Really Surprised!

good back-story, and good acting

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The plot was an interesting and entertaining twist on zombie outbreaks. I was going to rate this 5 stars due to the low budget production and the occasionally incomprehensible Irish accents. However, I realized there was also some significant directing being done on a shoe string budget. The actors were for the most part better than average. I got the required minimum few scares. The blatant attempts for laughs were down played to a minimum, like the music. And the shots of the low budget effects were not enough to become laughable. I also liked the closing song. And who doesn't love a good cow turned meat eating predator? "What was that?" "That was a cow." "It couldn't be." "Why not?" "They're all dead." ... and then ... the bad news. Bon apetit!

Dead Meat is set Leitrim county in Ireland where Helena (Marián Araújo) & her boyfriend Martin (David Ryan) are driving through the countryside when they hit a man in the middle of the road, the man dies but doesn't stay dead for long as he comes back as a flesh-eating zombie who takes a bite out of Martin's neck. Helena seeks help in a nearby cottage but also finds zombies there as Martin dies & comes back as a zombie too. As Helena desperately searches for help she meets local farmer Desmond (David Muyllart), they both decide to team up & work together to try & escape the zombie infected countryside...This Irish production was written & directed by Conor McMahon & jumped on the bandwagon started by the likes of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Dawn of the Dead (2004), 28 Days Later... (2002) & Resident Evil (2002) all of which saw an upturn in the popularity of zombie films. Having said that Dead Meat probably owes more to the George A. Romero 'Dead' series of films, to be honest I have to say that while Dead Meat isn't the worst example of a zombie film it's hardly anything to get excited about. The script starts off like a straight Night of the Living Dead (1968) rip-off with a man & woman attacked by a zombie, the man is killed, the woman runs off for help & finds a farmhouse as the zombie menace increases & there's not that much more to it as Helena & Desmond spend the majority of the rest of the film wandering around the countryside fighting the odd zombie in order to get to an old fort which seems like an idea used by the filmmakers because of the location rather than any meaningful narrative reason. The so-called twist ending makes little sense, it's never clear why help wouldn't arrive in Leitrim for six to eight hours since Ireland really isn't that big & if there are flesh-eating zombies everywhere why would you just stop in the middle of the night, light a fire & just sit there? At under 80 minutes at least it's short & has a good pace about it but it's all rather forgettable with flat character's including one who has a horrible thick Irish accent which makes it virtually impossible to understand what he is saying.The set-pieces are dull with a few boring zombie attacks & the gore is disappointing with a few decapitations, some impalement's, someones eye is sucked out with a vacuum cleaner & some blood splatter but nothing w haven't already seen before & the special effects are fairly poor with some terrible zombie make-up. McMahon clearly pays homage or rips-off other (better) films such as Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (1978) as a zombie is killed with a screwdriver in the ear, Day of the Dead (1985) as a character has his arm chopped off after being bitten & the wound is burned shut, there are several gliding POV shots like those seen in The Evil Dead (1982) & when Helena nearly gets a pick-axe in the face you can't help but think of Lucio Fulci's zombie flick The City of the Living Dead (1980). This isn't scary, there's no tension or suspense & with the bare minimum of story (people walking around countryside for 80 minutes) there's not much here to recommend beyond one or two gore effects, a decent pace & a thankfully brief duration.Filmed on location in County Leitrim in Ireland the film does at times look quite nice & fairly professional but at other times it screams cheap low budget shot on digital video camcorder eyesore. The acting is poor although none of the actors are given anything to work with & the character's are very one dimensional.Dead Meat is alright, it passes the time & it has one or two reasonable moments but a complete lack of character's or story doesn't help, neither do the poor make-up effects & a seemingly random ending set inside a castle. Hard to recommend but I've seen worse.

I absolutely HATE zombie-movies! But this one, this one was wonderful (if you can say that about a zombie-movie! I've read some reviews and everybody states that this one is for zombie-lovers, but that is so wrong. The things that make me like this film is that it has a fine mixture between horror and humor. Like, I can be scared to death and then seconds later I can laugh so much it brings tears to my eyes. I like the characters too, especially Desmond, he's the coolest ever ^^ The Irish accent is wonderful, not only that an Irish accent is beautiful, but somehow it brings even more humor to the already funny comments :D There are very funny scenes too, and scary ones. I might think it's scary since I have a zombie-phobia but I think I read that someone else got scared too. Anyway, I have a favorite scene *SPOILER*: and that is when they're driving the car and they see the zombie-bride. When she sees them and turns around and begin to run! Its so darn funny I laugh only to think of it :D *SPOLER ENDED* Those kind of things makes this movie a movie everyone should see. It's all fun and scary at the same time. The only thing that disappoints me is that it's so short. Besides I'm a bit confused about the ending. *SPOLER* I mean, what happened to her and all the other survivors? An old friend told me that they were making food of them, but I don't know. To me it looks like they're just taking them away in a not so very mild way... But maybe I'm naive :P *SPOLER ENDED* Anyway, not even the low budget effects bothered me, but I never really care about effects as long as the movie itself is good. So why am I not giving this movie more than 7? Because it's a zombie-movie and the shortness. Still it's the best zombie-movie ever, and remember: I HATE ZOMBIE-MOVIES!

What can i say, i watched the movie, and it SUCKED. It was a really waste of time, do you call "this" funny, i think the concept of funny its far away from this, funny its something that makes you laugh, not something that makes you hate everything in life, like this movie did...So to complete my 10 lines, which this movie doesn't deserves, ill just say a few things: Porn actor, bad "dunno who they are" actors, bad camera (omg!), bad story, bad effects, not funny, bad storyline, bad acting, bad smell and bad taste (yah, i got that after watching this movie.)