It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

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.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

In my opinion, The Dead was a good zombie movie, and it can reflected the zombie outbreak situation if it did happen in the African regions. The zombies were scattered away and so persistent to eating humans, also difficult to get distracted. But the makeup was the flawed of this movie, it wasn't scary enough. The film overall was good.

...obviously "The Dead" didn't set any worlds on fire, nor did it attract all that much of an audience, at least judging by its relative dearth of attention here on the IMDb. I'm not surprised. Written, directed, shot and edited by a Brit brother team of no great renown, "The Dead" suffers from a fairly mundane script with the debatable highlights of a unique setting (at least for zombie movies--and I may be overlooking an Italian gut-muncher or two), some old-school production values (practical fx instead of CGI), and a lead who had a bit part in "Saving Private Ryan." That ain't a lot, but it helps lift "The Dead" just a tad over its lesser brethren.As mentioned, it's the script that keeps this one from being memorable. You've seen and heard all of this before, and usually in better films with more interesting characters in more interesting situations. "The Dead" sports a few too many tedious sequences of traipsing the wilds for its own good, and not enough genuine storytelling. You see this sort of thing all the time in amateur films on YouTube; it's irritating in a full-length motion picture. The Ford Brothers have some talent, but they need to refine and polish it. I won't write them off on the basis of this one misfire, but they definitely need to step up their game.Genre viewing only, and the cheaper the better.

I'm not generally a fan of the horror genre, but I DO like zombie movies. I found the plot of this one interesting and the setting to be refreshingly different. While there are some good scenes, one of which will really pull at your heart strings, most of the movie is cliché' ridden and predictable. What to me is most annoying AND inexcusable are characters that are stupid, yet have thus far survived the zombies. I can recall at least six such instances in this movie alone. As much as I'm empathetic TOWARDS the main characters, their repeated stupidity almost makes me want to root for the zombies! See this one only if it's cheap or free and/or you want to make sure that you've seen yet another variation on the zombie theme.

The Dead is an absolute classic. Anyone familiar with Romero or Fulci's zombie masterpieces will feel instantly at home with the zombies who appear in what is already on its way to becoming a cult classic.Unfortunately the new breed of zombies inevitably gain a superpower from death... this can be running, jumping, snarling, pulling angry faces, crawling on ceilings or some other silly bonus. It's hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all. Because of this, the vast majority of zombie films tend to fall into the dire category. Only a handful of directors have managed to pull it off, namely Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later (if you can count the infected as being zombies).Now take the The Ford Brothers, they have done their homework, and are true fans of the genre, and it shows. They give us true corpses shambling through exquisite scenery. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, relentlessly closing in, unstoppable, intractable. However (and herein lies the sublime artfulness of the slow zombie), their ineptitude actually makes them avoidable, at least for a while. If you're careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them - much as we strive to outstrip death.There's little dialog in the film. but what there is rings true, and the pacing gives the characters time to develop without ever feeling rushed.I applaud The Ford Brothers. They have made ​​a solid movie without spending a fortune. It is undoubtedly one of the best zombie films out there.