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Shadows of the Dead

USA 2004
produced by
Carl Lindbergh, Robert H. Straight (executive), Michele Taverna (executive) for ANOC Productions
directed by Carl Lindbergh
starring Jonathan Flanigan, Beverly Hynds, Fred Dekom, Jason Schwartz, Ryan Christopher, Mark Harari, Nick Schirmer, Carly Aguira, Mary Marshall, Cassandra Smith, Jennifer Hatley, Brianna Nakutis, Cindy Gonzalez, Paul Kessler
written by Carl Lindbergh, music by Antonio Underwood, special effects makeup by Frank Jackson, Ryusakae Yamaguchi

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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John (Jonathan Flanigan) and Jennifer's (Beverly Hynds) car breaks down in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, and she gets freaked out when she thinks she sees a corpse lieing in the woods not far from the car, and even more when the supposed corpse is gone. John is less worried, but then he goes into the woods to take a piss, and is bitten by something ...

John's bite as such wasn't anything serious, but weirdly enough, his condition worsens. Trying to walk back to civilisation, John and Jennifer eventually find a summer home that seems to be abandoned this time of the year, where they decide to put up house to take care of John. However, John's condition continues to worsen, up to the point where he has no more heartbeat. Now that's a bad sign by any standards, but weirdly enough, John is not dead, is still able to think, move, walk, talk. It's just that he's slowly overcome by some sort of numbness - and he slowly starts to decay.

Jennifer takes John to a hospital, but there, the doctor's reaction is to panic and call security. Jennifer and John make it out though and decide to continue to hide out in the abandoned summer home.

John feels a sudden craving for human flesh, and eventually, he is so overcome by this craving that he bites Jennifer. He doesn't kill her or eat her up whole or anything, he just bites her - which is a bad thing, because it was a bite that gave him his condition, and sure enough, Jennifer's heart stops to beat before long, she starts to decay and feel numb.

Like John, Jennifer starts to feel a craving for human flesh, but she is stronger in fighting it - which only worsens her condition of course. And this gets John worried, so he orders pizza and kills the pizza guy (Jason Schwartz), just to feed Jennifer. She doesn't approve though, doesn't want to have to kill to stay alive (or rather undead).

John goes out night after night, and one day, Jennifer sneaks after him - and witnesses him brutally killing some campers and feeding on them.

Seeing the hopelessness of her situation - she doesn't want to kill but needs human flesh to survive -, Jennifer shoots herself dead - I mean really dead.

John realizes she's right of course, and to not have to kill anymore, he chains himself to a post int he basement, but all to no avail. Also, he isn't as determined as Jennifer was to commit suicide - so when a police patrol stops by to investigate all the gruesome killings that have happened of late, he willingly provokes them to shoot him.

 

A zombie film done as a love story - now that's a novel twist ... and while it sounds stupid as a concept, it actually works mainly thanks to a well-written script that cleverly circumvents cheesy spots, and that doesn't make a fool of the concept, instead treats the story with the seriousness it deserves. Add to this a couple of competent leads and a pretty nice makeup job depicting the slow decay of the characters, and you've got a pretty good film - however not a perfect one, because on a directorial level, Carl Lindbergh just fails to bring the macabre elements of his own script to full bloom, using predominately soft lights and a warm colour-chart to mar any creepy atmosphere the film would have deserved.

That said, the film is anything but a trainwreck, it's still pretty good actually. It just could have been great, but as it is it merely shows promise.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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