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Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane

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Zombie dine out sessions on Delta Airlines! News at 12!

Oct 26, 2012

by Madpenguin
posted in Movie Hype

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A 747 Jumbo Jet carries a dangerous cargo together with its passengers. Dr. Bennett(Erick Avari) along with his associates are carrying a virus that reanimates the dead. Soon, an accident occurs, when a woman who happens to be the test subject for the virus breaks loose. Together with her first victims, they begin to attack the passenagers and spread the infection.-summary

Now lets get straight to the point. This is an all out battle/chompfest involving the living dead, nothing more and nothing less. There's more taking place to give the film a solid story, but don't come into this expecting an intellectual, Romero-ish social commentary. The only thing social going on, is the living dead forcing the living to stay over for dinner... or should I say as dinner.

I was very interested in seeing this film when I first heard of it. When I thought about a zombie outbreak on an airplane, my curiousity was indeed aroused, yet I was very concerned. Curious because I thought, "hey it's on a plane, there's no escape". Then I also thought, "but how big can a plane be on the inside?". Both my curiosity and concern was laid to rest after I saw how it was pulled off. Flight of the Living Dead directed by Scott Thomas is pretty low budget, but it delivers by being a fun ride, with some added cheese for good measure. Thomas knew he didn't have much to work with here and it shows, but he stuck to his cool dance moves once he found his groove.

The film spends about the first quarter introducing all of the characters. Most notably are the two heroes, Truman(David Chisum) who happens to be a cop sharing handcuffs with his prisoner Frank(Kevin J. O' Conner) and Paul Judd(Richard Tyson) a US Air Marshall. Truman and Paul spend a great deal gunning down the zombies, until a twist soon comes into play. Most of the cast are nothing more than bodies to be decimated or completely devoured.

The action and gore is where it's at. Those searching mainly for zombies and humans offing each other may not be disappointed. There are numerous zombie dine out sessions, I mean non stop total chaos. Zombies chasing passengers through the plane, tearing off legs, crawling through the vents with an arm in their mouth. Some real good stuff, and I can tell Thomas had fun with this one.

Things take a turn for the worst concerning our heroes and survivors. The government happened to piece together Dr. Bennett's true intentions with the virus. Eventually, they come up with a plan to try and contain it. I'll just say things aren't looking too good for our friends in battle.

There are flaws to the film, such as too much filler in the beginning and sub par acting. Most of the characters are uninteresting, mainly because they're mere plot devices. However, they're very well used for the most part. The annoying ones become zombies, and they eliminate the other annoying ones. You can't really ask for more. The gore can be bad or good depending on how a viewer feels about CGI. I enjoyed it somewhat, but personally, I feel all horror should go without it. Especially, when I see a zombie film with zombies taking big nibbles out of their prey. I want it to look as bloody real as possible. The BGM is nothing really special, but it does effectively carry the fast paced action, and before I noticed, the credits were rolling.

Flight of the Living Dead doesn't feel like a horror film to me at all. I would go so far to say it never intended to be one. To me, this is a no holds barred action movie. You get it all, lots of shoot outs, cheesy hero lines, and a cheese ball ending to cap it all off. If this sounds like your thing, then give it a shot. If you can get pass the possibility this isn't pure horror, instead, it's just another mindless action movie. Then you just might enjoy it for what it is. The movie has an 89 minute run time.

Pros:
-Some gory moments, non stop zombie mayhem but...

Cons
-:...takes too long to get there, annoying CGI, not scary

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woopak_the_thrill October 26, 2012

zombie grandma!!

Madpenguin November 04, 2012

That shit was crazy.

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FM_ALEX October 26, 2012

Oh yeah man i really liked htis one, and now that you mention it it does play like an action flick. Also I love your title.

Madpenguin November 04, 2012

Thanks for that. I actually had put this off for awhile, then I gave it a shot a long while ago because I was craving some zombie action. I enjoyed this more than I thought. The movie knew what it wanted to be and stuck to it.

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review by woopak_the_thrill. February 13, 2009

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Funny--Crazy--Insane! Grandma Zombies Rule the Skies!!

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