The Walking Deceased (2015)

"The Walking Deceased" (aka "Walking with the Dead") is much similar to the "Scary Movie" franchise, being a spoof on just about everything in the zombie genre. Most dominant are the parodies on "The Walking Dead", "Zombieland" and "Warm Bodies" - the biggest commercial successes of the zombie genre.Story-wise then "The Walking Deceased" was nothing out of the ordinary. And it wasn't the story that kept the movie afloat.For a low budget spoof, the heart was in the right place. There were some good moments here and there, but the grand picture was just lacking that one key ingredient. Some of the scenes were actually nicely constructed and really laying it on thick in terms of the characters being spoofed.The acting was adequate for a movie of this caliber. This isn't academy award winning material, mind you.I will say that for a spoof then the laughs were few and far apart. Which was a shame, because a spoof comedy like this had potential.A good attempt at making a dent on the pop cultural success that the zombie genre has become. The heart and soul was in the right place, it just needed some tuning and finesse. It is worth a watch if you have been a lifelong zombie aficionado, like me, but just don't get your hopes up too high.

This isn't going to be some long review so hold your horses and don't expect something fancy. After watching the movie, I thought the idea of doing something like this could be a great way to get money, be famous and bring all the different zombie loving fandoms together. But god dammit Scott Dow you screwed the whole thing up. It wasn't even that funny at all. The actors were horrible and the only good thing was probably Romeo and the zombies. This movie has about the humour of my grandfather who barely knows how to even use his Ipad so next time you try to direct a film and want to call it funny and good, learn what social media is on about and learn how to write a good plot and movie. Once again, as I stated, the actors were horrible except Troy Ogletree and MAYBE Andrew Pozza. Next time get actors that don't look like they're reading the script the first time. Danielle Garcia was good when it came to facial expressions but since she didn't say anything, I can't judge her there.

Not very funny spoof of Walking Dead. Some lines were funny, but it relied too much on very contemporary pop-buzz-terminology. I guess they didn't consider that many who watch a serious show like the Walking Dead are probably not interested in Snookie or Kardashian or all the inside jokes on TMZ. So it was overkill.But the funniest line was when our hero was all upset that Twitter, Facebook, Instagram went down during the Zombie Apocalypse, but then asked about Linked In, and was told, "No, Linked In's still up."But after that, pretty boring. I shut it off after 20 minutes. The guy who was to play Daryl didn't even look like him at all, or talk like him. They should have hired actors who could really spoof the originals.

I'm usually not a fan of spoofs as they're mainly very bad forced jokes. It's lowbrow comedy, but done very well. I throughly enjoyed the film from start to finish and was hoping to find similar releases from the production company.If you're a fan of The Walking Dead, Warm Bodies, and Zombieland, you'll like this film. The actors/characters were great. In my opinion, the script was brilliantly written. I'm usually difficult to get a laugh out of, but this humor was right up my alley.Advice: pop open a few beers w/ the boys and watch this movie for some good laughs. Ladies may not appreciate the comedy as much; it's more along of the lines of "stupid guy funny".