IMDb user comments for
Dead Meat (2004) Plus avec IMDbPro »

Filtre:

Meilleur Chronologique prolific Ils ont aimé Ils ont détesté Cacher les spoilers:

Page 1 sur 4:

[1] [2] [3] [4]

Index

38 commentaires au total

---

12 utilisateurs sur 19 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Low budget gore with all the successful elements, 22 avril 2005

Auteur : Chris Docker (eyeforfilm) de Scotland, Royaume-Uni

A young couple accidentally run over a pedestrian in rural Ireland. If we didn't know from the opening shots or advance publicity that this was to be a zombie movie, we are soon left in no doubt. Comments on the car radio about mad cow disease dispense with the 'how' problem quite efficiently and the rest of the movie just gets on with being a nice gory tribute to the genre with plenty of Irish humour thrown in.

The pedestrian gets up and walks after being run over, then attacks the driver. Helena heads for a cottage, fights off more zombies, teams up with another 'normal' human, fights off more zombies, finds someone with a mini-bus, fights off more zombies etc. You get the idea. Generally speaking, originality is not the strong card in Dead Meat – everything is recycled, from moons going behind clouds, to scary castles, to ghoulish faces coming out of the bogs silhouetted by torchlight, creepy crawlies on a plate of food or a decomposing body, to the story line itself and final denouement. Dead Meat's winning streak is firstly that it uses the classic elements in a way that is almost deferential to films like Bad Taste, Evil Dead and Night of the Living Dead, secondly that it is well edited to be genuinely scary, and thirdly that it uses heavy doses of inimitable Irish humour.

Much credit goes to Conor McMahon who wrote, directed and edited the film on a budget of about £125,000. One of the leading characters, the mini-van driver who is described as 'slightly normal', is very memorable as a the sort of jovial Irishman who picks an argument with everyone first (living or dead) to decide if he likes them. I also enjoyed the (at times rather 'home-made'-looking) special effects - these rarely missed an opportunity to show the variety of horribleness portrayed by different zombies or hacked off body parts. For sheer entertainment, Dead Meat is a must for horror fans. Other audiences may have problems with the poor sound quality on some of the voices, the Irish accents (dialogue is not too important but adds to the humour), or the unashamed purveyance of formula, but for an aspiring young director, the signs from this first feature are good.

---

12 utilisateurs sur 19 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Its not what you eat....its WHO you eat, 25 novembre 2004

Auteur : Mark de Irlande

What can I say, DEAD MEAT is excellent. The first true Irish Horror film sets a high standard for all future Irish features to live up to.

A wonderful blend of genuine thrills and over the top humour, DEAD MEAT manages excellently to satisfy all the viewers needs. First and foremost, DEAD MEAT is a film made by horror fans for horror fans. This is what makes this film such a genuine treat.

The basic plot revolves around a cow suffering from mad cow disease breaking out and attacking a farmer. This leads to a new strain of the disease that once infected turns everyone into flesh eating Zombies. The film follows a group of stranded folk and there efforts to make it through the horde of Zombies and make it to safety.

Plot aside, this film succeeds where many other imitators failed due to the fact that it doesn't take itself overly serious, but at the same time refrains from falling into the trap of lame slapstick. This is the directorial debut of Conor McMahon and his work along with the Irish Horrorthon founders, Ed King and Michael Griffin shows a genuine eye for what made all the classic horror films so good.

A mixture of modern humour with the style and atmosphere of classics such as Night of the Living Dead and the many 70's Italian Zombie films this film is guaranteed to delight any fan of the genre (or just enjoyable films in general). Another worthy note is the music which shifts from an eerie score to at times a John Carpenter-esque style. Over analysing the film would only take away from the pure fun and entertainment that this film embodies,

Destined to be a cult classic, Get it, watch it and ENJOY IT!!!

---

3 utilisateurs sur 3 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
What about a crazy cow facing her death through a baseball or a different approach to drive-by's with swinging bats chopping off zombie heads, 15 mars 2006

Auteur : scobbah (scobbah@gmail.com) de Örebro, Suède

One thing is for sure: this one isn't recommended unless you're into the genre. The movie itself feels like something of Peter Jackson's old works, judging of the splatter, the camera work and the neatly applied effects. The plot didn't really catch me and there were a few moments which I just found plain boring here due to the lack of action. At the same time I have to admit that there were some scenes which made me choke of laughter. What about a crazy cow facing her death through a baseball or a different approach to drive-by's with swinging bats chopping off zombie heads. Now that's some joy I tell you. The Irish accent tops it all.

---

9 utilisateurs sur 15 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Silly uninfected humans, tricks are for ZOMBIES, 2 juin 2005

Auteur : Bradford Richardson (bradfordrich@earthlink.net) de Philadelphia

Don't miss DEAD MEAT! You'll never have more fun laughing at the perils of poor humans trying to escape the zombie super-size-me menu. In the same, terrifically coagulated vein as Shawn of the Dead, Dead Meat is a romping, cross country, action, horror, romance that's original, ambitious and resourceful. It's jam-packed with terrifying surprises and cliff-hanger escapes from certain death. I'll tell you this, you'll never look at a vacuum cleaner the same again. Plus, the actors are A-List talent. You'll want to see Marian Araujo, (Helena), again and again. I look forward, with disturbing glee, to the next project from Director - Conor McMahon and his gang; Edward King, Andrew Legge and John Gillooley.

---

2 utilisateurs sur 2 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Okay., 10 avril 2007

Auteur : fedor8 (fedor8@yahoo.com) de Serbie

*** Ce commentaire peut contenir des spoilers ***

A very low-budget Irish film with partly incomprehensible accents. However, it's just a zombie film so the dialogue hardly matters. Time isn't wasted in getting on with the mayhem, no long dull introduction here. But there is nothing new and revolutionary, either (nor does it have to be). And how can there be? Unless you consider the new concept of "sleeping zombies" worth a celebration. The violence is quite silly. I've never seen such soft zombies in any movie before! The blunt end of a mere shovel can be thrown at a zombie – and will PIERCE him straight through, as if he's made of butter. The heroine uses her high-heel shoes to launch them at a zombie's face – and the not-so-sharp heels cut through the face as if it were made of wax, not skin and bone. Apparently the human body softens up, turns to jelly almost, after it's been zombified. These are not meant to be criticisms, I'm just mentioning them for the hell of it.

---

4 utilisateurs sur 6 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Mad Cow Disease Zombies, 22 décembre 2005

Auteur : TheatreX de Louisville, KY

When you think about it, the idea that people eating tainted meat and becoming zombies is really more realistic than a space probe returning from Venus and spreading radiation with the same basic results. That is, if flesh eating zombies were realistic to begin with. A good idea but a pretty low budget, and not that much different really from Night of the Living Dead, despite the Irish location and actors. I guess nailing zombies with a cricket bat is kind of cool though. A woman and her boyfriend or husband are on the road, on vacation, when they hit a man, and when the put him in the back of their car to take him to a town, he suddenly sits up and removes a chunk of the driver's neck, therefore causing him to become a zombie...of course the woman is having none of this and runs for her life, where she meets up with a young man (a gravedigger, to be exact). Eventually they hook up with a man & his wife in a jeep, all the while trying to get to safety. I think I'm going to give this one another chance and watch it again but as much as I wanted to like this I found it to be only so-so. The makers of the film seemed to give a couple nods to Romero here & there, but overall this is low budget and amateurish, and at times the Irish accents are almost indecipherable. OK, but only close, no cigar. 7 out of 10.

---

4 utilisateurs sur 6 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Cheap, cheerful, bloody good fun, 11 octobre 2005

Auteur : paulnewman2001 de Hertford, England

Say what you like about writer/director Conor McMahon's debut, but he knows his walking dead movies from the entrails out.

This loopy, atmospheric and gore-splattered low budget tale set in rural Ireland about mad cow disease jumping to humans and turning them into gut-chomping zombies is teeming with references and visual nods to a dozen other movies.

But whereas Shaun Of The Dead stuck largely with George A Romero's canon, McMahon's clearest inspirations are the brooding autumnal landscapes of The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue, the invention of The Evil Dead and the unhinged splatstick of Peter Jackson's Brain Dead.

The tonal shift between horror and black humour isn't always smooth but McMahon and his enthusiastic cast hurl themselves into it with gusto, whether dwelling gleefully on the obligatory slippery red zombie picnic or ratcheting up the tension for some genuinely harrowing moments.

---

6 utilisateurs sur 10 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Gore and Cult, 4 mai 2006

Auteur : Claudio Carvalho de Rio de Janeiro, Brésil

*** Ce commentaire peut contenir des spoilers ***

The tourist Helena (Marián Araújo) and her mate Martin (David Ryan) are traveling by car through the County of Leitrim, Ireland, when Martin hits a man. He brings the body to his car, and the corpse returns to live and bites him. Helena looks for help in a cottage and is attacked inclusive by Martin. Sooner she realizes that the place is infested of zombies. She meets the gravedigger Desmond (David Muyllaert) and they cross the countryside trying to find a safe place. They meet another couple and they become aware that the mad cow disease has infected humans transforming them in living dead.

"Dead Meat" is a sort of Irish remake of "Night of the Living Dead". Gore and cult, it works very well, with an excellent camera, frantic in the movements, and great make-up and special effects. In some moments, this trash movie is so bloody that recalls Peter Jackson's "Braindead". My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Dead Meat – O Banquete dos Zumbis" ("Dead Meat – The Banquet of the Zombies")

---

1 utilisateurs sur 1 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Low budget Irish zombie film., 16 août 2009

Auteur : Paul Andrews (poolandrews@hotmail.com) de UK

*** Ce commentaire peut contenir des spoilers ***

Dead Meat is set Leitrim county in Ireland where Helena (Marián Araújo) & her boyfriend Martin (David Ryan) are driving through the countryside when they hit a man in the middle of the road, the man dies but doesn't stay dead for long as he comes back as a flesh-eating zombie who takes a bite out of Martin's neck. Helena seeks help in a nearby cottage but also finds zombies there as Martin dies & comes back as a zombie too. As Helena desperately searches for help she meets local farmer Desmond (David Muyllart), they both decide to team up & work together to try & escape the zombie infected countryside...

This Irish production was written & directed by Conor McMahon & jumped on the bandwagon started by the likes of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Dawn of the Dead (2004), 28 Days Later... (2002) & Resident Evil (2002) all of which saw an upturn in the popularity of zombie films. Having said that Dead Meat probably owes more to the George A. Romero 'Dead' series of films, to be honest I have to say that while Dead Meat isn't the worst example of a zombie film it's hardly anything to get excited about. The script starts off like a straight Night of the Living Dead (1968) rip-off with a man & woman attacked by a zombie, the man is killed, the woman runs off for help & finds a farmhouse as the zombie menace increases & there's not that much more to it as Helena & Desmond spend the majority of the rest of the film wandering around the countryside fighting the odd zombie in order to get to an old fort which seems like an idea used by the filmmakers because of the location rather than any meaningful narrative reason. The so-called twist ending makes little sense, it's never clear why help wouldn't arrive in Leitrim for six to eight hours since Ireland really isn't that big & if there are flesh-eating zombies everywhere why would you just stop in the middle of the night, light a fire & just sit there? At under 80 minutes at least it's short & has a good pace about it but it's all rather forgettable with flat character's including one who has a horrible thick Irish accent which makes it virtually impossible to understand what he is saying.

The set-pieces are dull with a few boring zombie attacks & the gore is disappointing with a few decapitations, some impalement's, someones eye is sucked out with a vacuum cleaner & some blood splatter but nothing w haven't already seen before & the special effects are fairly poor with some terrible zombie make-up. McMahon clearly pays homage or rips-off other (better) films such as Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (1978) as a zombie is killed with a screwdriver in the ear, Day of the Dead (1985) as a character has his arm chopped off after being bitten & the wound is burned shut, there are several gliding POV shots like those seen in The Evil Dead (1982) & when Helena nearly gets a pick-axe in the face you can't help but think of Lucio Fulci's zombie flick The City of the Living Dead (1980). This isn't scary, there's no tension or suspense & with the bare minimum of story (people walking around countryside for 80 minutes) there's not much here to recommend beyond one or two gore effects, a decent pace & a thankfully brief duration.

Filmed on location in County Leitrim in Ireland the film does at times look quite nice & fairly professional but at other times it screams cheap low budget shot on digital video camcorder eyesore. The acting is poor although none of the actors are given anything to work with & the character's are very one dimensional.

Dead Meat is alright, it passes the time & it has one or two reasonable moments but a complete lack of character's or story doesn't help, neither do the poor make-up effects & a seemingly random ending set inside a castle. Hard to recommend but I've seen worse.

---

1 utilisateurs sur 1 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
Was really good for a very low-budgeted Irish zombie film., 2 novembre 2005

Auteur : badgrrlkane de Irving, TX

*** Ce commentaire peut contenir des spoilers ***

Pretty cool little horror film from the land of green valleys & the wee folk.No Name stars acted well. The rugby or whatever kind of coach he was, was funny through most of it. And the mad Cows killing & eating the humans was a cool way to change the usual zombie story lines. Is no way near as good as Shaun of The Dead as it follows in the same vein & is not a scary horror/zombie film at all. The plots is a cool spin on how the zombie plague starts with the dreaded "MAD COW DISEASE" as the cause of it all. Had a lot of really humorous to downright funny parts too it.If you like really gory horror there's may-be 1 to 2 parts that may wet your appetite. Other than that the gore was light for a zombie film. *** out of *****

---

---

Page 1 sur 4:

[1] [2] [3] [4]

Ajouter un autre commentaire

---

Liens liés

Plot summary	Notes	Revues externes
Plot keywords	Principaux Détails	Your user comments
Your vote history