He pairs with an African soldier named Daniel and the two form an uneasy partnership that really does make the film a valuable road trip movie for a while. I had a good time wondering where the duo would end up next and if they would ever trust one another in the midst of the carnage. As mentioned the Ford brothers fill every frame with some form of a walker, so the suffocation of their rising numbers takes its toll creating an effective sense of dread and bleak hopelessness. Like "Dawn of the Dead," the walkers are nearly everywhere one turns and their numbers are endless. As they creep and crawl along the sand, they become enemies that are not to be reckoned with, even when traveling in heavy numbers. As a lover of the post-apocalyptic sub-genre, I had a great time with "The Dead" and was pleased to see the Halloween season greeted with a wonderful zombie film that takes pages from films like "Dawn of the Dead," "Day of the Dead" and even "Zombi." The hopeless, endless picture painted by the Ford brothers will keep zombie loyalists sleepless for days and it's a surefire bet this gem will be appreciated by folks tired of the dead running around and bouncing off walls.

A bonafide gem of a zombie picture, "The Dead" is a dread filled homage to the classic zombie pictures of the seventies and eighties filled with guts, gore, and grue galore. Be sure to check this jewel out where ever it's available.