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Zombies of Undead
Undead is an Australian zombie film with a science fiction twist: the aliens who appear during the outbreak are trying to cure it. A handful of survivors shelter with a gun collector who claims to have been abducted. Reviews were poor.1
First appeared
2003
Released 2003Source work
Undead (2003)
Michael and Peter SpierigMade in
Australia
What causes it
Something from outer space
Meteorites carrying an alien infection fall on a small Australian town.How you become one
Contact with a meteorite, or with someone already infected.
Weak spots
- shot to the head
When did it first appear?
Released 2003
field notes
What the sources say
1
Aliens arrive to contain the outbreak, spraying a rain-like chemical that cures the infected1
2
They lift townspeople into the clouds and hold them in suspended animation1
3
The Spierig brothers wrote, produced, directed and edited it for about a million Australian dollars1
4
Won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2003 Melbourne festival1
5
Roger Ebert said it was not bad enough to be good1
Sources
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