DjfunkmasterG
07-Feb-2007, 08:24 PM
I don't know how the hell I missed this review, but it came out December 1st 2006 and was based on a screening at the ICFLM film fest in Racine Wisconsin.
Deadlands: The Rising - Deadlands: The Rising was probably the best feature film I saw at the ICFLM festival. This story of the beginning of the end of the world is the tale of a family and what happens to them after a nuclear attack spawns a rising of the undead. While there's plenty of zombie gore here, with the recently deceased attacking people who are lined up in a traffic jam trying to escape the bigger cities, the real tale here is about Michelle, Brian and their family, who leave town separately and wind up at Michelle's brothers home in the deep woods. There are a couple of unfulfilled storylines, we meet a man who is in a supposedly safe place, protected by the National Guard and Homeland Security, that is overrun by zombies, but we never find out what happened to him and the end is left as a cliffhanger for what is sure to be a cool sequel! Deadlands: The Rising is a thinking man's zombie movie, if you're just expecting gore and guts and nothing else, you might want to look elsewhere, this is that rare things, a zombie flick with a plot! By Brian Morton
Part of the ICFLM Article http://www.roguecinema.com/article822.html
Deadlands: The Rising - Deadlands: The Rising was probably the best feature film I saw at the ICFLM festival. This story of the beginning of the end of the world is the tale of a family and what happens to them after a nuclear attack spawns a rising of the undead. While there's plenty of zombie gore here, with the recently deceased attacking people who are lined up in a traffic jam trying to escape the bigger cities, the real tale here is about Michelle, Brian and their family, who leave town separately and wind up at Michelle's brothers home in the deep woods. There are a couple of unfulfilled storylines, we meet a man who is in a supposedly safe place, protected by the National Guard and Homeland Security, that is overrun by zombies, but we never find out what happened to him and the end is left as a cliffhanger for what is sure to be a cool sequel! Deadlands: The Rising is a thinking man's zombie movie, if you're just expecting gore and guts and nothing else, you might want to look elsewhere, this is that rare things, a zombie flick with a plot! By Brian Morton
Part of the ICFLM Article http://www.roguecinema.com/article822.html