The Walking Deceased: A Zombie Film Review

The Walking Deceased is a parody of all things zombie related. It was initially released in North America in theatres on March 20th but made its way to DVD today from Arc Entertainment. I got my hands on a copy of this film and checked it out. Here are my impressions of The Walking Deceased:

While this movie is a parody of something that isn’t believable in the first place, it’s interesting to see that it took the approach of trying to remake some of the most popular characters and give them odd characteristics. For example, Lori Grimes is a stripper, and her son Chris Grimes (which Rick keeps calling Carl) is a hardened entrepreneur that seems to have almost no emotion toward anything.

On the other hand, some of the other characters that I would have loved to have bigger roles were left in the cold. Specifically, Shaun and Ed from Shaun of the Dead were one-dimensional and not used to their potential. However, it was cool that they were involved, even if it was just for a short time.

With characters from all kinds of zombie movies and shows, you’d think things would get all jumbled up and hard to follow, but that was never really the case. Instead, it was easy to follow the cliques from shows like The Walking Dead, Zombieland, Warm Bodies, and even Resident Evil. Because of that, the interactions between the groups were quite entertaining.

But one of the things that I really enjoyed was something that most fans of The Walking Dead likely won’t. Their mocking of Daryl Dixon with a character named Darnell was really funny. He has a toy crossbow that pretty much just bounces off all the zombies and the other characters laugh at him. I found those parts of The Walking Deceased to be very fun.

But many of the jokes fell just as flat as a zombie that just got hit with a pillow (you’ll get it once you see the movie). The entire scene at the strip club felt completely unnecessary and other parts like the one involving excessive drug use also seemed to drag on far too long. There are love triangles and characters with attitudes, but they all pretty accurately represent characters on those shows that they are mocking.

But, in the end, the ineptitude of Sheriff Lincoln proved to be enough to help carry this movie to be worth a rental. Sure, it would likely be better if you could catch this flick on a movie channel or maybe see it with some friends to help lower the cost, but I still feel it’s worth a watch if you’re a fan of the zombie genre.

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