Dead Meat (2004)

An infection spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, which causes the dead to rise and feed on the living.

Director:

Conor McMahon

Writer:

Conor McMahon

Stars:

Marian Araujo, David Muyllaert, Eoin Whelan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Marian Araujo	...	Helena (as Marián Araújo)
David Muyllaert	...	Desmond
Eoin Whelan	...	Cathal Cheunt
David Ryan	...	Martin
Amy Redmond	...	Francie
Kathryn Toolan	...	Lisa
Ned Dennehy	...	Road Zombie
John O'Connor	...	Farmer
Ivan McCullough	...	Abbey Zombie
Anthony Litton	...	Abbey Zombie
Roy Gleasure	...	Abbey Zombie
Daniel Katz	...	Bio Team (as Danny Katz)
Paul Markey	...	Bio Team
Kurt Lang	...	Bio Team
Nicholas Ward	...	Bio Team (as Nicky Ward)

Storyline

The tourist Helena (Marián Araújo) and her mate Martin (David Ryan) are traveling by car through the County of Leitrim, Ireland, when Martin hits a man. He brings the body to his car, and the corpse returns to live and bites him. Helena looks for help in a cottage and is attacked inclusive by Martin. Sooner she realizes that the place is infested of zombies. She meets the gravedigger Desmond (David Muyllaert) and they cross the countryside trying to find a safe place. They meet another couple and they become aware that the mad cow disease has infected humans transforming them in living dead.

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Plot Keywords:

cow | stabbed in the eye | blood splatter | hit with a shovel | hit by a car | 

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Taglines:

It's not what you eat, it's who you eat!

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong pervasive violence/gore, and for language

Details

Country:

Ireland

Language:

English

Release Date:

December 2004 (Ireland)

Also Known As:

Carne muerta

Filming Locations:

Leitrim, County Leitrim, Ireland

Company Credits

Production Co:

Three Way Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

First Conor McMahon Horror Movie. Second being Stitches (2012) and then From the Dark (2014).

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Goofs

Louise Gallagher and Anita Martin are each credited twice as Castle Zombies in the closing credits.

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Connections

Edited into Cent une tueries de zombies (2012)

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Soundtracks

Things That You Do
Written by Peter Foott
Music by Cormac O'Connor
Performed by Joe O'Gorman

User Reviews

One of the best low-budget zombie movies I've seen!

If you ever wanted to see a low-budget shot on video flesh-eating zombie movie that takes place in rural Ireland, Dead Meat is for you! The director moves his camera around constantly; as a result, it's shot with more style than most SOV flicks. The zombie make-up is passable. Gore FX are good and plentiful, but the idiotic comic book way the heroes kill some of the zombies knocks the film down a peg (such as the heroine throwing her high-heeled shoe into the eye of a zombie). There are some major inconsistencies in zombie mythology: The heroine bites a zombie on the ankle to get it to let her go -- why isn't she infected? Why does the zombie react to such a minor wound? Many zombies use weapons (yet none can figure out how to break into a car), and one runs away to avoid getting killed! Dead Meat alternates between taking itself too seriously and not seriously enough. This ends up being its major flaw (that and sometimes the accents are so thick you can't understand the actors). The film is jam-packed full of zombie action so you won't be bored. I'm looking forward to seeing the director's next film; he shows a lot of promise. Dead Meat is definitely worth a look for zombie and low-budget horror/gore fans, as well as anyone interested in low-budget film-making. DVD includes the director's cool short film Brain Eater, trailers and a making of.