Platypuschow
Raiders Of The Living Dead is rather infamous and widely considered to be one of the worst zombie movies ever made. I can confidently say, I agree.It's right there with The Zombinator (2012) and Hsien Of The Dead (2012) It wants so badly to be a Return Of The Living Dead movie but fails every stage of the way.The plot is bare bones and is pretty terrible, the movie is full of incredible amounts of filler scenes, the soundtrack is laughable and there are barely even any zombies anyway.Raiders Of The Living Dead would certainly fall into my bottom 100 movies ever made, it has not one single redeeming feature and was a chore to endure.The Good: Nope The Bad: CGI is awful Loads of blatant filler scenesQuestionable soundtrackToo few zombies for a zombie movie Things I Learnt From This Movie: The 3 Stooges scene was more entertaining than anything the movie creators did
Leofwine_draca
Oh, I thought, that's an interesting title. It's guaranteed to be some cheesy rip-off of the Romero films. When I received the film, though, was I in for a letdown. I think this film was shot on a video camera, it was so wretched. A guy investigates murders at a local factory and finds out that it is due to zombies or something. I didn't know. The clip they showed from THE THREE STOOGES was better than the entire film in this case. Endless shots of a guy walking around or driving his car do not a movie make.It was so hard to sit through, I nearly had to stop it, but I battled it through to the ending, where the film nearly redeems itself by having a fight between humans and zombies at an abandoned factory. Even this falls flat by having atrocious camera-work. The one good thing in the film is the incredibly bad special effects of a laser gun a young boy has (which, incidentally, fries his hamster - something I wasn't too happy about). I think they drew on the film. This no-budget dud is one of the most wretched films you'll ever see.
jari-p-puranen
I am a fan of bad movies and regularly buy more movie waste, but this was just too much even for a freak. I'm not even sure if this was worse or better than Manos but in my opinion these two should be the bottom two! First 15 minutes is just random stuff happening. There is a truck and then there is a nuclear power plant. And some guys. There is also a car chase. Here is where you take the DVD-cover and look at it again and check the name of the movie. "Raiders of the Living Dead", OK. Then you want to check if the disc you put in your player is the correct one. And these scenes actually were the best this movie has to offer. Basically the rest is just a big plot hole. If you aren't on a mission to watch through all of top 100 Worst of IMDb, do not waste your time with this.
Contrarian
As an avid Zombie movie fan, I bought this with hi-hopes of fun, gore and shambling ghouls. I got a shambling movie, no gore, and no fun (with the exception of the kid-hero frying his hamster with a laser gun (made from a cunningly converted laser disc player). That alone saved the movie from a score of 1. On the whole it looks like school kids on a budget of their accumulated paper-round savings put the movie together.Even as a self confessed zombie fan I could only watch it once. In need of a second opinion I handed it on to another zombie fan. He watched it once too; then threw it in the bin for me.
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