Dug Up

Hey everyone... Dug Up will finally get you to appreciate what so many halfbaked overblown cable shows never accomplish. This one portrays the ridiculousness of 'zombie' films as they should be done. Over the top campy, hammy glory, and you won't be disappointed. If you like throw backs to the 70's, 80's and 90's camp horror films & comedy's then you'll love this. Great performances and redneck humor at its best. The final conflict with "Dukes of Hazard" stylized knock 'em dead and William Shockley channeling Kristofferson from "Blade" is hilarious.

"It's rednecks versus zombies and it's not a match of wits!" Horror "comedy" about a zombie outbreak in a small rural town. Three young grave robbers looking for buried treasure instead find a curious looking contraption that has a dial on it. We later fine out that this device is in fact a Necrometer - can't say that I've ever heard of one before - and it is used to raise the dead, which our dimwits have already done. I like seeing decaying zombies rise from their graves and to the film's credit we get to see this. And the ghouls' makeup is half decent too, though the CGI used for bloody gunshots etc looks very cheap. I also liked the fact that the lead guy explains that these are undead zombies as opposed to viral ones, therefore being bitten by one will not turn that person into a zombie. What lets this movie down big time for me is firstly the juvenile humour, farting and sex gags are only funny for so long until they become repetitive and boring. For me this happened very early on in the plot. Secondly there is the acting, it ranges from bad to abysmal. The zombie-comedy sub genre has been done to death, most are mediocre or below, this is by no means the worst that I have seen but I certainly won't be digging it up again.

Seriously? It says it's a zombie movie but it's the furthest thing from that. This is basically the early start of the, all southerners are white supremacists/hicks. The accents are just so far over the top that you want to rent a trailer just to say you've got good coverage on the white stereotype that seems to be common these days. The acting is unbearable, the girls are just, yuck. And the guys are basically what you've seen in movies like Deliverance. I mean what's the point? Nobody believes this is real American culture. There isn't any town in the USA that behaves this way. But of course a zombie movie wouldn't be complete without a bunch of Neo-Nazis right? I mean seriously?

Not a masterpiece. But it has a few funny bits. The best was early on when the sheriff is at the location of a deceased man, and it's a sight gag that you might miss if you look away. There are a few other funny bits and the movie knows what it is and does not take itself seriously. Decent zombies, goofy, and for what it is, in its class, it's a solid 8. Well, what else can I say about it? The effects budget was certainly decent. The characters are stereotypes, but so what? The whole idea of the main male character visiting his sister at work was disturbingly hysterical to me and I'm really out of things to say. If you like bad movies, you'll like it a lot. Even though its on the cusp of just being good dumb fun.

DUG UP is your usual indie zombie comedy which feels a little better than some of the braindead efforts that this genre conjures up. The reason for that is that the script isn't totally mindless and the main three actors do seem invested in their roles. The story takes a while to get going and the first half is too obsessed with showing skin to get on with the plotting, but the low rent zombie nonsense in the second half is a bit better. There's the requisite cheap gore effects and some mannered acting bringing to life characters that are more caricature than real person. By the standards of mainstream cinema it's not very good, but by the standards of an indie it's not so bad.