Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

nickboldrini This commits the main fault of any comedy, in that it fails to be funny. The Zombie and Cowboy action is ok, and the special effects acceptable (its obviously low budget) - but its only vaguely amusing in places. That may be a matter of taste, but you have been warned.

Paul Andrews Undead or Alive is set in the Old Wild West & starts as US army deserter Elmer Winslow (James Denton) rides into a small town, after getting into a fight with a Cowboy named Luke Rudd (Chris Kattan) the two are thrown in jail by a corrupt Sheriff who also steal all their money. Elmer manages to pick the jail door lock & escapes with Luke who then both rob the Sheriff in order to get their money back & a bit of compensation. Meanwhile a local man named Ben (Brian Posehn) has been turned into a brain eating zombie & starts spreading the virus turning the rest of the town into brain eating zombies, now infected the zombie Sheriff, his Deputy & a posse of men head after Elmer & Luke spreading the zombie plague wherever they go...Also known as Undead or Alive: A Zomedy this awful comedy horror Western was written & directed by Glasgow Phillips & is a stark reminder to me that I really should stop watching low budget straight to video horror, or at least choose my films a little better. Right, the problems with Undead or Alive are numerous but as a horror comedy it falls way short on both counts & as a Western it does nothing other than to set it's story in the Old Wild West. I found Undead or Alive spectacularly funny, the opening scene where various pieces of text explain some background & one reads 'for those who don't like reading it's nearly over' or something like that is just plain insulting & is a film that feels absolutely desperate for laughs before it's even started. Then a sequence in which a zombie wanders around & steps into a bucket & on a rake which bizarrely only comes up to his knee is some incredibly unfunny zombie slapstick routine. As I see comments here on the IMDb describing Undead or Alive as funny I would honestly like someone to name one funny sequence in this laugh free film, just one. The one-liners are awful, the slapstick three Stooges routines are awful, the visual gags are awful & I just can't think of one even slightly amusing moment in this misfire of a horror comedy. The character's are awful, a sheepish idiotic Cowboy who keeps a picture of his Horse in a locket & a army deserter, an evil Sheriff & his dumb comedy relief Deputy & a town of faceless idiots who get about two minutes of screen time. The only bright spark is Sue the native Indian girl who has at least some personality & is quite attractive to look at but the pluses stop there. The pacing & plotting are terrible & it's as predictable as they come.Considering that Robert Kurtzman was the special make-up effect producer, just look at some of his other credits, the make-up here is surprisingly tatty. The zombies look awful & despite what you may read the gore is limited to a few blood splatters & some irritating machine gun edited flesh biting where you can barely see anything anyway because it's edited so quickly. Undead or Alive is just a spectacular misfire on all fronts from the lame humour & jokes to the shoddy make-up & badly edited gory bits. I really am trying to understand why Undead or Alive has any positive comments for it on the IMDb but I just can't, I really can't. Like a lot of modern films there's a bit of CGI here at the end when a fort blows up & it looks terrible, this is the sort of computer effect you expect in a computer game.Apparently filmed in Santa Fe in New Mexico the films looks quite nice shot on location the production values are alright as far as the sets & costumes go but if I wanted that sort of thing I'd watch a proper Western, wouldn't I? Like much of everything else the acting sucks, the two leads in particular are annoying.Undead or Alive is a horror comedy that fails to deliver on either front in a big way, totally unfunny & with surprisingly poor make-up effects I just don't see what this has going for it. Every joke & gag is bottom of the barrel stuff & the horror is reduced to silly slapstick that just looks terrible.

eleusis2 Call me crazy, but I didn't expect this Western/Zombie/Comedy film to be a cinematic masterpiece. Maybe that is why I didn't take this film too seriously. Go figure. My only hope going into this movie was that I might have a few laughs, and I did. More than a few, actually. The movie managed to keep me pretty well amused throughout, and I'm not easily amused. More than once, I found myself laughing in one scene and grossed-out in the next. At times, I was even laughing and grossed-out at the same time. Perhaps these abrupt changes of emotion are part of what made the movie so entertaining to me. Or, maybe it was the clever writing and the great casting. As expected, Kattan was funny and Denton was good. However, the supporting cast in this movie definitely held their own. Kudos to the casting director.So, basically, if you can keep from taking this movie too seriously and you're in the mood for a few laughs, I think you'll be pleased.

madrobotstudios I've seen bad films, and I mean BAD films. I fully expected this movie to suck like an event horizon, but... It really wasn't as bad as all that.It's a zombie flick, set out west with supernatural zombies. Geronimo puts a curse on the white man, and when they're bitten by the undead, they too become zombified.The acting is good in this, nobody's phoning it in, and the only thing that was kind of iffy on this thing was the story itself. Had they played this as either serious, or as a straight comedy, it would have been good. I think they were trying for a balance of both, but that's the only thing that kind of suffers. Chris Kattan is a funny guy, and has some good lines in this, as well as James Denton, and the female lead. There are some plot holes that are small, but when you pare it all away, it's still better than Diary Of The Dead, and well worth a rental.