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Storyline
In Los Angeles, a meteor bringing some sort of disease falls on a group of homeless and turns them into flesh eater zombies. Meanwhile, two rival gangs are dealing drugs with an intermediary in an old warehouse without knowing that there is a stake out of the LAPD of the whole operation. When the policemen are ready to arrest the criminals, they are attacked by the hunger zombies in the beginning of a nightmarish night. Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Plot Synopsis
Taglines:
Terror takes to the streets.
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Motion Picture Rating
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Rated R for strong violence and gore, pervasive language and brief drug use
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Trivia
Title changed to Gangs of the Dead for DVD release.
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Goofs
In the scene where the news anchor and his girlfriend go to the liquor store, they park in front with no cars around. Two guys are leaving the liquor store and bump into the news anchor as he enters the liquor store. When the 2 guys walk to their car, it appears parked right next to the news anchor's car.
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Quotes
Mac T:
You think this is the first time I've had a gun in my face?
Santos:
No, but it's the first time someone's used the trigger!
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Connections
References
Scarface (1983)
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In a nut shell, Latino and black gangsters hole-up in a warehouse while homeless Zombies rage outside.
Too many gangster clichés, not enough Zombie action. Long, loud and repetitive periods of testosterone posturing coulda been spiced up by a few unique characters. I won't spoil it, but there was one potentially cool twist that came too late and fell flat when it was finally revealed.
This movie could have said something about Los Angeles, said something about about racism, or at least delivered some scares. It missed on all 3 counts. It's too bad, because a few of the performers brought more to their characters than the script gave them to work with.