Critic Reviews

What really grabs your attention about Undead, however, are the effects. For a movie budgeted under $1 million, the Spierigs have done an amazing job putting together believable visuals.

This gory, ghoulishly funny horror goof is shameless fun in its own right.

Precociously inventive horror pic that combines brain-eating zombies with outer space aliens.

There's nothing under the goofball gags and gushing gore, and its welcome is worn out well before it's over.

A campy, low-budget Romero homage that's badly in need of editing.

It gets duller and duller as it turns out to have used up all its amusing tricks in that first 30 minutes.

Initially artsy, then campy, then tense, it would have worked better if writer-directors Peter and Michael Spierig had kept everything serious and let the inherent absurdism of zombie attacks speak for itself without additional ironic comment.

Flesh-eating fish notwithstanding, Peter and Michael Spierig's low-budget schlock-horror parody brings precious little new to the undead genre.

In the end, the film is a stale, derivative mess that borrows heavily from every zombie and alien movie worthy of imitation, to only ho-hum effect.

The over-the-top tone gets stale awfully quickly -- especially once it becomes clear that it's all wacky style over any real attempt at substance.