Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)

My God! Sorry... German flick... Mein Gott! Let me preface this by stating I love zombie movies, and have been watching them since the 70's, so I've seen my share of them. Except for - of course - Warm Bodies, this is the first time I ever rooted for the zombies. By 20 minutes in, I was begging the Z's to put this film out of it's misery and pleeeeeease kill off the wholly unlikeable main character. It was purely morbid curiosity that kept me around for the end of this stinker. I did not check the spoiler alert box, so I will not give specifics, but I will say the ending left me shaking my head and asking, "Seriously? Are you kidding me?" Watch this movie only if you have two hours of your life you wouldn't rather spend, I don't know... painting the hall closet? getting a root canal?

This is so know as Siege Of The Dead (2010) is a low budget infected movie from Germany.I did not expect much from this at all but turn out to be surprising good. Michael as come to see his girlfriend in Berlin but then he finds out that people have been infected by this unknown virus. This is only 59 minutes long, just under an hour, this movie was really fast paced and some really good decent tense moment as well.The infected were really welled acted and liked the whole foaming thing from there mouth.This movie wasn't really thag gory at all, the bite moment that looked nasty but nothing other zombies/infected movies. I really liked the idea of flashes from the camera, that was nice turn for the infected, Which had fresh feel to these kinda of movies.There was a few surprising moments, that I didn't see coming at all,I really liked that scene. Great acting from the whole but I not sure what to make of the infected hugging Scenes, I am giving this movie 8 out of 10

Imagine Rear Window meets 28 Days Later, in German and only 1hr and 1minute long ... I know it sound surreal and I know it sounds like wouldn't work but it does. The most thoughtful Zombie movie I've seen. Our protagonist is everyman Michael, an everyday character you only find in European movies. The production is missing that mainstream glamor and is better for it: the actors don't look like actors with dirt rubbed in their clothes and on their faces, they look and behave like real people in extraordinary circumstances. They make stupid mistakes but they aren't in a rush to die. The story is similarly small in scope although you are aware of the bigger situation without being shown much more than broad landscapes. Beyond the realism the film explores love in a non-hokey way: new, established and broken relationships and what normal people will do for the people they love. Hollywood would screw it up so I hope it doesn't get re-made - just muscle through the subtitles and see it as it's just about perfect as it is.

I always thought that a low budget zombie movie should be a lot better than the big block busters. Maybe set in my home country of Romania, where guns are rarely allowed and even cops don't carry them much, the story would gain a lot of power and the ingenuity of the people would be brought into view.Rammbock is exactly the kind of film I was thinking about: set in Berlin, the Eastern side I guess, with extraordinarily ordinary people getting caught by the zombie epidemic in a banal building block. Complex story, a few people, authentic reactions.I am sure the makers of the movie realized that the true force of the movie is in the obvious of the lowbudgetness, and so they didn't even conform to the length standards of regular movies: it all lasts just an hour, more akin to an episode of something.Bottom line: it is hard to identify with any of the people in the film, simply because they are so ordinary and like normal persons that we refuse to. I watched the movie with English dubbing, which I hated, but I couldn't find the German version. The zombie story was not developed in any way: we don't know how it happened, why or how to stop it. In the end, the true lead character is the story. I liked the film and I would recommend it to viewers of zombie movies.