Shadows of the Dead

When I found "Shadows of the Dead", I had initially believed it to be a zombie movie cashing in on the success of Romero's numerous zombie movies. So given my fascination with the horror genre and all things zombie, I sat down to watch "Shadows of the Dead".

First of all, it didn't turn out to be a zombie movie, which I had believed it to be. But what it turned out to be, wasn't a bad thing. However, it just happened to be a very mediocre and predictable movie.

This happened to be just another generic late-teen horror movie, and I must admit that it is getting somewhat of a cliché with a group of young people out in the wilderness late at night and having something sinister chase them.

The special effects in the movie were just not overly believable or particularly impressive. And that sort of worked against the movie, especially so since a horror movie usually needs proper special effects.

As for the acting in "Shadows of the Dead", well it was as to be expected from a late-teen horror movie.

Granted that this is a SyFy movie, and that usually means that you are in for something questionable nine out of ten times, and "Shadows of the Dead" didn't stand out from the usual stuff that SyFy mass produce.

All in all, a less than mediocre horror movie, and my rating of it ends on a 4 out of 10 stars.