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If you're a zombie fan, this is worth watching, but it's not one of those gems, like Undead or Dead Meat, that you could watch again and again. Ideal for a good one-night rental.

There are tons of really awful zombie flicks out there, with stupid dialogue, bad acting, and even worse makeup and F/X. Then there are the few really awesome offerings, that just hit on all cylinders, and keep you on the edge of your seat and begging for more. This movie is neither. It's truly not a bad movie, either in the general sense, or simply as a zombie flick. In fact, it's actually kinda fun. The worst thing going for it is simply that it's virtually impossible to come up with anything new, since it's all been done before, so you can't help but make comparisons. Had most of the events we see in this movie not been seen before in some guise, this would probably be considered a keeper. But, since we have seen it all before, it's important to ask yourself one, simple question: Did I enjoy myself while watching this. And the answer is yes.

It's true that there are slightly campy moments. It's true that there are back-to-back scenes where in one someone hears a distant moan, but in the next doesn't hear gunfire from the same location. It's true that some of the dialogue is cheesy, and you feel the pain of the seasoned pro doing his best to recite them without feeling silly. Nevertheless, if you just allow yourself to sit back and be drawn-in to the story, and can sustain a little suspension of disbelief without falling back on the tried-n-true (albeit fun) habit of nitpicking every little mistake and silly bit, I really think you'll enjoy yourself, and can kill and hour-and-a-half that you may never get back, but won't mind losing. :)

It's zombies on a plane, you get the idea. Actually well done, a bit wonky in spots as it has the feeling that additional scenes were shot to fill out the movie and the additional scenes don't quite mesh with the rest of the film. For example when the plane is going through extreme turbulence, apparently certain areas of the plane are completely immune. Also, I don't know much about piloting aircraft but I'm pretty sure the tower's call sign isn't 'base'. One of the biggest goofs that I noticed was the plane suffers explosive decompression several times.

There are some real comedic moments especially with Derek Webster who plays as a golf pro named Long Shot. Long Shot carries a gold putter that he uses quite effectively against the zombies, even to decapitate a few getting a giggle from me each time. In a later sequence, Long Shot has quite the medley of zombie destroying weapons as he valiantly fights his way to the cockpit. The zombies are of the 28 Days Later variety but they are true ghouls here, not infected humans. The zombies are really what make this movie fun to watch. They are quick and devious and they skitter about like vicious beasts. My favorite skittering scene being a stewardess scurrying through a crawlspace in a short skirt carrying an arm in her jaws, beautiful! One of the best scenes happens in the bathroom, I will never feel safe in an airplane bathroom again.

The girls are beautiful and the stewardesses are sexy but all of them keep their clothes (I know some of you want to know this). The R rating to come is earned purely through blood, gore and violence. For the most part the characters are reasonably intelligent. There are some stupid things that happen, sometimes intentionally for comedic pleasure and sometimes because the film makers were lazy but this is a B movie so I can forgive a few gaffs. FOLD manages some true moments of suspense. Were the movie more polished I could have easily given it a 7/10. A must see for zombie fans or lovers of campy action movies.

"Flight of the Living Dead" is a decent take on the Zombie genre that kept me on the edge of the seat for the full running time. It stands out because it presents you with some things you don't expect from the average low-budget direct-to-video Zombie flick, i.e. a script that actually works, decent acting, neat make-up effects and even a nice score.

What I liked about the plot: There's are rather long but surprisingly suspenseful introduction before it gets bloody. That part works because the writers use the time to introduce some well chosen stereotypes of characters that promise to be fun victims later on. There's the jock, his rich bitch girlfriend, the cute-but-stupid stewardess, the evil corporate guy and even a Tiger Woods look-kinda-alike, just to name a few. The movie also stays relatively plausible and plays coy before it kicks into high gear for the finale. It's a sudden and thoroughly enjoyable switch in tone.

"Flight of the Living Dead" is no disguised comment on society but as far as zombie butcherfests go, this one is pretty nice. Not revolutionary film making, but rather competently executed gory fun.

If you enjoyed the intro song and desperately tried to locate it without success: Take a look at the M*Space page of one Bill Grainer, the gentleman who wrote the song.

I will never understand the haters of the zombie genre. Just like romantic comedy these gems are not made for everyone.

The few people who appreciate a good zombie movie will see the originality and joy in this movie. Granted it is not scary..AT ALL and it isn't nearly gory enough, but still this movie deserves its due. It took a concept that has been done to death, people locked in a confined area fighting back a zombie invasion...(Night of the Living Dead being the blueprint) and gave it a twist that I really appreciated.

Being trapped in a confined space with the Zombies, leaving you with zero room to hide and none of that long drawn out psychological mind-screw most films rely on to kill time.

I loved this movie, and if you love zombie flicks, I'm sure you will too.

I don't understand why some of you (or many) have given this film upward of 8 stars out of 10. Do you understand that there are lower ratings for a reason? Sure, this may be a zombie flick with some splatter, but thats it. I'm not a hater on zombie films, but this was awful. Really, actually, I should call it more like a zombie-soap, because thats how the acting is. Production is... well, okay. Barely an attempt at plot development, awful acting, silly effects, clichés, and an abrupt ending. Go ahead and like zombie movies, but don't ever give this above a 5.0. Honestly though, the only reason you should want to watch this movie is to laugh. Seriously.

This demented and adorably over-the-top gory zombie flick was presented and introduced here at the Belgian Horror & Fantasy Festival by its writer/creator Scott Thomas. He claims that, in spite of all the obvious plot-similarities with "Snakes on a Plane", his film is definitely NOT a quick cash-in on the huge success of the 2006 summer-blockbuster and that the basic concept and the pre-production phase of "Plane Dead" actually predate "Snakes on a Plane". Well, I don't know if all that is true, but I tend to believe Thomas because he's such a nice guy and he seemed very confident. Moreover, even if "Plane Dead" simply was a rip-off of the popular Sam L. Jackson hit, I still wouldn't care that much, because it's such a tremendously entertaining and enthusiast splatter-flick! As long as you don't expect new and groundbreaking story lines and/or highly intellectual dialogs, "Plane Dead" honestly can't fail to amuse you. In most departments, it's even far better and more appealing to horror fanatics than "Snakes on a Plane", because it's a lot faster, cheesier, gorier and shamelessly features all the standard clichés us genre fans love so much. Safely protected in the cargo-hold of the red-eye flight from L.A. to Paris, a mysterious scientific experiment is transported out of the US by its malicious creators. The unscrupulous Dr. Leo Bennett and his loyal researchers developed a virus that rapidly destroys human DNA, only to revive the infected victim again as a bloodthirsty and unstoppable zombie. He plans to sell his formula to the military in order to create the ultimate soldier, of course, but some unanticipated turbulence and noisy passengers on the 747-flight cause the female "test-case" zombie to resurrect a little early, and she immediately begins to feast her way through crew and passengers. Once bitten, the victim turns into a zombie as well, and pretty soon the plane is overrun by seemingly more zombies than there were passengers in the first place. It perhaps takes slightly too long before the zombies run loose on the plane, but when they do "Plane Dead" turns into a non-stop series of laughs, creative deaths and extreme gore. Apparently, only stereotypes were allowed aboard this flight and it's always a lot of fun to watch those getting killed off one by one. Naturally it's the elderly pilot's last flight before retirement, there's the heroic copper – who eventually has to save the day - transporting a witty criminal, arguing teen couples, sexy yet empty-headed stewardesses, couples with marriage issues and Tiger Woods' biggest competitor himself! The gore is guaranteed to please people, as the script features several ingenious new methods to kill zombies, like an umbrella through the head, nine-iron golf clubs and of course airplane engines. Be honest, what would you rather get face-to-face with whilst stuck in an inescapable location: ordinary snakes, albeit a little venomous ... or filthy, virulent, ravenous and outrageous zombies? There are quite a few recognizable faces in the cast, like Kevin J. O'Connor (the creep from "Lord of Illusions" and "Deep Rising"), Erick Avari and Richard Tyson. The lines and characters are often very funny, the make-up effects are delightfully campy in an old-fashioned way and there even is an occasional moment of genuine suspense. "Plane Dead" is awesome horror-entertainment and I hope Scott Thomas will enjoy the success he deserves with it.

Zombies on a plane! Sounds like a whole bunch of fun doesn't it? This movie had everything a perfect no-brainer (no pun intended) zombie flick should have. With the classic stereotypes such as hot bimbos and their sport jock boyfriends, a hero cop escorting a prisoner, sexy stewardesses, a black pro-athlete, a bible-clutching nun and off course the evil scientists guilty of it all, I didn't see how this could go wrong. The movie started off pretty good as the first zombies started to pop up but after a while it just got repetitive and boring. The special effects were almost as bad as most of the acting and basically the movie didn't show us anything we haven't seen a hundred times already in this genre, and since when did a zombie get neutralized by a non-head shot! All in all this was a bit entertaining but I hardly doubt I'll ever watch it again. 28 Weeks Later up next!

it's not a "hard zombie" film, but yet it manages to have a few "clever" scenes while mixing along some humour (not always necessary, one must admit it), which makes this film enjoyable and pleasant to watch.

the acting is fairly decent and well accomplished and the storyline, though not brilliant and all that elaborated. it still manages to keep the film from being yet another pretentious zombie production, producing good moments of solid action with a couple of more "heavy/scary" scenes, though i wouldn't quite call it a horror film.

a good option to consider ;)

This has to be the worst movie i've seen this year.. and i watch a lot of cable. The plot is just ridiculous, the scenes are just thrown at you with no action, no start or ending of any scene.. it's just random idiots with make-up that scream in some plane.. The "special effects" ( Spielberg would laugh his ass off ) are horrible, the yellow eye contact lenses are cute though.. I have to admin that i couldn't bear to watch it to the end. The scene where the great scientist Bennett was holding for dear life by the engine body was too much for me.. I'm sorry for my bad English.. i am from Romania ( and this is my first post ). I had to sign up just to make a comment on this movie because i just can't believe that this is a movie released in 2007.

I didn't know ANYTHING about this movie until last night. Expected a crappy low budget ripoff of "Snakes on a Plane". But since this was made BEFORE "Snake" I guess it's the other way around ;) Well as I said I expected a crappy movie in the Sci-Fi Channel mold. But what I got was an EXTREMELY entertaining action/horror that puts this Zombie flick on the same top 10 list as Rodrigues "Planet Terror".

Sure it's a low budget movie but I doesn't feel like it. I would gladly have paid for a ticket to seen it on the big screen.

Now THIS is how you make use of a limited budget.

We got HUGE amounts of Zombies and gore (okey not like Planet Terror but plenty enough) and lot's of action and explosions, especially in the last half hour.

What I also liked was the characters. Usually in low budget movies we get the most crappiest and annoying actors on the planet, but in this one they can ACTUALLY act, and most of them are likable as well.

Not unlike Snakes on a Plane where you HATED them all ;)

The Zombie make-up FX were brilliant and they were the crazy brutal type of zombies as in the remake of Dawn of the Dead. They actually made me jump a few times as well. Now THAT doesn't happen to often ;)

Except for a few CGI shots this have the look and feel of a real theater movie. Shame it went the Direct to Video route with a crappy cover.

This is a movie that deserves an following.

So look it up folks. It's a classic :)

bury my brain in an airplane toilet! this is definitely one of the most excrescent "motion pictures" ever. i love movies of any kind, the good, the bad and the ugly... !but! for this one you must be be really stoned beyond belief (i can't even imagine the necessary drug for that - Special K perhaps?) to suffer this completely boring and uninspired botch. none-dimensional characters, ridiculous nativity play-like actors tumble through a goofy mess of a script, that must be written by jagged hillbilly-teens. there are only 43 seconds of any entertainment value, randomly distributed over the whole movie, so spare your time and watch another one, such as "shaun of the dead" and have real fun.

I was very skeptical whether I should spend my time on watching this movie. First of all it has a very cheesy name, sounds like another cheap remake and DVD cover looks also not that good. But being a fan of zombie movies I decided to give it a try. I started watching it and first 35 minutes were just as I expected the whole movie to be, but surprisingly after first 35-40 minutes it gets much better, special effects, plot and even acting gets better, well acting gets better because all amateur actors are killed by zombies. I would say you can fast forward first 25 minutes, since nothing much happens in the beginning.

I liked this movie and would recommend it to all zombie fans :)

On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a special container: a woman infected with a virus that was designed to be a biological weapon. When she escapes her restraints, every man, woman and child is in danger of becoming a flesh-eating member of the mile high club.

What I find interesting about this film is how much I went through great lengths to avoid it. I saw advertisements on the internet and turned away. I saw it at my local video store and couldn't bring myself to rent it (instead picking up "Dead Silence"). My problem was that I figured there's no way you can knock off "Night of the Living Dead" (a classic) and "Snakes on a Plane" (a train wreck) at the same time and possibly have a decent film. Then it shows up in my mail a few days later from my editor, and I am doomed to review it. Giving in to fate (why fight it?) I watched "Flight" the same night... and loved almost every minute of it.

The only connection to "Night of the Living Dead" is the inclusion of zombies. But these are closer to "Return of the Living Dead" zombies, I would imagine, because they are caused by a virus to be used as a weapon by the military, rather than from some alien source (if I recall the mythologies correctly). But it has many of the elements of "Snakes on a Plane" -- only done better. The celebrity (a golf pro), the flight crew, the couple in the bathroom... this film surpasses "Snakes", despite the fact "Snakes" has more nudity and Sam Jackson's immortal line.

The crew and passengers are faced off against the military and zombies, a criminal, as well as a massive storm. So you have a fair share of both internal and external conflicts and threats. Any one of them could kill every one on board. And unlike the snakes, you don't just see another snake every few minutes -- the variety of problems in this film keeps the adrenaline pumping and the suspense at a peak.

There was some subplot about budding romance and another one about cheating lovers. But fortunately these never really go anywhere. I think they would have been distracting and cliché, so I was pleased to see them take a back seat to the action. I like action and I like cogent, clever films... I don't have time for excessive relationships in my horror, thank you.

Let me finish up by saying the blood and gore is pretty darn good. You get your blood, you get your gore. And for the low budget, they do a pretty impressive job with it. Faces half ripped off, body parts missing... jugulars torn from throats. Oh, don't worry. They didn't try to make this half-donkeyed by any means. You get what you paid for -- plenty of zombies overflowing on a plane.

Let down by "Snakes on a Plane"? Love zombies? Love confined spaces to be fighting horrible creatures? Love action? I think you'll really dig this picture. Granted, I was probably partially drunk at the time, but it made my night in a way no other film could have done. It's worth the rent and maybe even the purchase (the two commentary tracks make this three films in one)...

Bad, very bad...from the dialogue to the acting to the effects - as expected. The film offers nothing new to the genre, just a screaming, squealing gore fest.

This is a rather enjoyable simple horror movie, that was obviously not made to win any awards but to bring some good entertainment instead.

The movie is filled with all stereotypical shallow characters you would expect. I mean, OF COURSE there also just happens to be a convict aboard with a cop attached to him, pretty stewardesses, a couple of scientist, quarrelsome young couples, oh and even a nun and a couple of other weird bunch of characters of which you never get to know their names. simply because you just don't care.

No the movie doesn't feature much surprises. It's a pretty formulaic movie with all of the elements you would expect. Nothing happens as a real surprise and it's one of those movies in which you pretty much know already who is going to die and live. You know exactly in advance what you're going to get when you watch a movie like this, with a title such as this one has.

It takes a bit too long for the movie for the horror to kick really in but this has obviously to do with the movie its restrained budget and also story. I mean, if things started off right along in this movie, it would had probably only had been about an hour long. I mean, how much good and interesting can you come up with a movie that's completely set aboard a plane.

About halve way through the action really kicks in and the gloves are off! The fun really starts then when the zombie like creatures are unleashed among the passengers and get on a killing spree and more and more zombies are reborn. It then most becomes obvious what an unpretentious simply B-horror this actually really is. The movie turns into a pure gore-fest, with the one graphic killing after the other.

It's a good visual looking movie. At least it's not clumsy or anything and everything looks actually quite convincing and professional. Also the make-up and gore is pretty good looking and shall definitely please the genre fans. It definitely knows how to make use of its limited budget!

As you would expect the acting isn't much special but this also has everything to do with the simple script and formulaic dialog. Still there are some decent well known actors in the movie, like Erick Avari and Raymond J. Barry.

The story is kept at all times simple and is of course far fetched, silly and far from believable. But like I said before, how much interesting can you come up with for a movie that is completely set aboard a flying plane? And uh, firing guns and blowing up gas tanks in a plane without crashing down or even create a hole in the plane? I think that pretty much sums up how serious you have to take this movie.

This movie is simply good and enjoyable for what it is, a deliberate simple gory B-horror flick, featuring a whole bunch of zombies. It serves its purpose really well and effectively! A great movie in its genre, that is very well worth watching, at least if you're in these type of movies of course.

7/10

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Can't believe a previous poster is nit-picking over firing machine guns on planes/decompression etc - It's a ZOMBIE flick, not a documentary FFS! in other words, the filmmakers have decided to diverge somewhat from reality.

Go watch this - it's a fantastic mixture of zombie and air-plane disaster film. It'll give you a few frights, loads of laughs and that's more than a lot of other films. If you're looking for the perfect film to see with your friends & choke on your popcorn - this is the baby!

Just don't expect it to turn up anytime soon as an in-flight movie, OK...

Most people look over straight to DVD titles unless you frequent regularly to the local DVD hire shop.

I came upon the title by random looking about for new horror flicks, been a fan of zombie horrors such as day of the dead, dawn of the dead, night of the living dead and so on I thought from the title it sounded like a new twist on a theme which has been done so many times before, of course as Id never heard of the movie I was bound to be sceptical on how it would look and more so how crap the acting and plot line would be.

Surprisingly I can say Im quite pleased with the movie and would go as far to say considering low budgets it works really well, the acting is strong and the plot works well "much better than the apposed 'snakes on a plane' pish" The effects are as good as any other zombie flick I've ever seen. Overall I would say to any fan of this genre get it watched and to those just interested in the slightest to stop been so dubious and give it a go also, you too could be nicely surprised :D

Now that the producers of zombie movies have done it in the air, is there any place left where they haven't done it? What about underwater? They could use the same script but on a submarine. I dunno, though. I think hysterical civilian passengers trump hysterical sailors. Still, it's a thought.

This movie seemed a little too long for me. I guess there wasn't enough humor and real scares. The producers needed to either cut 15 minutes where nothing was funny or scary or re-do some of these scenes. About 3 quarters into this thing (maybe earlier), I got weary. After all, one can take just so much "Grrr! Grrr! Grrr!" -or whatever the hell these undead were saying- until they become tedious.

I'm giving this movie 4 stars out of 10 (one of the stars is for Kristen Kerr who should immediately be signed up for toothpaste commercials) which means that if you don't catch it, it's no great loss. I suspect that early teens will find this more interesting than the rest of us seasoned horror fans. I don't want to mislead you, however, it DID have some winning moments (Alas! Too few!) so it's not a complete dud. Check it out if someone offers to pay your way. You'll get a chuckle or two, and about three-quarters in, a little nap time. Love, Boloxxxi.