The DVD case for this movie advertised it as a prequel to Day Of The Dead, but that is misleading. The opening scene is set in 1968 (presumably before the events of George A Romero’s ground breaking, genre defining Night Of The Living Dead), but the rest of the movie is set in the now.
A group of patients from the Ravenside mental institution (Romero Ward) discover a canister that contains a biological weapon from the sixties. The contents of the canister are released in the hospital turning the occupants in to zombies.
This film is deadful on many levels. The acting is especially bad, and it is mainly the actor’s pretending to be mentally different that is so inept. The rest of the actors, the direction, and the script, are so awful the movie becomes funny. But not clever funny like Reanimator. The effects are okay for a low budget movie, but the biggest offence is claiming this movie fits in to the Living Dead universe. It is an insult to Romero’s work. Dan O’Bannon did a much better job with Return Of The Living Dead, which explored the scenario of living people opening a canister of the zombie gas and becoming the living dead, with much greater skill and style.
The strangest thing about this movie is it makes me want to see Romero do a version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Or maybe I just want to see Pride and Prejudice and Zombies made in to a movie.
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