Dead Heist (2007)

Four friends plan the perfect small town bank heist, but choose the wrong night. Their plans go horribly wrong when vampiric zombies attack the town and trap them in the bank. Can they escape with the money and their lives?

Director:

Bo Webb

Writers:

Anghus Houvouras (script), Anghus Houvouras (story)

Stars:

Big Daddy Kane, Brandon Xavier, D.J. Naylor

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Big Daddy Kane	...	Hunter
Brandon Xavier	...	Ski (as Brandon Hardin)
D.J. Naylor	...	Ackson
Dominic L. Santana	...	Malcolm
E-40	...	Hustle
Traci Dinwiddie	...	Kate (as T-Love)
Michael Braxton	...	Trey
Chris Bailey	...	Bone
Bone Crusher	...	Himself (as Bonecrusher)
Zach Hanner	...	Rich
Jon Stafford	...	Sheriff
Bill Ladd	...	Deputy Miller
Cullen Moss	...	Deputy ...
Charlie Lucas	...	Uncle Authur
Joi Heggins	...	Bonecrusher's Girl

Storyline

In Miami, four small time thieves leaded by Ski decide to rob a bank in the small town of Maysville. The lord Hustle demands a 10% commission and sends his experienced bodyguard Ackson to help the gang in their plan. He goes to the target bank to check the security system, but Ski decides to anticipate the plan for that afternoon. They succeed in the heist, but Deputy Kate activates the alarm and one of the criminals shoots Deputy Duff. When the bank is under siege of the police force, they are attacked by weird creatures. The former government agent Hunter comes to the bank and tells that the vampire zombies had been contaminated by an experimental virus developed by the government through the subjects that have escaped from the laboratory, attacking people in the New Moon to feed themselves. The group joins force to survive to the massive attack of the creatures.

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Plot Keywords:

bank | heist | trap | chase | undead | 

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Taglines:

The perfect heist...the wrong night.

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Genres:

Action | Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

MySpace page

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 August 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Bank of the Dead

Filming Locations:

Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$250,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Swirl Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

References Hawaii Five-O (1968)

User Reviews

I have no idea whether or not the fact that this reminded me of the "Attack of the Street Pimps" bit from "Hollywood Shuffle" is a good thing or a bad thing.

A bank heist goes horribly bad when (what else) the dead come in for food.

As far as recent Urban Zombie movies go, "Dead Heist" is better than "Zombiez," but worse than "Hood of the Living Dead" and "Gangs of the Dead." That's not saying much, especially when you consider the fact that "Hood" and "Gangs" are bad movies too.

The dead here are cut from the same cloth as the speedy zombies from the "Dawn of The Dead" remake and the infected from "28 Days Later" and it's sequel, only generic instead of interesting or frightening. The gore is nothing new, though the fact that the dead can only be killed by being shot in the heart (and you're to blame...) is a poor attempt at trying something different.

As far as acting goes, Big Daddy Kane does the best job. He's not good, mind you, but he does the best job. Amusingly, while Bone Crusher and E-40 are advertised as staring in it, yet they aren't in the movie for very long-Bone Crusher appears in the beginning as a patron in a strip club so tame it could have passed for MTV's "The Grind", then disappears. Meanwhile, E-40 has less than 5 minutes of screen time as a porn director, and gives a "alright, where's my paycheck already" level performance. The rest of the cast ranges from a dead ringer for Vin Diesel to the white female cop, a white businessman thinking of joining the Nation of Islam (ha ha), and plenty of stereotypical gang banger characters.

While not the worst recent Urban horror movie, there's still nothing worth recommending here. I have no idea whether or not the fact that this reminded me of the "Attack of the Street Pimps" bit from "Hollywood Shuffle" is a good thing or a bad thing. It's probably a bad thing.