Dead Country (2008)

A space ship explodes in the night sky above a small rural town showering the population with a deadly alien virus, which then spreads a zombie plague upon the town folk.

Director:

Andrew Merkelbach

Writers:

Anthony Davis, Clifford Hoeft,

Stars:

Christopher Shen, William Butler, Janet Tracy Keijser

Cast

Credited cast:
Christopher Shen	...	Shen Lee
William Butler	...	Narrator (voice)
Janet Tracy Keijser	...	Janis
Lloyd Kaufman	...	Lloyd (voice)
Jacqueline Lovell	...	Teri
William Malone	...	William
Ashlie Rhey	...	Cassie
Christopher Showerman	...	D.J. Seinfeld (voice)
Alex Vincent	...	Alex
Lisa Wilcox	...	Lisa
Andrew Merkelbach	...	Orion
Zoran Babic	...	Les
Mandy Kane	...	Kane
Ted V. Mikels	...	Minister for Defence Ted Carradine
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rick Bayne	...	Slaughter Claus Zombie

Storyline

When a space ship containing hazardous material explodes over a small rural town, a deadly virus is unleashed upon the population, turning them in to zombies. Only the alien being responsible for the terrible accident and a small group of survivors can stop the epidemic from spreading, but first they have to survive the experience.

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Plot Keywords:

zombie | australia | victoria | undead | exploitation | 

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Taglines:

The Dead Will Rise...Are You Ready For It?

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Genres:

Horror

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Details

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

2008 (Australia)

Filming Locations:

Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Box Office

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Merkelbach Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

75 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film is considered an Ozploitation picture, an Australian exploitation movie.

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Connections

Followed by Deader Country (2009)

User Reviews

Not suitable for even the most die hard zombie aficionado

No Budget. No Plot. No gore. No suspense. No Comedy. No point.

This 'movie' is really nothing more than a 75 minute collection of the directors friends appearing on camera for no other reason than to have their name attached to a movie.

I watch many zombie movies, most of which have a budget of a high school party weekend (at best) and while those are bad.. this is worse.

There is no plot at all. The movie basically is a collection of scenes of actors/actresses that simply are thrown into the movie for no purpose other then to have a scene in the movie.

Basically take random scenes from random (extremely)low budget zombie flicks put them together and you have this movie.

If there is anything that can be said to be tolerable with this 'movie' it is that the director tried to keep it interesting with the occasional breast show or otherwise scantily clad woman scene. But it isn't even close to worth it.

If you are contemplating watching this, take a look at my watched movie list - http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=37512911 - and you will see 130+ zombie movies and this one is possibly the very worst of all the ones I've seen.

Save yourself the 75 minutes... seriously.