Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak….

Flight of the Living Dead is a relatively new zombie flick (2007) that sort of incorporates Snakes on a Plane thrills with a sort of Dawn of the Dead feel. It sounds kind of loser-y I know, but you might be surprised to find yourself liking this one.

Cause & Effect

Your typical “let’s reanimate the dead so they can fight our wars” scientific mentality comes in to play right out of the gate. This scientist however has not gotten the o.k. from the powers that be, so he has enlisted a fellow scientist to play guinea pig for his genetically engineered virus.

Upon trying to “smuggle” said guinea pig in the cargo hold of a flight from LA to Paris, the ideal plan goes horribly awry (never saw THAT one coming) when the plane hits not one, but two severe thunderstorms. The result of course, is your required electronics malfunction that not only messes up the radio system so the plane cannot make ground contact should they need to (hint hint) but it also means that the sealed container holding the scientist/guinea pig becomes conveniently unsealed setting her free.

A guard set in place to keep an eye on things gets freaked out by the scientist crawling out of her box, so even though she is still human at this point, he shoots and kills her causing the virus to take full effect (good thing he hung around long enough to feed the now reanimated zombie’s growing hunger!)

So enter a couple more scientists (one of which is the zombie chicks clueless hubby) who decide to check out the cargo hold to make sure nothing has gone wrong due to all the turbulence. Hhhmmm… 2 fresh scientists…. 2 new zombies with appetites…. yup. That makes 4 zombies.

And they are all pretty damned hungry!

Result

It doesn’t take long for the 4 zombies to spread the joy and soon there is a mass attack on board the flight. One by one innocent passengers are brutally attacked and eaten. This also means that one by one the human count drops, and the zombie count rises.

Luckily a few good men still stand strong against the attack, as they try to make ground contact in a desperate attempt to stop the military from blasting them out of the sky. Surely the survival of 3 or 4 humans is worth the risk of say, 100 zombies loose in an airport…… right???

Recommendation

I don’t think this movie is gonna go down in the annals of history as one of the great cult classics (think The Living Dead.) There are no great one liners; the cast is weak; the zombies bursting out of the airplane floor and bathroom walls is a bit more than ridiculous, but I must confess, the blood shed is pretty damned good. I found that it actually amused me even though I caught myself rolling my eyes alot.

I think that probably goes to show that if it has zombies in it, chances are I will watch it and be glad that I did. But then again, I like these Z type B wannabes. They make me laugh.

So what do you think? Did you see it?

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