What makes it different from others?

Good concept, poorly executed.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

****SPOILERS*** Due to a failed experiment by the eminent Dr. Bow, Lester Clark, in trying to solve the ills of the world he created a virus that takes over the bodies of the dead and bring them back to life as flesh eating Zombies. This cost Dr. Bow his life who was killed and eaten by the Zombies before he could put a cure to this madness into effect by having it put on the open market. It's now four years later with the Zombies now outnumbering the living and and we see this anti-Zombie squad doing it's best to keep the tide of Zombies contained and from spreading although out the United States.The anti-Zombie squad lead by the sh*t kicking and take no BS commander Raimi, Peter Ferry, has the task of finding the dead Dr. Bow's secret papers in him finding a cure for the Zombie menace and with it inoculate the still living population before they get infected. It's Dr. Bow's assistant Dr. Moulsson's, Bagdan Pecic, job to complete the task that Dr. Bow failed to finish. But as it turns out Dr. Moulsson is more interested in the safety of his hat that he feels, like Dorothy's red slippers in "The Wizard of Oz", has magical powers that can do the job far better then Dr. Bow's vaccine! Added to all this insanity there's religious nut-case and cult leader Rev Jones, Robert Kokai, who's using the Zombies to his advantage in getting him, through his promises of saving the world, more followers who he in fact turns into Zombies themselves.****SPOILERS*** Mindless & gory Zombie movie with those that the Zombies kill and eat as well as the Zombies themselves, when their shot and run through, sprouts black, oily looking, not red blood! Despite Commander Raimi Herculean efforts to get the cure out to prevent the virus from infecting the dead or soon to be dead fails spectacularly because Dr.Moulsson's sloppy work in the laboratory. That in him looking after his magic hat more then the human population of the planet earth. Ramimi who was later attacked and bit by a Zombie ended up joining them when the serum that the incompetent Dr. Moulsson had "prefected" used on him totally backfired!

Love this movie cheesy as hell gory as hell and I like the direction a lot the bad dub job Bruce Campbell voice in the movie lots of zombies and just great camp I think a lot of people just don't get it glade I did tho!Story well there is a zombie apocalypse and there is a crazy Jim Jones like cult that want to save the zombies rev Jones ha ha the character names are great to commander carpenter ramie Romero etc.For a super 8 movie its very impressive zombies look great and gore effects work very well also love the opening credits and soundtrack I need to find it if its available.If I was J.R Bookwalter I be proud its entertaining and the replay value is way high the movie runs only 78 minutes.The DVD by anchor bay is must buy!!!!

I really enjoyed this film. I watched it once or twice before I hit the special features and watched the featurettes with interviews from the cast and crew. I think those interviews really helped me appreciate this film more. The director had no budget and no idea how to really operate a camera (it seems the first time they shot a lot of the effects and various scenes, the light meter was trusted less than the untrained eye, and many shots came out so dark that they were unusable). With some creative and sometimes silly, schlocky ideas for gore and effects and an interesting, even compelling follow-up to both Romero's Dead films (the original three which had been released by that time) and Sam Raimi's Evil Dead I and II, I really think this film had some interesting points to it. There are no incredible special effects, the acting is silly (the main character's voice has now been replaced with Bruce Campbell's), the budget was extremely low (though it was funded by a "Mr. X," who kept his identity a secret... do a little research on that one, the answer is surprising), and I think they made something campy, fun, and even, at times, creepy. I liked it a lot for a no-budget midnight flick.

it only gets a 1 out of ten because you cant select a zero! i have never felt compelled to comment on a film before but was so disappointed in this film that i had to register and say my piece.i first heard of the film years ago, lots of hype about it being a great little indie zombie film (i am a huge huge fan of the genre), then when i eventually got hold of a copy it was well packaged and the cover looked good......after the opening sentence i had already made up my mind that this film was complete and utter tripe but i still gave the movie a chance.i know that the budget was modest but $80.000 is what it cost sam raimi to make the evil dead (though tatty - a real classic) and he rented proper equipment and had some decent actors, and also showed some directorial flair.this movie was just completely classless and does little in homage to the greats such as carpenter, raimi and romero which it so shamelessly rips off from and it is pretty embarrassing for them to be noted as jr bookwalters inspiration for the film as this really isn't saying much.no wonder producer raimi wont put his name to this abomination.some elements of the film could have been good ideas, the original script for romeros day of the dead had an army of trained zombies but due to budgetary constraints had to be cut - a shame because it would have been executed infinitely better than in this film.in summary i was expecting to view a little known jem of a film but was left feeling annoyed that id been duped. if you want zombie classics, re-visit the dead trilogy(now quadrilogy)or evil dead films - don't waste your time and money on this.