amazon, I was wondering if I watched the same movie as some of you guys did, the acting was terrible, the zombies were terrible and laughable at, the indoor sences were fuzzy and hard to view the plot just plain stunk to high heaven. In fact the only reason I bought this stupid movie was the reviews that were given in Amazon, and in doing so prompt me to write my own review and warn the people not to purchase this flick at any price, even if you only had to pay the price of shipping it wouldn't be worth it. I've seen alot of zombie movies and like I said you guys either didin't see the same zombie flick as I did or your taste buds in zombie films are really, really bad, so please don't buy this movie......Great twist on the Zombie thing....add some espionage!
I went into this movie with an open mind....horror's not my gig. But since I loved the sarcasm in Shaun of the Dead.....and I know the writer's got a gift for finding the humor in the horror, I was thrilled that I laughed out loud. Come on, you high brow horror snobs, this is an independent, rough, yes, cliche' on purpose, attempt to revive the genre with humor, and intrigue. What were you expecting Meryl Streep? The fun of the horror flick is the classically flawed acting...this is social, personal, government intrigue taken tongue in cheek. So here's my thought, if you liked Shaun of the Dead, you'll enjoy Awaken the Dead! If you are looking for some glossy studio take on this kitschy genre....move on there's plenty of average stuff out there like that. This movie starts out like a joke on purpose, What do a priest, a prostitute and a Jehovah's witness have in common?.....Watch it to find out...I guarantee you'll laugh and be surprised in the end! I know I did.Awaken the cliche's
Indeed, that was the real foe in this low-budget, easily forgettable film. I am very forgiving when it comes to bad acting, but the famale lead who played Mary went about and beyond the call of duty to cinch the worst actress imaginable award. For the first five minutes after she appears, she does nothing but swear and spit nonsense in this nasally, gravelly voice. Add a priest with no substance whatsoever, and a bubble-headed Jehova's Witness and you experience what happens when writers commit the cardinal sin of creating non-sympathetic characters whose fates you are comepletely apathetic towards. The film is shot terribly in bleak black and white for the most part with this annoying techno music playing throughout most of it. Every cliche' possible is mined here: the siege in the house, the "insider" infected who later turns, the ridiculous metaphysical musing about whether or not this is divine retribution, the warm-hearted human protagonist and the cold as nails partner.....the hits just keep missing. There are some good indie zombie flicks: Zombietown, Boy Eats Girl, Special Dead (one of my favs)---but this isn't one of them.Priesterine
This movie was a freakin' riot.. The acting was bad, the story was suppose to be intricate, but it reeked of amateur/low budget sceenplay writing. The zombies were a mix of okay looking ones and cheeseball.. So why give this move five stars you may ask? Because it was funny as hell.. The main chatacter was a priest with a shady past, and the guy who plays him looks like a Hugh Jackman reject. In fact, this priest character is very much portrayed as a Wolverine type of guy.. He's a good guy now, but had a dark past and was an assassin.. He snarls like Jackman when he finally becomes all kick axe in the movie and is even refered to as a killing machine..lol.. It was like Priesterine, meets an angry prositute, meets a Jehovah's Witness, meets the cheeseball living dead, meets Days Of Our Lives. The whole movie just had a soap opera feel to it, and someohow remined me of a Days Of Our Lives episode as well. In fact, I could see the guy who played the Priest gracing the set of Days quite nicely.. The story does not come together well at all.. it's full of holes, crappy acting, grainy quality filming and Wolverine rip offs.. My head spins to think how some reviews said this was a good story and the characters seemed real, because neither was true in my book.. And the zombie action was not that great and not that much at times.. So again, why five stars???? Because I went to bed laughing and woke up the same way, with hysterical scenes of this movie playing through my head. I also walked away from this flick with a few good cheesey lines to say to family memebers and friends.. This is the kind of movie that you watch with other people and have your own Mystery Science Theatre moments.. It's good for nothing else, believe me.. Not even priesterine could save the day on this one... But it gets a fiver for being a real gas!!!!!!DONT BUY THIS - I DID AND IT'S A WASTE OF MONEY!
This is by far the WORST movie I've bought. Where to start...
1) DVD quality sucks. The audio/video don't sync up. The film is grainy, it looks like someone produced it on a PC with the lowest resolution quality. YOU-TUBE QUALITY resolution!
2) The script writing is HORRIBLE.
3) The acting is worse than the worst community theater group I've ever seen.
4) The "special effect" makup is oatmeal and watered-down ketchup and chocolate syrup.
In conclusion, the master copy of this movie should have been a "BURN PROGRAM" (play once and then destroyed, just like in the plot of the movie).
Product Description
A priest with a troubled past and an assassin's daughter find themselves trapped in a house surrounded by the undead. As they battle each other and the walking dead, the secret threads of their past lives bind them together in a web of conspiracy and death. Their only hope for survival lies in facing their greatest fears and their darkest secrets. In a world ruled by betrayal, the real monsters may not be outside. Redemption comes with a price.
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