DeadHeads is a fun romp that was written and directed by Brett and Drew T. Pierce (brothers and son of Bart Pierce who was the special effects photographer of a film you may have heard of – The Evil Dead) who really were able to put together a fun romp in a world of the undead. Speaking of the writer’s heritage they did stick a small scene at a drive-in theater that shows them watching The Evil Dead. You probably aren’t going to recognize most of the cast in this film though overtime I’m sure we’re all going to be hoping to see more of them.
Honestly it takes a lot for zombie comedies to impress me. Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland both pulled it off but few others have been able to really make me enjoy them past that. Mix in the fact that I generally hate intelligent zombies and you know I’m going to be watching DeadHeads with a highly critical eye as our two main characters are both intelligent zombies.
While it didn’t pull off the perfect mix of outbreak and humor of SOTD and Zombieland I found myself fully enjoying DeadHeads. The characters were likable, the situations were mostly entertaining, and the flow was fluid as one scene blended perfectly into the next. Most importantly they took an idea (the buddy road trip to save a relationship) and stuck it into a zombie apocalypse in a way that hasn’t been done before! At least not in a film that I’ve seen!
We begin the movie as Mike finds himself trapped in a laboratory and runs to escape whoever had him captured. He quickly stumbles across a full blown zombie apocalypse is in the process of spreading. What he doesn’t realize is that he is one of the living dead. He stumbles across another fellow not so quite brain dead brain eater named Brent and they slowly piece together what happened. It goes extra slow as both of seem to be suffering from memory loss that is slowly returning but the emphasis is on slowly.
When Mike remembers a woman that he loves they set on a road trip to get him back to the only memory he has that he seems to give a damn about. The journey itself is not easy. They are being hunted by the military, rednecks, a man trying to kill all of the undead, AND they need to get there before the zombie outbreak truly spreads across the globe.
Humor ensues as they bring one of of the living dead along with them who seems to be following them like a lost puppy. What will happen when Mike finds his lost love? Who is behind the chaos that is happening?
You are going to have to rent or buy the film to find it all out and while not all of the humor hits the high notes it strives for you should find the movie to be a fun visit into the lands of the undead.
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