When his plane crashes, Lieutenant Brian Murphy, a United States Air Force engineer, must run the gauntlet across an African landscape, battling against the ever-present threat of the living dead!
9 January 1973, Hazlemere, Surrey, England, UK
January 21, 2012
The Dead is not the great zombie film I was hoping for but it does deliver a more grown-up horror film that eschews gimmicky shakycam and CGI to try and tell a real story, and for that I am appreciative.
October 07, 2011
"The Dead," evocatively filmed in grainy 35mm, might carry the cinematic vibe of an old-school, flesh-eating adventure, but as it should be with stories like this, it's not a pretty picture.
October 06, 2011
Beyond its auspicious premise -- survivors fighting a zombie outbreak against the continent's scorching vistas -- there's little else to chew on here.
October 13, 2011
A long, chemistry-free slog through the zombified countryside.
May 23, 2013
A dread filled homage to the classic zombie pictures of the seventies and eighties...
October 07, 2011
You get used to the sight of the slow-moving undead swaying against the film's natural landscapes like half-imagined phantoms, and somehow that makes them more unnerving.
October 07, 2011
The film provides a whole new way of looking at the same old dead things. Eat up.
October 10, 2011
The ironies of the white man having to face potential extinction in a country infamous for racially tinged violence is too neat.
October 14, 2011
The Ford brothers' take on this tradition offers a fair number of shocks and the arm-chomping that is de rigueur mortis for this genre. Yet it has things to say, mostly by implication, before a finish that took me by surprise.
September 07, 2011
With its desiccated plains and rotting crops, the Africa depicted in the Ford Brothers' zombie flick proves an evocative setting.
October 11, 2011
The Dead, with its vast, pitiless landscapes and moral seriousness, is Night of the Living Dead reimagined as a Sergio Leone western. It's a knockout.
February 25, 2012
The Dead reveres the films that came before it and wears its love for them on its sleeve.
