Leofwine_draca DEAD KANSAS is a very low budget science fiction horror movie with a post-apocalyptic setting. It was originally released as a series of web episodes which gives the story an episodic feel. Unfortunately, as with most independent fare being made today, the whole thing is too cheap to be taken seriously. The worst thing about the extended filming schedule is that the lead actress changes around the halfway mark, which is pretty much unforgivable in a production like this. Me, I would have given up with it, but instead they recast and soldier on.The good news is that the second actress is better than the first. Otherwise, we're in a world which attempts to mix Romero-style zombie horror with some MAD MAX-style criminal gangs. None of it is very convincing or indeed credible. The performances vary by cast member. It's not the worst film I've seen, but very far from the best.

Theo Robertson I recently got a private message from someone asking if they'd seen their film DEAD KANSAS , "it is the first zombie film to use Point Of View (POV) zombies - in other words, the camera is the "zombie's eye" in some scenes." . Actually this isn't true because a while ago I saw a short film featuring a zombie apocalypse where a human witnesses a zombie attack , gets bitten and they become a zombie where the human beings are now the antagonists , the title of which escapes me .Nevertheless I wrote back I'd be happy to review though warned my reviews are always honest . Unfortunately I've got to keep to my word and say I did not like DK one bit I noticed there's a large number of external reviews from other sites and the vast majority of them seem rather kind , possibly because they don't want to upset the feelings of someone who has gone to the time and trouble of politely asking reviewers to take a look at their movie . It's obviously a project made out of love and hopefully the crew had a lot of fun making because as a neutral viewer I didn't have much fun watching it . The budget is non existent which isn't a criticism but this means you've got to cast mainly amateurs in key roles and they're just not good enough to carry the film . In fact in one bizarre segment the female lead turns in to a completely different actress reinforcing this is some modern day Ed Wood type production . This puzzled me so much that I had to check the trivia section to find out what was going on and found out several interesting things about DK . One is that it was originally envisaged as a short film , then blossomed in to a web series and eventually got re-edited in a near feature length film . The filming took place over a period of months which along with the lack of budget explains its disjointed car crash like quality . I hope I haven't reduced to tears the production member who asked me to review their film but I'm afraid I didn't like it . Sorry and please don't hate me .

jimbob spence I love a Grindhouse movie and this one is close enough to grind house to really like. Joe McQueen does a great job and the rest of the cast is really great to. I would watch it over and over! Really love how they did the zombie thing. It gives a whole new approach for zombie apocalypse movies. Can't wait to see what Aaron Carter is gonna do next. Would really love to see him team up with someone and make a grind house set. I know it would be awesome! Zombie movies done right. Give it a chance and watch it. Don't just knock before you watch. It's B rate but at it's finest. If you like a good B rate movie and grind house movies. Then you will like this one.

ASouthernHorrorFan Aaron K. Carter's post-zompocalypse film is probably one of the oddest experiences I have had watching indie/homegrown movies. The story focuses on a Father/daughter drama of survival post outbreak, like way post. Very little society is left and most of the "rottens" have rotted away. All that is left is bands of people fighting one another to carve out dominance over the Kansas terrain. Throw in that only daughter seems to be immune from the virus that is blamed by the whole of female society for its destruction, and you have an old school male dominated saga unfolding. First off I want to explain why I said this is one of the oddest viewing experiences I have had. "Dead Kansas" is by no means a strong indie zombie film, nor is it a strong story. There is just so much that noticeably goes wrong in every act- the writing, line delivery, timing, the characters – it all is just a off. And yet, there is some hidden entity that possesses this film's atmosphere and energy that forced me to watch. I found small moments of gold in here that made me highly entertained. Plus some of the cast are nice surprises that legitimize "Dead Kansas". Irwin Keyes, Ben Woolf both add something special to "Dead Kansas". The special effects are almost non existent since most is suggestive and off camera. Even the zombies are never really since except for once. It is a bit of a let down but in a genre over saturated with material already there is really nothing that "Dead Kansas" could have done to add to the situation. Still it would have been nice to see them a bit more. I get why Carter went with the concept that he did. It is creative and artist to place the viewer inside the eyes of the zombie by having the scenes switch to black & white. Plus with the scene that an actual zombie shows up on screen, that moment and how it pertains to the story and characters in the moment aims for profundity. Overall "Dead Kansas" is gonna disappoint a lot of people who set out to watch the film. It is on the lower quality side of indie film making-not sure if they had a budget or not. Didn't look like they did. The story is "been-there-done-that", and the acting really should have been reigned in more on several of these characters. All that said, the oddity of nature that accompanies these characters, the off-tempo line deliveries, and the sound track somehow put off a Fred Olen Ray/Gil Bettman vibe. By the last scene I actually found myself into the surviving characters and excited that they left the story open for a sequel.