REVIEW: Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane
Move over Snakes on a Plane it’s time for Zombies to invade the airspace in Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane.
Scientists running from the CIA have smuggled some deadly cargo aboard a transatlantic flight to Pairs. The cargo involves a genetically engineered virus in an infected body. When the plane hits turbulence flying through a storm the zombie cargo is freed and the bloody carnage begins.
The action goes right to the plane as the film starts where we meet the crew; a retiring pilot, the stewardesses, the scientist team, young couples screwing around, a cop handcuffed to a prisoner and an unusual TSA agent. The stage is set of our heroes and zombie chow. With all the introductions to these people and a detailed back-story of the zombie infection there it’s a slow build up, but ultimately leads to an extreme gore fest.
Being trapped in the confined space of a plane the film delivers with a lot of blood splatter with zombies breaking through unlikely places as the mayhem begins. These zombies look awesome, they move fast, howl a sort of dinosaur cry and have glowing yellow eyes, they go right for the throat adding more and more undead passengers to the mix. The final showdown is like a video game where zombies pop up into view out of ducts, from behind seats and the survivors with guns take them down. Luckily for those on board guns and ammo were readily available proving it’s good to be on a flight with a cop and TSA agent!
This is a highly entertaining B-Movie and a worthy addition to the zombie genre. The cast of genre actors helped make it so, with Erick Avari as Dr. Bennett, Dale Midkiff as Dr. Thorp, Kevin J O’Connor as prisoner Frank and Richard Tyson as the TSA agent.
Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane has been playing at various film festivals and now it comes to DVD on October 2. For any zombie fan this film is worth watching, there’s lots of blood, lots of gore and some jump worthy moments. It’s the kind of movie you watch with a lot of friends so you can really enjoy the more comedic splatter filled moments. I got to see it on a big screen with an audience and I’m ready to take the flight and watch the film again once it’s out. On a scale of 1-5 (5 being the best) Flight of The Living Dead gets a 4 in my book.
The DVD will also include:
• Feature commentary with director Scott Thomas and producer David Shoshan
• Feature commentary with IGN.com editors
• Outtakes reel
• 16x9 widescreen (1.85) version of the film
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and English 2.0 Stereo Surround
• English DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete Track
• English & Spanish subtitles
• Closed captions
• Animated menus
*DVD special features subject to change.