Nice effects though.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

If you don't want to know what this film is about. Don't read any further.This film is an intelligent, and thought provoking drama, well paced and exciting. This film is not about Zombies, this is a just a small part of the crux of this film which deals with a serious issue.The main part is that I agreed entirely with every word spoken by the DJ, aside from what the terrorist wanted him to say over the air at gun point.When the Western World invades Middle East countries under the pretext of getting rid of their dictator's, when it's really all about oil, then we proceed to try and bring Western ideologically driven so-called democracy to the far East, what the hell can we expect ?, to be patted on the back ?????????? Both Britain and America have always played the World's police, whether the far East want us or not.And in Dead Air, we get a chance to see what might happen now or in the future, when a Terrorist manages through a type of gas, to turn locals into mad men and women, and then the terrorist hijacks a Radio Talk show.A simple premise that worked well, getting it's point home. But will we Westeners learn ?????????.

Yes, you can! The movie is very cheap, not very bright but interesting in its message: There is group of some Middle east terrorist who must communicate that the Middle eastern terrorist are not the problem - the US are the problem. So they decide to make multiple terrorist attacks on US soil to gather attention about their peaceful nature.This is because, you know, there is secret zombie-virus developed in US labs. (Please ignore the fact the US stopped developing biological weapons in sixties, whereas bioweapon labs in Iraq and Lybia have been working on their programs until recently. The US labs are ALWAYS the problem, ever.) Of course, even if such substance would be developed in US labs, you would still have to steal enough of it to perform multiple attacks or to cultivate it which would be probably very hard to impossible for any Middle eastern terrorist. But never worry, no brain has been damaged by realistic thinking during production of this movie. Simply blame the US government project as usual so we can continue this "thrill ride".Please don't expect too much action. Some folks run around in dark trying attack others, turning them instantly into the zombies. But this movie is mostly about sitting on the ass and thinking aloud about nonsense of paranoia. (Yes, it IS seriously bizarre given the situation.) The characters in the radio station are bunch of wimps, they seem not be able to form any reasonable measure: There is no defensive plan, there is no realistic combat, they are even not able to lock the doors or block them effectively. The action scenes are really laughable. The most hilarious is the "elevator fight" where glass wearing nerd fights the zombie - security guard who is approximately two times as big and three times as heavy and WINS bare handed! This is NOT because he is nerd Rambo, but the security guard seems to be too inept (at least at that very moment). There are two persons in the radio station yet they are not able to incapacitate / kill the one terrorist even when he seems to collapse under the exposition to the virus. They spend some fun time discussing bad US policy instead.The only really hard core person here is the wife of the moderator - she can kill bigger and stronger virus-laden man with a glass shard bare handed. This is specnaz class action - I seriously doubt if this can be really done by untrained person. I think even Rambo would use some protection for his hands before using glass shards. But I do guess this was humanistic gun free home so there was really no alternative.The final scene is full of totally pathetic declamations about the fate of human race. I ended up watching this train wreck of "humanistic propaganda" laughing aloud. Seriously, you will not find so many such stupid movies even in communistic propaganda cinema!

"Dead Air" is a zombie film with a few different elements of surprise thrown in for good measure. An overtly, competent talk radio host (Bill Moseley) speaks his mind to a late night audience, while an outbreak of toxic zombie-juice (brought on by Muslim terrorists) engulfs an unsuspecting city. Not a bad premise, but really nothing new. It was a bit preachy for a horror flick, and spent a lot of time using underlining character relationships to tug at the viewer's heart-strings (sorry, didn't quite work here) and this slowed the pacing down for much of the film. Moseley, along with the (always sexy) Patricia Tallman do a decent job as the film's protagonists, while the zombies themselves (with blood dripping from their eyes) tear apart their victims. I'm guessing the film's Armageddon theme was a lesson in hatred, and the writer's views on the world today. I didn't realize until the end credits that "Corbin Bernsen" was the director... I guess I didn't even realize that he was a "director" for that fact, but "Dead Air" is a pleasantly fun zombie movie if zombie movies are your thing. Breaks no new ground, but none the less "entertains" the way it's supposed to.

I watched this film mistakenly thinking that it was that other radio station zombie flick. The shonky production values and low-rent cast soon gave away that this was another one of the those cheap sci-fi channel style knock offs.The central performance from Bill Moseley is initially quite engaging as the dubious radio shock jock but as the film goes on becomes less and less convincing as he is actually required to act. The rest of the cast have little to do other than look concerned and have no depth whatsoever.The cinematography is dull, flat and completely uninspired, like so many of these kind of films. It doesn't even manage a decent bit of convincing gore, the zombie make up is literally pathetic apart from one notable exception towards the end of the film.The film tries to inject originality and a message into it's concoction of half baked and ripped off ideas by somehow equating this outbreak with intolerance towards Islam and the war on terror. This is woefully handled with all the intellectual clout of a 6 year old. As the characters and seemingly the writers are unable to distinguish the difference between race and religion - describing all people of a certain skin colour as "muslims." Most notably one character is revealed to be Muslim by skin colour alone. At the same time the "muslim" terrorists who cause the outbreak are the usual psychopathic stereotype. Presumably the far far superior Pontypool had a similar budget as Dead Air yet shines everywhere where this film fails miserably.