Flight of the Living Dead
On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container.
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- Cast:
- David Chisum , Kristen Kerr , Richard Tyson , Kevin J. O'Connor , Erick Avari , Todd Babcock , Laura Cayouette
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Absolutely Fantastic
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Flight of the Living Dead is exactly what you'd expect it to be. A low budget, campy, silly zombie movie that is ludicrous, violent and full of D-list actors. It's a film full of "Hey! I know that guy!" actors who play the bit roles in a thousand different shows and movies.The special effects are pretty bad, definitely low budget. The airplane they're on is definitely built to "Hollywood standard". Having crucial control panels in places where they never would be, amazing ducts that seem to have more space in them than the plane itself, sections of the plane that are made of titanium or cardboard as the scene requires. lolThe acting is wonderfully bad, with lots of stupid one liners, completely out of place comments and just horrible decisions that only ever happen in the movies.All in all, it's a fine example of a fun movie to waste a couple of hours with.
Or Plane Dead , They should have kept that as the title.I saw this when first came out online, back then it was called Plane Dead, I have not seen it since then,I thought the movie started of little slow first, the action dose really kick off until after 45 min mark, but before 30 min , you do get the infected person.The Infected/Zombies make up effect were, not great, that looked bit odd, I wasn't to keen on yellow eyes, other then that didn't really look scary, some one just look funny not in a good way.There are really good funny moment in this movie as some very good bloody moment as well, there a lot action in third act of the movie and none stop until the very ended.The acting it was not great but it's more then watch-able, I did not like how the movie ended at all. I really do hate those fake last scarce scenes, saw it's coming but it no were near as the worst zombie out there, it's just average zombie. Silly and fun zombie not as fun as your first watch 5 out of 10 second watch
FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is one of those bargain basement horror outings that it's all too easy to pass by in the video store. The title alone makes it sound like a cheesy riff on George Romero's classic zombie fest and you just know it's going to invariably be low budget and rather silly in places. As it turns, it's far from the worst zombie movie ever made – it has better production values than APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD, for example – but it has crucial flaws that spoil its entertainment value.One of the worst is how the scenes involving the undead are actually handled. They're portrayed in the cheesiest, over-the-top manner possible, with some CGI effects that are absolutely awful and some make-up and contact lenses that look like they belong at a Halloween party. It's strange, because the rest of the film is played relatively straight and seriously; there's a B-movie atmosphere, yes, but the actors are game and it all hangs together relatively well until the zombies show up.The interesting thing about this movie is the high number of familiar faces rounding out the cast. The captain of the plane, Raymond Barry, was a series regular on THE X-FILES; the bad guy, Erick Avarj, and the criminal, Kevin J. O'Connor, were both in THE MUMMY; Dale Midkiff was a leading man back in the day (think PET SEMATARY) but is now way down the cast list, while B-movie stalwart Brian Thompson shows up and is so embarrassed that his face is covered for the entire duration of his appearance (I only noticed him because of his name in the credits). Genre fans might enjoy themselves with this one, but I can't say I was particularly impressed; there are a lot better movies out there, and FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD doesn't offer anything that we haven't seen before. I like the premise, but the execution could have been a lot better (and scarier) had it been handled more subtly.
If Wes Craven was to try his hand at a zombie film, this would be the end result, and I sincerely mean it was that bad. One part in particular brings this to mind, the people getting pulled through the bathroom mirror, just like the mother getting pulled through the window at the end of the original Nightmare on Elm Street. The cheesy teen drama and the 80's guitar ballads were so appropriate. Why not just call in Nightmare on the Plane. At the end of the film, somewhere between zombies flying through the air and the captain's head bursting like a water balloon, I began to believe this is probably the worst zombie film I can recall, apart from Night of The Living Dead 3D. With the Halloween shop gory effects and the acting, which was a step bellow a preschool presentation, it leaves me wondering why I rented this film, even if it was free. I'm sure I could have seen it on SyFy or Chiller.