Flight Of The Living Dead [2006]

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First Class Zombie Movie

Fun mayhem

PANTS Less than 1 star

Good Fun High Camp Horror

Flight Of The Living Dead [2006]
Director: Scott Thomson
Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
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Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000UD5LWE
Release Date: 2007-10-22

Customer Reviews:

First Class Zombie Movie.......2008-01-06

I loved this film! It has everything you could want from a Zombie flick: excessive gore, a stupid but well executed plot and plenty of humour. As a bonus the acting is pretty darn good as well. The film makers didn't try to take this seriously and nor should the viewer. I watched this with a group of friends(including my fiancee who would normally refuse to watch this type of film) and they all loved it too.

Fun mayhem.......2007-11-12

Well it would be easy to expect this to be a prime turkey but it turned out to be more fun that I was expecting. Central plot...well the title says it all. Now it all depends on the skill of the director in what turned out here, as rampaging zombies on the confines of a passenger aircraft sounds like horror movie gold on paper, and it would take a serious dope to mess up what is essentially a very simple idea for a fun horror film. And for the most part things flow along pretty well...but you will have to swallow some of the biggest doses of unreality ever seen in a horror movie. Worst of all is the cliche ridden array of passengers we have here. Squabbling teen couples, a policeman and his prisoner charge, cuffed together, scientists who try to hush up the deadly zombie outbreak because it was their fault that it was on board, four or five sexy stewardesses with mini skirts and stilettoes, celebrity golf pro and pouty wife, even the obligatory nun ( I kid you not). Although there are no whiney kids on board, thank god.
Anyway, as I said the film plays with it's core material very well, and for a while the outbreak of zombie mayhem is quite high octane excitement, as slobbering ghouls run up and down the aisles, biting screaming passengers and generally flinging bodies all over the place. Inevitably, it proves impossible to maintain such a level of excitement for very long, I mean it's just the one normal sized plane (not some impossibly large movie location type plane that stretches on forever I'm pleased to report) so things have to go somewhere pretty swiftly. There's only so long you can avoid a mob of zombies on a plane in midflight! Some of the best parts of the outbreak involves the zombies taking over the luggage hold, and they break through the ceiling to the passenger cabin above, and start pulling unlucky victims to their deaths through a large hole in the floor! This lower cargo area, with it's sickly yellow lighting and cramped space, could have(in the hands of a more skilled director) been transformed into a real vison of hell as the zombies fill it with writhing victims and severed body parts, but as things stand, its only shown in a few throwaway shots of dead bodies or people being gnawed to death. I'd like to have seen this territory battle developed further in the film, but it wasn't expanded on much.
Anyway, the effects aren't bad although there's way too much CGI, and when this is over-relied on, it shows. One very early shot has a female zombie being shot, and in an effect that redefines the term "lame", the impact effects of the bullets hitting her are CGI'd onto her blouse, which looks dreadful. Luckily things don't remain this bad, but don't expect any spectacular gore efects. Apart from blood being constantly sprayed about, there are very few gore set pieces, and the zombie make-up consists only of yellow contact lenses and a rather pink veiny face, so the infected hordes are more like the crazies from "28 Days Later" than traditional zombies. A few good scenes stand out, like and early attack through the wall of a toilet cubicle which is when the main infection really starts to spread, and a cool zombie death involving an umbrella (shades of Peter Jackson's "Braindead" leap to mind here). But a lot of this fun sinks under the weight of so many mind-boggling plot impossibilities...guns are all over the place and zombies are shot with wild abandon, with no rupturing of a single window or external wall. Also, people STILL seem to use the old standby of NEVER shooting a zombie in the face...it must be because gunshot wounds to the body are much cheaper to shoot as special effects. Not good enough! Plus, in a scene that had my friends and I gasping in disbelief, one of the more heroic characters knocks up a makeshift BOMB (how???) and throws it (ignited) into the luggage hold. "It should act as a distraction" he explains. Yeah, in the same way that the entire plane ripping in two might do! But lo and behold, a few zombies are blown to bits but not a single panel on the walls of the plane gets damaged. There are plenty more things like this going on, and someone actually has the cheek to use the immortal line: "Does anybody know how to fly a plane?" With a straight face!

Well if you can put up with all the crazy nonsense of the plot, the film is actually quite a fun rollercoaster ride. The acting's not bad, although no-one has anything approaching a developed personailty, and the plane makes for a good, claustrophobic setting even if it is suspicously under-filled, and has those only-in-the-movies man-sized ventilation shafts that you can crawl through and pop out in all sorts of places. So forgive all that, and you could have a good laugh watching this.

PANTS Less than 1 star.......2007-11-05

I am a fan of cheap looking zombie films and sometimes the rubbisher they aaare the better but oh my life this film is a huge disapointment. I have been waiting for this film since it was announced then it was delayed servral times finally it came out i rushed home to watch it and i want my money back. If your thinking of getting this with the £11 it costs you can get to clasics like Day of the Dead and Night of the living Dead. You deserve a better zombie movie than this.

Good Fun High Camp Horror.......2007-10-25

Imagine if you will a cross betweem all those Airport films of the 70's and cross it with Return of the Living Dead and you have Flight of The Living Dead.
The story concerns a bunch of people (Passengers, Pilots and Stewardess's) trapped onboard a plane gradually filling up with the recently deceased. The story if full of all your disaster movie regulars (Stewardess in love with pilot, older pilots last flight before retirment,a young couple with marital problems, policeman with convict, even a nun!)
I prefer this to Snakes on a Plane even though I love that movie too. Well worth watching with friends for a good light fun horror film.

Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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The most fun I've had with zombies since Shaun of the Dead
turbuence meets dawn of the dead!

Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Starring: Erick Avari , Dale Midkiff , Kevin J. O'Connor , Richard Tyson , and Raymond Barry
Director: Scott Thomas
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000TUDIL4
Release Date: 2007-10-02

Customer Reviews:

The most fun I've had with zombies since Shaun of the Dead.......2007-11-17

I absolutely freakin' love this movie. My best zombie-loving bud only gave it two stars, but it's five stars all the way from this reviewer. It has pretty much everything I want in a zombie film: zombies running absolutely amuck (no wasting time staggering around waiting for a victim to come their way), plenty of blood and gore, great special effects, some well-timed hilarity, and an assortment of hot chicks. Put a check by each line in the zombie flight summary of Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane (also known as Plane Dead). And don't go chanting Snakes on a Plane rip-off at me because the concept of this film reportedly predated that of Snakes on a Plane and, more importantly, this is a much more entertaining movie. Let's face it; if there's anything harder to deal with than snakes on a plane, it would have to be a quickly multiplying number of vicious zombies on a plane. Even first-class ticket holders can forget all the niceties when carnivorous cadavers come to play.

Those wacky scientists have been at it again, putting together some kind of malaria virus (which is particularly impressive given the fact that malaria is not caused by a virus at all) that, well, basically kills you in a couple of heartbeats and then brings you back to life. It's just the thing for the military, guaranteeing that you can't keep a Marine down, not even a dead one - and it's also useful for infecting and killing the enemy, as well. It seems that the government isn't too high on the idea, though, and that's why the project's two scientists and project manager leaving the country on board a 747 en route to Paris - along with the freeze dried wife of one scientist and an armed guard to watch over the precious cargo down in the hold. Unfortunately, the flight plan takes the plane through a gargantuan thunder storm. Things shift around, containment is breached, and the special cargo wakes up and goes all zombified.

Obviously, Boeing hasn't built the cargo hold that can keep a flesh-craving zombie from breaking out, and it doesn't help that the scientists and the co-pilot go down there to look around. Thanks to their fresh bodies, the virus spreads quickly, pretty much ruining the flight for all of the stereotypical characters. Mile High Club activities are curtailed, to say the least, when zombies start bursting through the walls and floors. Not even a praying nun is safe as the zombie rampage spreads like wildfire - I'm telling you, these zombies don't mess around, and everyone they kill quickly joins the murderous zombie minions. For the viewer, bloody zombie hilarity quickly ensues, most of it courtesy of the film's least likely of heroes.

There's blood aplenty, but the hardcore zombie fan might be disappointed by the lack of viscera amidst all of the feeding scenes - this isn't Dawn of the Dead, by any means. Still, I have to say that the special effects were, for the most part, exceedingly well done - certainly far more impressive than you'll find in the lion's share of straight-to-DVD releases. That being said, this movie won't provide many scares to anyone over the age of 12, despite the fact that the zombies scream a lot when they aren't gorging their bloody faces and bodies with fresh human meat, and the only suspense I felt involved my concern that the hottest babes would be killed off too soon for my liking -- but that doesn't stop Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane from zooming up the charts of my favorite zombie films. I for one was immensely entertained throughout, and there's one hilarious moment toward the end that I will remember fondly for the rest of my days. It's a shame this movie was denied a theatrical release, as I think it would have certainly broken even at the box office. If you ask me, this is easily the most entertaining zombie film since Shaun of the Dead.

turbuence meets dawn of the dead! .......2007-10-29

i was dubious of this because ive ended up buying so many trash zombie movies ,pale imitations of the classics but well done to entertainment in video,this is a fast-paced horror movie! synopsis:in the cargo hold of a
passenger flight to paris a dangerous virus is being transported ,during
a storm the cargo in the shape of a woman escapes ,she bites a guard & all
hell breaks loose as the passengers ,crew turn into rabid zombies! the captain gets his throat torn out then we have the plane on auto-pilot!
theres never a dull moment ,with a storm,a prisoner escaping & zombies everywhere & fighter jets preparing to shoot the plane down ,its all there,
there has been so many "zombie" movies but this is a fresh change on a worn out story ! make your coffee,tea & biscuits before settling down to
watch,you wont want to leave the room,honest!

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