The Dead 2: India (2013)

The film centers on Nicolas (Joseph Millson) an American working in India on a wind farm. He is up on a windmill talking to his Indian chamber maid pregnant girlfriend when all hell breaks loose. The film consists of him crossing desert by car, bike, foot, and that flying thing in an attempt to reach her.Like the zombies, the characters are rather lifeless. The zombies have zombie teeth, and walk in half steps...unless a gun is fired then they swarm and move fast, like piranha who never attack until someone yells "Piranha!"The film includes the problem of western ideas vs. prearranged marriages, a theme used in 99% of Bollywood films, but failed to have a musical number.The Ford brothers attempt to take the zombie film up a notch by creating faux-drama and unnecessary metaphors as zombies are their own metaphor. If you liked the slow moving first film, I will say this one is better.Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

As a zombie plague threatens India, a man and the orphan he picks up along the way try to deal with the influx of the ravenous creatures on his plans to return to the city for his pregnant lover and escape the zombie-infested country.Overall this one wasn't all that bad and provided a lot to like here. What works the best here is the fact that there's just no rest allowed throughout here from the zombie massacre, which is really from the start here on throughout the rest of the film. With the initial encounters starting just minutes after the opening credits and basically put forth from that point onward, there's hardly any let-up here as the encounters with the swarm continually provide this one with plenty of enjoyable scenes throughout the landscape filled with zombies that provide this one with plenty of high-quality scenes. The initial attack on their fortress is quite enjoyable with the creatures creating some rather impressive moments here amongst all the panic and chaos creating a dizzying confusion that's incredibly exciting, the early scenes of him stumbling onto the truth about the plague with the various quick encounters here leaving this one with a rather impressive set of action scenes of him fighting through the hordes at the hang-gliders' office and the group swarming through the lost village in the desert as these have plenty of rather fun encounters. Even later ones in the hut with the zombie children and the large assault on the swarm with the soldiers moving into the city provide this one with plenty of action and outstanding gore effects with their being blasted in the head continuously while also offering up plenty of traditional bites and gut- munching displayed here to really give this one a lot to like. There's also a few small flaws here in the fact of this one coming off pretty much like a retread of the original on in a new country which allows for a different culture atmosphere to permeate the film as the main selling point between the two. There's not a whole lot different here that really warrants the difference in country-specific setting as done here, and that even runs into the film's other problem in this one being basically a road-movie plot line that runs throughout here. That happened in the first one, and continues here with this one based on having brief, quick encounters as the need to flee is the main survival instinct at hand so while there's a ton of action it doesn't have the grand, epic action scene rather than dozens of brief encounters to move this along since they need to keep going away from them, which also popped up in the first one. Otherwise, this one had a lot of great parts to make it enjoyable.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and for strong themes of children-in-jeopardy.

The Dead and The Dead 2 prove that even in a genre as used up as zombie movies there can still be some diamonds in the rough. The Ford Brothers have made a couple of really scary films that don't rely on camp to be entertaining. What makes these two films stand apart from all the other zombie films out there is that these zombies are ethnic, African in the first film and Indian in this sequel. And for some reason, it's pretty creepy. Although the first one is the superior film, this second one definitely has its moments.What also saves these films from drowning in the sea of zombie films is that they are really well shot on location. The Ford Brothers do a good job with suspense and sudden scares, I only wish that they would have used their creativity for something a little more original than the standard slow moving cannibalistic zombie that can only be stopped by shooting it in the head or otherwise inflicting damage on its brain. I wish they could have at least concocted their own version of a zombie, their own explanation of why the zombie apocalypse is happening, and some type of unique vulnerability that other zombies don't have. But it is what it is, standard George Romero zombies taking over Africa first and now India.The Dead 2 seems more like a remake of the first film. The plot is pretty much identical. An American engineer in a foreign land finds himself caught up in the zombie plague and must travel a long distance for one reason or another, battling zombies at every moment. The tried and true clichés are used--the car won't start right away as the zombies approach, the corpse isn't really dead and opens its eyes and lurches at the optimal moment for a scare, the protagonist must team up with an unlikely partner in order to survive--but nevertheless it's all done well, which is what counts. The end result is scary, creepy and somehow at least a bit original.I can see why the Ford Brothers are making these zombie films. They get to show off what they can do on a safe bet at the box office. I just hope they can find their way out of the genre and some day deliver something that's entirely their's instead of rehashing a story that's been done 999 times before. I really think they have it in them to some day really create an epic masterpiece of horror.

Regardless of the similitude of the plot with the first one, this time it becomes an emotional journey.I won't spoiled for the ones that haven seen it, but for those who already did ... how messed up, I mean the scene of the car next to the railroad! I saw it coming, still shock me up! Even thought our heroes Nicholas and Javed seemed not to learn from their mistakes, we keep roting for their survival, and that is what a good movie manage to convey, a real connection between the viewer and the characters on the screen,(hopefully the Ford Brothers make it big on the movie business).The cinematography is excellent, the main actors deliver, and the writing is good enough and the directing is superb. So to the ones I review badly, watch this one, you may learn something, and for the ones looking for a good zombie-movie, "The Dead 2: India" is one to be seen.