Undead

Undead is an amusing enough Australian entry into the zombie comedy genre. The plot is nothing to write home about - girl is trying to leave her horrible small town by hitching a ride with some skeevy guy from the city but is thwarted when meteors rain from the sky and turn people into zombies. She gets rescued by the local quiet nut job who has been warning everyone about the imminent invasion ever since he was attacked by zombie fish. They band together with other survivors and spend the rest of the movie trying to escape the town. Throw in some rain-making, giant-wall-building aliens somewhere along the way. Yay.

Effects aren't worth noting, either. The film was funded entirely by the directors' family and friends and all of the money seemingly went to buying as much corn syrup and red food coloring as possible.

But I still liked this movie. The characters make it work. Well, two of them do. The rest can get stuffed. On the one hand is the excitable local constable. He's completely snapped in response to the zombies and much of the comedy early in the film stems from his swear-ridden dialog.

On the other hand is Marion, the poor bastard/gun shop owner whose life was turned around in a fistfight in the middle of a lake with a couple of zombie fish. I don't think he stops to reload his guns (except perhaps the one he made by welding three shotguns to a crossbar) once in the entire film; he simply pulls new ones out of his clothing. I do not particularly care to speculate as to how he accomplishes this feat while naked. Perhaps he was hiding them under his hat.