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Dead Men Walking
A Review by Jon Walmsley - trioxin.wordpress.com
Dead Men Walking is a particularly gruesome little number taking place
solely within a prison. A prisoner obviously infected with some sort
of horrible disease (in this case, a biological zombie toxin) is
checked into the joint, and promptly sent off to the medic to be
checked over. After numerous highly bloody vomiting sessions he is
locked away in solitary to slowly and disgustingly turn from infected
human to rabid zombie. As this involves rather a lot of noise the
guards pop over to check on him, although this doesn't go too well for
them. Thus begins the mass infection of the whole prison, leaving the
remaining guards, warden and a female CDC officer to fight for
survival while trying to stop any infected from leaving the building
for fear of infecting the whole world.
Yes, it's a slightly different take on the standard Zombie Siege as
the zombies are already within the building to start with, but that is
about as original as it gets here. It's the gore that this movie goes
for, it just does what it does rather effectively. (albeit without
being particularly bothered about adding anything new). Infected
people spew forth gallons of disgusting blood, Guts are ripped out and
devoured aplenty, gunshots leave bloody trails up the walls, arms are
ripped off and eaten… you know, just the standard zombie gore. By
no
means is this boring though, at least not for the first 45 minutes,
however once everyone who could get infected has, and the survivors
have run around the prison for a while it gets pretty tired. There
isn't really anywhere else for this film to go. Step 1 - begin the
infection, step 2 - chase and slaughter everyone, step 3…. um, well
almost everyone is dead, so lets end the film in standard zombie-film
manner.
It certainly is gory, reasonably well acted and directed and the
script is pretty good considering the cliche nature of the film, but
everything just kind of dries up towards the end. (Except for the
blood, naturally. That just keeps on flowing).