Living in the old west, a cowboy attempting to hunt a savage killer instead runs into a small town on the frontier menaced by the living dead raised by a fallen meteorite and must put his mission on hold to battle the swarm of creatures overrunning the town.
This one was a lot better than expected. A lot of this one's positives are based on the second half when it gets to the zombie- based goodness which has a great deal to like about this one. The idea of the meteorite spewing the toxic fumes that turns the town is a nice one, making for a somewhat enjoyable concept that plays well with the western-based setting, which makes for some fun times here as this one goes for the nice action scenes of the creatures attacking in the town and out in the woods where they first encounter them. Those first encounters, from the interruption of the shootout to the creek brawl and the chase through the open plains, are quite fun and really set this one up for the action-packed scenes in the abandoned town where the zombified townspeople come out to launch their attacks. From there, it leads into all the fun of the zombies' ambush in the saloon where they come across the different creatures patrolling the area resulting in all the barricading efforts and different escape attempts hiding in the rooms and hallways from them trying to get at the group, the shootouts along the main street of town, the run-ins where they have to clear the creatures still around as well as the big final battle out in the countryside where the woods filled with zombies get blasted quite gruesomely in rather entertaining sequences. Before these, it still has some rather enjoyable Western-style fun with the nice shoot-out and brawl that opens this one as well as their later fistfight in the woods that's really enjoyable, while the frontier- town setup and the lifestyle shown gives this a solid introductory world to fall into. With all these scenes giving this one some nice suspenseful moments as well as giving this plenty of gore and a great look at the zombie make-up for the creatures, there's plenty to like with this one as it has some enjoyable qualities. It still has some problematic areas here, which concerns the rather ham-fisted way the zombies are introduced here as the fact that there's just no real easy way for the film to make the zombie apocalypse make sense here. It's just not all that well-developed here in terms of generating a cohesive feel with the western-genre and the zombie genre mixed together here, and overall it's quite weakly mixed together here since it's somewhat confusingly mixed together. Likewise, the fact that the zombie behavior is somewhat odd and different than what most will be expecting here as this one does play around with the rules, not transferring the condition through a bite and running after people formulating plans instead of just aimless shuffling which makes them somewhat different than what most are used to. The last problem is that the low-budget qualities here are on full-display and makes for a somewhat distracting appearance due to the CGI work and the laughably inaccurate period setting here which gives away the fact that it's not there at all. Still, this one did have some decent work about it.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity and Language.
This one was a lot better than expected. A lot of this one's positives are based on the second half when it gets to the zombie- based goodness which has a great deal to like about this one. The idea of the meteorite spewing the toxic fumes that turns the town is a nice one, making for a somewhat enjoyable concept that plays well with the western-based setting, which makes for some fun times here as this one goes for the nice action scenes of the creatures attacking in the town and out in the woods where they first encounter them. Those first encounters, from the interruption of the shootout to the creek brawl and the chase through the open plains, are quite fun and really set this one up for the action-packed scenes in the abandoned town where the zombified townspeople come out to launch their attacks. From there, it leads into all the fun of the zombies' ambush in the saloon where they come across the different creatures patrolling the area resulting in all the barricading efforts and different escape attempts hiding in the rooms and hallways from them trying to get at the group, the shootouts along the main street of town, the run-ins where they have to clear the creatures still around as well as the big final battle out in the countryside where the woods filled with zombies get blasted quite gruesomely in rather entertaining sequences. Before these, it still has some rather enjoyable Western-style fun with the nice shoot-out and brawl that opens this one as well as their later fistfight in the woods that's really enjoyable, while the frontier- town setup and the lifestyle shown gives this a solid introductory world to fall into. With all these scenes giving this one some nice suspenseful moments as well as giving this plenty of gore and a great look at the zombie make-up for the creatures, there's plenty to like with this one as it has some enjoyable qualities. It still has some problematic areas here, which concerns the rather ham-fisted way the zombies are introduced here as the fact that there's just no real easy way for the film to make the zombie apocalypse make sense here. It's just not all that well-developed here in terms of generating a cohesive feel with the western-genre and the zombie genre mixed together here, and overall it's quite weakly mixed together here since it's somewhat confusingly mixed together. Likewise, the fact that the zombie behavior is somewhat odd and different than what most will be expecting here as this one does play around with the rules, not transferring the condition through a bite and running after people formulating plans instead of just aimless shuffling which makes them somewhat different than what most are used to. The last problem is that the low-budget qualities here are on full-display and makes for a somewhat distracting appearance due to the CGI work and the laughably inaccurate period setting here which gives away the fact that it's not there at all. Still, this one did have some decent work about it.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity and Language.