First off this film shouldn’t be confused with the 2006 film that was also entitled Dorm of the Dead. If you judge either by quality of the film they’d be hard to tell about but the plots, characters, etc are completely different. It kind of worried me for a moment that I may be losing my taste for budget zombie films. I was worried because I have to say that the last 4 that I’ve seen really left a bad taste in my mouth. This worry quickly drove me to check out other reviews of the film online and quickly I learned one important thing – I couldn’t find a single one that gave this a positive review. WHEW! There aren’t a lot of people who have seen the movie and I’m not sure if adding one will give the film more attention or drive people away from it. I’m kind of hoping for the second option.
Unless you are George A. Romero can you please stop making a “MOVIENAME of the Dead” and come up with an original title? I’m sorry I know you are trying to give it as a tribute but really at this point if it has nothing to do with Romero’s universe or based off of it there is no reason to keep using the naming scheme.
So in the film we’re going to see a clearly indie made film about a zombie outbreak that occurs on a campus that is somehow cutoff from the rest of the world. The person who is broadcasting from the student news area is explained that the broadcast is on a closed loop so no one outside can see anything but cell phones and more work yet they can’t seem to find help. I know what you are thinking about our cast of college kids who are stuck on a campus that yes phones are down because there is an outbreak everywhere but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Also in our group of survivors (lead by 2 brothers who are at odds with one another) they seem to only have 1 car between the lot of them which will not hold everyone. With the car’s owner keeping quiet about it we see the crew traveling between buildings for safety they don’t seem to utilize them for any reason.
While we clearly see dorm rooms, a library, and the remains of a frat party turned zombie none if it screams ‘hey we’re at college and all going to die’ in a way to get the adrenaline pumping. Speaking of the frat party one might ask why everyone stayed there to become of of the undead instead of all running in terror or why none of the zombies wandered off after. Add in the fact that you really don’t care about the characters and you may end this one before getting through the entire movie.
The zombies themselves are nothing special either. We’re really treated to some quick makeup that isn’t shown on screen for that long with some quick and not so gruesome kills. While I’ve seen worse films I was pretty much bored ten minutes in and stayed that way throughout the majority of the film. It isn’t the worse thing out there but I wouldn’t recommend viewing this one unless you are desperate to see every zombie film that is out there. Really this film ended up being all filler and no killer.
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