[BD Review] ‘Dead Season’ Is An Unoriginal Mess

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Posted by David Harley on August 07, 2012 @ 8:11pm
Category: Movies / Home Video

Reviewed by Michael Erb

Think about every piece of zombie media to come out in the last decade. Consider the moments, ideas, and characters that made those zombie stories memorable. Now, imagine what it’s like to see every one of those things haphazardly strung together into something resembling a story. That mess is Dead Season.

A zombie apocalypse survivor calling himself Elvis is making his way toward the ocean. He coordinates with fellow survivor Tweeter over a ham radio to meet up and journey together to an island off the coast of Florida. The idea is to go to a remote island where there can’t be many zombies, if any at all. They get a boat and find a tropical paradise that, of course, is far more disturbing once they get to land. The duo is saved by a group of survivors, led by a grizzled man named Kurt Conrad. The inhabitants come together to gather supplies, kill the undead, and generally try to survive. However, once food becomes scarce, they see that man is the real monster. READ MORE