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Release Date:
4 September 2003 (Australia)
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A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out. full summary | add synopsis
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3 wins
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(62 articles)
trailer break: ‘Daybreakers’
(From FlickFilosopher. 2 December 2009, 8:37 AM, PST)
Daybreakers TV Trailer Is Out For Blood
(From Cinema Blend. 27 November 2009, 11:45 AM, PST)
(From FlickFilosopher. 2 December 2009, 8:37 AM, PST)
Daybreakers TV Trailer Is Out For Blood
(From Cinema Blend. 27 November 2009, 11:45 AM, PST)
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The greatest Aussie horror film since Zombie Brigade!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Felicity Mason | ... | Rene | |
| Mungo McKay | ... | Marion | |
| Rob Jenkins | ... | Wayne | |
| Lisa Cunningham | ... | Sallyanne | |
| Dirk Hunter | ... | Harrison | |
| Emma Randall | ... | Molly | |
| Steve Grieg | ... | Agent | |
| Noel Sheridan | ... | Chip | |
| Gaynor Wensley | ... | Aggie | |
| Eleanor Stillman | ... | Ruth | |
| Robyn Moore | ... | Officer in Locker Room | |
| Robert Jozinovic | ... | Man in Office | |
| Peter Mensforth | ... | Cricket Batsman | |
| Jacob Andriolo | ... | Yougn Cricketer | |
| Michele Steel | ... | Screamer |
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Rated R for strong violence and gore, and for language.
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Australia:104 min | Canada:100 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:97 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:18A (Ontario) |
Canada:R (Manitoba) |
South Korea:18 |
Netherlands:16 |
Australia:MA |
Germany:16 |
Hong Kong:III |
Singapore:M18 (re-rating) |
Singapore:NC-16 (original rating) |
USA:R |
UK:15
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The backup battery supply that powers the garage door during the escape in the van has the name "Spierigfilm" written on it - the name of the film's production company.
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Continuity: Officer Harrigan fires 14 rounds out of a six-shot revolver.
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References Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
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Little Green Men
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Where did the infection come from?Is this movie a parody of Day of the Dead? Evil Dead? 28 Days Later? Or just Zombie movies in general??
What will the Spierig brothers do next? Will there be an "Undead" sequel?
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Something is seriously wrong in the quiet Queensland hamlet of Berkeley: rocks are falling from the sky, carrying a virus that turns local residents into flesh-crazed fiends. And that's just the start of the powerhouse slam-bang debut from Brisbane twin filmmakers Peter and Michael Spierig, an audacious triumph of invention and imagination over budget and genre constraints. Even more remarkable is the fact that two local Brisbane boys have achieved the impossible and created an original Aussie zombie epic that is set to lay waste to the international horror community.
Ever the post-80s horror boom cultural vultures, Spierigs plunder shamelessly from the expected sources - the grey apocalypticism of George A Romero's Dead trilogy, the outrageous gore setpieces of Peter Jackson's blood-soaked Bad Taste and Braindead, the camera histronics of early Sam Raimi and Coen Brothers efforts - while breathing new life into the long-exhausted zombie cycle and making a film that is entirely their own. Undead marries a wholly unpredictable narrative, jawdropping effects (graphic enough for the most jaded of gorehounds) and a frighteningly assured grasp of cinematic language. As expected there's buckets of gallows humour, but the film never trades cheap laughs for its primary purpose: delivering good old-fashioned blood-curdling shocks.
If Aussie horror is a dead duck, Undead blows it out of the water.