Flight Of The Living Dead Reviews

It's like DAWN OF THE DEAD (the remake) meets SNAKES ON A PLANE. It has some decent moments, but overall it's pretty boring up until the climax, when the action really picks up. Considering the film takes place on the potentially claustrophobic setting of an airplane, you would think the filmmakers would take care to build tension and suspense, but they don't. Once the zombie action starts (at about 37 minutes into the movie), it's just a matter of the zombies picking off passengers one or two at a time (kind of like a slasher film); until the climax where the remaining survivors face-off against the growing zombie horde. No real effort at character developement is made either - they're all just one dimensional - you don't care for or hate any of the passengers, so it doesn't really matter when they get killed off. Sacrificing tension, suspense, and character developement is all fine by me in a zombie movie as long as it's replaced by a massively gory bloodbath, and considering this movie was released unrated, I was expecting more gore. The zombies mainly just go for the throat (and not the Lucio Fulci style throat-ripping blood-spewing gore geysers, unfortunately). No gutmunching either. This probably could have been rated R, but I doubt they bothered submitting it to the MPAA since it was a staight-to-video release. The filmmakers tried to inject some humor into the proceedings - some of it works, but much of it falls flat. There are some fairly creative zombie kills, however. One zombie is dispatched by having a closed umbrella shoved into its mouth and out the back of its head - then the umbrella is opened. That was pretty cool. In closing, it was fairly entertaining and worth one viewing, but I wouldn't buy it and have no real desire to see it again.