The Defiled (2010) User Reviews

Bit of a let down.

[Greenzombidog · 3/10 · 20 April 2011]

I love B movies and I love zombie films, I also love some art-house movies. So this should have been right up my street, but some how I just couldn't get into it.

The premise of a zombie trying to keep it's zombie baby alive in a post apocalyptic world sounded great and then Iheard that it was an almost silent movie, which I thought sounded very interesting.

The first stumbling block for me came when You meet the family of zombies at the start. One of them walks on all fours like a dog. It just seemed a bit silly. Later when The zombie meets up with the human woman who becomes an almost surrogate mother to his baby another silly thing happens. To sate the zombies craving for flesh the woman gives him a piece of chocolate. The movie is just full of these type of instances. I'm all for playing with the boundaries of zombie mythology but chocolate versus flesh, No. The acting is also quite weak. The human woman has one face she pulls constantly and by the end of the movie I was sick of seeing it. The zombie just grunts and groans which also started to get a bit ridiculous. The effects are what you'd expect from This grade of movie. Some dodgy CG birds and buildings on fire. The movies filmed in black and white sometimes with a blue hue sometimes a bit green. I think this worked in it's favour as it made it difficult to see how poor the make up was.

It's one of those movies that now I've seen it I don't need to see it again.

WHO CARES FOR BABY ZOMBIES?

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 14 December 2018]

"Defiled" is a black and white zombie film. The main character grunts like he is Tim Allen. The low budget aspect doesn't allow for zombie teeth that rip flesh. The action takes place in a woods near a city. There is some sort of biohazard accident which allows people to walk around with a clear plastic respirator masked attached to a pool hose going to an open conduit connector worn on the belt. Okay, it's low budget...no time for cardboard and crayons.

The plot is about zombie survival and group interactions.

Watch instead "Warm Bodies." Seen It? Watch it again instead of watching this one.

Available in a zombie 4-pack, "Zombie Horror Fright Fest" if you must have it.

Mindless zombies in black and white

[Leofwine_draca · 1/10 · 10 July 2017]

THE DEFILED is another mindless zombie indie movie shot out in the woods in some godforsaken location. This one's in black and white and has some low rent artistic sensibilities. The plot is about a bunch of zombies running riot with a twist that our hero is a zombie too. Sadly, the whole thing is heavily influenced by the look of the zombies in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD so it feels like a cheap rip-off without a voice itself. It's also very boring.

Zombie POV

[NoDakTatum · 10/10 · 10 November 2023]

Since the 1930's, and perhaps before, the movie going public has been treated to their fair share of zombie flicks. Zombies that stumble, zombies that run, and zombie comedies have all come down the pike. Some are classics, many are not. This film takes another stab at the zombie genre, and turns it on its head. A nameless zombie (Brian Shaw) seems to be enjoying his zombie existence. His zombie mate is pregnant, he has what seem to be two teenage zombie children, and the quartet live in the woods, eating whatever human flesh they happen to stumble upon. The dad zombie brings home a suicide's body, and partakes of some booze while the family feasts on the body. The other three family members become violently ill and die, obviously not seeing the radioactive warning labels that surrounded the dead person. Before expiring, zombie mom gives birth to the zombie baby. The man must now care for the newborn, killing small animals and chewing its flesh to feed his offspring. The two are on the run from a mysterious army who are killing the zombie creatures. The man sees a human woman (Kathleen Lawlor) and saves her from another set of zombies. The woman becomes a surrogate mother, and now the three begin traveling together. They don't seem to have a destination, except the woman tries not to be eaten, and the man tries not to eat her. As with most zombie films, things don't end well for all involved.

Writer/director Julian Grant has done a fantastic job with this. He also provided the shimmering black and white, or maybe more blue and white, photography, and the brisk editing. The film is devoid of spoken dialogue, except for the guttural zombie grunts, and some background voices of the zombie killers here and there. The woman cannot communicate with the zombie man, so what's the point of talking? David Findlay lays down a professional musical score that adds to the film. The makeup effects are excellent, including the zombie infant- which thankfully in no way resembles the fakery of "It's Alive!" or "The Unborn." The cast all give great performances in obviously difficult roles. Shaw is covered in gross makeup for the entire film, and Lawlor doesn't look like she just strolled out of a salon, either, but both use their facial expressions to the fullest without resulting to broad theatricality. The film was shot in the Chicago, Illinois/Gary, Indiana/LaPorte, Indiana area, and the locations are perfect. I love old abandoned buildings and ghost towns, and Grant has found some excellent places to set his story. The screenplay itself keeps a lot under its hat, never out-and-out explaining anything, including the reason half of society turned into zombies. We do not get any back story on the two main characters, and I liked that. Grant has them living and surviving right now, no time for embarrassing fireside English lessons and "what I did before the apocalypse" speeches. "The Defiled" will satisfy gorehounds as well as sci-fi and horror fans, and it definitely compares favorably to the work of George A. Romero and the "28...Later" films. Seek it out.

OK,You have never experienced this animal of a film...

[guestar57 · 7/10 · 9 February 2011]

Starring: Brian Shaw,Kathleen Lawlor.

Cannot believe this movie exists,Thank You Chemicalburn films.

Enjoyed the whole 100 minute ride ,er walk,err journey of a Male Zombie,His Human-ish baby and a female mortal.

No dialogue as you're used to,But totally communicated emotions and progression of story. Did you know Bill Hinzman, Sometimes recreates his character from original Night Of The Living Dead and Flesheater.

Well he would be proud of the appearance of zombie lead,Its eerie and yet much more. Cannot recommend enough, Get it at Amazon, today.

The baby puppet ? is almost a real enough impression to have some acting accolades itself.

Surealism hits hard, NOT a literal zombie or cannibal movie

[Conejeto · 30 June 2015]

The first sequence includes a teenage boy acting like a pet to the dad and somehow this is true in many normal families where he protects his dad yet is jealous of him. The daughter blames the dad and the wife makes babies for the dad thus keeping ahead of any mistresses he may encounter. Another sequence parallels reality when Dad bleeds his own blood for the welfare of his newborn child's survival after mom dies at dad's own poor judgment. I skipped the brother sister imitating mom and dad having sex, it may not happen frequently but perhaps the siblings having seen it with their parents first could lead down that dangerous road? I saw a lesson here being taught. Next; the step mother of the infant competing with the biological Dad for control of the infant child; another all too common family problem in modern society perhaps could be extrapolated here? The destroyed church with the crucified man in Jesus' place a parable to evils of war/science out of control? Turning away woman and child less than perfect to preserve the superior race? The natural scenes to drink water in stark contrast to the rotting bodies upstream and just out of view of our hero/victim characters ultimately making them more sick perhaps paralleling science technology vs. nature and Earth. I guess once I caught the first sequence, I began to see so many small yet powerful social statements. It cleverly included biochemical as well as nuclear destruction by the asses that be. The producer would be stoned to death for saying outright such observations on society's flaws/hypocrisies but I urge anyone to view this several times as I did and say this is simply a cannibal zombie movie without dialogue. The fact that it needs no subtitles anywhere in the world makes this film even more a work of genius to me. "The Defiled" left me with a sadness I can't describe. I highly recommend this film to the thinkers out there.