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Deadlands 2: Trapped
USA 2008
produced by Elias Dancey, Chris Kiros, Joseph Carney (executive), Damien Donnelly (executive), Philip Greene (executive), Victoria Terry (executive), Thomas Touhey (executive), Gary Ugarek (executive) for Wetnwildradio Films, Art Held Hostage
directed by Gary Ugarek
starring Joseph D.Durbin, Chris L.Clark, Josh Davidson, Ashley Young, Corrine Brush, Alexa Davidson, Jim Krut, Dave Cooperman, Eric Shawn Thomas, Lee Tanner, Megan Atwood, Chris O'Brocki, Harold Frazer, Chris Kiros, Greg Rice, A.J.Faraj, Michael D.Hiatt, Gavin Peretti, Kerry KEarns, Gita M.McCarthy, Philip Greene, Thomas Touhey, Cindy Marie Martin, Michelle Wright
written by Gary Ugarek, music by by Gary Ugarek, Brian Wright, Marq-Paul La Rose, special makeup effects by Spaghetti Industries
Deadlands
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The US-Army tests a new bacteriological weapon on a small village, a
weapon that turns most of the population into your friendly carnivorous neighbourhood zombies. Six people (Joseph D.Durbin, Chris L.Clark, Josh
Davidson, Ashley Young, Corrine Brush, Alexa Davidson) though manage to
lock themselves inside a movie theatre where the zombies have no way to
get in - even if they put the place under siege as a result. The problem
is though that one of the bunch (Josh Davidson) has been bitten by a
zombie, and is slowly turning into one himself - which the others don't
know yet. Eventually, our heroes get a phonecall through to the
authorities - the army -, and are told everything will be over at six in
the morning - and trying to make sense of this message, they come to the
conclusion that this has to mean at six the village will be bombed to
kingdom come (which is exactly what that message was supposed to mean, by the
way). Now our gang tries to make it out of the theatre to a car to escape
the big bang, but because one of
them is also a zombie, and because of the zombie siege, only two (Joseph
D.Durbin, Chris L.Clark) of them make it while the others are massacred.
For some reason though, despite their knowledge of impending doom, the two
survivors are too stupid to make it out of the village by six, they obviously
prefer stop on their way to investigate an army checkpoint that was
overrun by the undead to living a little longer, and thus perish in an
explosion along with the living dead and the whole village as such. This is a sequel to Deadlands:
The Rising only in title - but what goes for the first film is
also true here: This is just another zombie movie, a film that has nothing
to distinguish itself from the thousands of other films of its ilk, the
plot has already been told elsewhere (George A.Romero's The
Crazies immediately comes to mind), and better, too, its
characters are uninteresting to the hilt, and its unashamed and hardly
disguised advertisement for firearms towards the end of the film is
nothing short of despicable. Sure, the film is well-crafted, especially regarding the tiny
budget it was shot for (reportedly way under 10,000 Dollars), but apart
from that there is very little to recommend it for.
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