Dead & Deader

Plot synopsis:
After communications to a small medical outpost in Cambodia was cut off, a U.S. special-forces squad was sent to investigate. After they failed to report back, a second squad is sent. As they approach the outpost, they are attacked by zombies. After killing the zombies, they are attacked by an infected researcher who commits suicide with a grenade. Second-in-command Lieutenant Bobby Quinn survives with heavy injuries. He radios for a medivac airlift, then falls unconscious.
Quinn wakes up on an exam table at Ft. Preston Army Base. The shocked coroner, Dr, Flutie, explains that he arrived in a body-bag the previous evening and had been pronounced DOA, as he has no vital signs. Quinn learns that the rest of his squad is dead. Suddenly feeling a pain in his right arm, Quinn grabs a scalpel and cut it open. Gushing out of the wound is green blood and a strange scorpion, which he crushes. The incision then rapidly heals. Quinn and Flutie relate their findings to Dr. Boyce, who keeps Quinn quarantined. Quinn, determined to find out what happened to himself and his squad, resists her directives. Boyce fails to sedate Quinn, and finds that he now possesses superhuman strength. She eventually reveals that another members of his squad, Sergeant Cruz, is in the morgue scheduled for cremation, and the other bodies were being taken elsewhere. Quinn demands to see Cruz, and Boyce takes him to Dr. Langdon's office, where they learn that Cruz is missing. The three tracks Cruz to the kitchen, where he is attacking the cook, Judson. As they try to intervene, Cruz infects Boyce and Langdon, forcing Quinn and Judson to destroy all three. Quinn begins feeling intense hunger that can only be dulled by ingesting raw, red meat. Quinn and Judson are then taken into custody by Major Bascom, who refuses to believe Quinn's story.
Quinn and Judson escape, determined to track down the remaining squad-members. They locate the truck used to transport the bodies, but find it wrecked and covered in blood. While following the trail, they stop at a small road-side bar, where they meet Holly, a part-time bartender. The local news has already aired a report about the killings at Fort Preston, labeling Quinn and Judson suspects. The bar patrons lock them inside the cooler. Afterwards, Quinn's infected squadmates attack the bar and infect the patrons. Holly free the two soldiers, and the three fight their way out. They hijack a police vehicle (having arrived to arrest Quinn and Judson) and drive away. Quinn realizes that one member of his squad, Bill Sanderson, hasn't shown up. After changing their clothes, the trio go to his house in Los Angeles. At the house, Quinn is stricken by another wave of hunger and eats some food from the fridge. The neighbor next door, Mrs. Wisteria, enters the house. They learn from her that Sanderson was taken to a funeral home. She then drives them to the place, but the funeral director tells them the body had already been claimed the previous evening. Frustrated, the group prepares to leave, but a van pulls up and the occupants stop them at gunpoint.
Their captors are mercenaries hired by a Dr. Scott and his partner Dr. Adams. In their lab, Quinn sees Sanderson chained up. Scott reveals that he learned of the "jindu", the Cambodian scorpion-like creatures and how their venom can revive dead tissues. He plans to use it for profit, and to cure his own cancer. Scott brings Mrs. Wisteria closer to Sanderson, who bites her and she soon transforms into a zombie. Scott confirms that the "second-generation" zombies are mindless killers. Only those stung by the jindu can retain their personalities, as long as the creature does not reach their hearts. A mercenary kills Wisteria, and an enraged Quinn kills Sanderson before being knocked out.
When Quinn awakens, Scott and Adams prepare to leave for Fort Preston. They lock him up with Holly and take Judson with them. Quinn, overcome by hunger, attacks Holly. He leaps at her and misses, shattering the two-way mirror that leads into Adams' lab. Inside, he finds a mini-fridge, devours the raw meat inside and comes back to his senses. Scott's group reaches Fort Preston, now overrun with zombies (presumably from a body of the first squad's member). Scott plans to capture this zombie and acquire the jindu inside. They fight their way in, unaware that Quinn and Holly have caught up with them. Scott takes Judson's security keycard and leaves him to the zombies. They enter the morgue containing the original zombie, and lock themselves inside while a mass of undead hammer at the door. Scott cuts into the zombie's chest. As he extracts the jindu, the zombies breaks down the morgue's door. The two mercenaries with Scott are killed and Adams is wounded. As Quinn and Holly burst inside the morgue, Scott drops the jindu and Quinn crushes it. Two zombie soldiers rip off Scott's arms before Quinn and Holly shoot them down. After killing all the zombies in the morgue, Holly shoots Adams before she transforms. Quin and Holly then leave.
Outside, they find that Judson is still alive by hiding in a trash chute. Quinn takes explosives from the armory, and set it up near the ammunition storage to destroy the entire base. As Quinn looks for an escape vehicle, Judson and Holly lure the zombie to approach the ammunition storage. They narrowly escape as the base goes up in flames. After making sure no zombies survive, they walk away together.

Tags: violence

Review:
One thing I've always liked about Sci-Fi channel is their fun movies they like to produce themselves.
Army Lt. Bobby Quinn (Dean Cain) and his platoon are assigned to a special trip to Cambodia to find out why a secret scientific lab stopped sending communications to the United States, and upon arriving at the secret lab, they are confronted with dead soldiers and scientists who are zombies infected by a mysterious mutated species of insects that the lab was working on.
Although Lt. Cain was bitten and infected and died like his platoon, for some reason, he doesn't completely die and turn into a flesh eating monster like the other soldiers.
Seems that he has something in his blood that limits his zombie traits although he does take on some of the characteristics of the zombies like needing to eat raw meat.
He is told that he has to stay on the compound but Cain's platoon, now flesh eating zombies, start waking up and killing the military and scientific staff at the compound.
During the confusion Lt. Cain escapes the military compound with the help of his new friend, army cook Hieronymous Judson (Guy Torry) who, by the way is very comedic.
Judson, Cain's new sidekick, is very funny and provides plenty of comic relief throughout the movie.
In a bar where Cain and Judson stop for a bite to eat (ha ha) he meets a saucy bartender named Holly (Susan Ward), a beautiful but independent heroine that is typical modern American woman: she can beat you up while looking beautiful.
When Cain is caught by local authorities to take him back to the military compound where he's accused of murder, Holly steps in and rescues him, and gets caught up in the crusade after she sees friends at the bar die at the hand of hungry munching zombies.
As these three go from location to location looking to destroy the source of the infections, and kill zombies, they encounter bad guys and plenty of hungry zombies who love a good fight.
There's lots of humor and flirting going on between Cain and Holly, and lots of good fun and cheesy zombie effects.
So people, when you watch a Sci-Fi movie like this, be glad that they choose to carry on the great tradition of weekend horror movies that provide light entertainment and enjoy them for what they are: fun times and some good scares and laughs.
Back to topic: this film is for a TV-Production well done and if you are not the one, who aspects million dollars special-effects, but some that are compared to other zombie films very well done, it will be fun to you.
Like i just wrote i just finished the film and during writing this i smile all the time for the gags that pass my mind.
Dean Cain added some humor.Not wanting to give away the plot let's just say this is the standard comedy with zombiesque "movie of the week" qualities.Mad scientist, Army men(Douglas Tait,) hot babes(Susan Ward,) One black Eddie Murphy type character(Guy Torry,)etc.
Even though the formula was stale "Dead and Deader" is better than some of SF-C's movies.
Good movie with graphic violence which tends to keep people watching whether they want to admit it or not.
Caine always has something cocky to say after achieving something further in the story like killing a zombie.
It surely doesn't compare to Dawn Of The Dead or like 28 days later, but it's still worth the watch.
One thing I found interesting was they never used a whole load of CGI graphics like most TV movies do(excessively).
I gave this movie a 8/10 just cuz they show it on scifi and kept a lot of the bloody scenes in...most of the time...well if you've ever seen a horror movie on A&E for example or late at night on TBS...you know what i mean.
But the special effects aren't amazing...but they are great for a low budget movie.
I didn't even know she was in it...but i'd recommend seeing this cuz its just fun for being on a scifi and not the big screen...heck i'm gonna buy it on DVD if i can find it :) p.s. not everything in movies has to make sense to be enjoyable...sometimes its just gotta be fun to watch!.
Although this film takes a slight turn: a few of the infected have black blood; I guess the evil scientist and his scorpion minions had a hand in that.
Bobby Quint (Dean Cain), the most human of the team, decides to stop the rest of the soldiers before they infect the whole world with their zombie illness.There should be some discussion about what this film is, and what it isn't.
While the film is funny to a point (or at least it doesn't take itself seriously), Fangoria's assertion it's a "zom-edy" like "48 Hours" is overstating this more than just a little.
I enjoyed this film, but certainly didn't think it was really laugh-out-loud funny (for that, rent "Shaun of the Dead").What this isn't is a high budget film with professional quality.
and considering it is made by a first time director, I was quite impressed with what they accomplished (calling in an all-star cast and Greg Nicotero for makeup was a good idea).Also, this probably isn't a film for the general public.
They might enjoy it, but I will say this: my number one reason for liking this film (besides the sexy Susan Ward) was the constant barrage of references to other films ("Dawn of the Dead", various James Bond films, "Bullet", etc.).
The rip on Michael Bay was the bait for me, and the hook came with the lengthy analysis of "Dawn of the Dead" versus the remake (which correctly, in my opinion, pointed out the key differences including the consumerism aspect and Ken Foree's role in both films).Much of the plot doesn't really make sense if you think about it and plot holes are more common here than one might like (and we are left with questions such as the sexual ability of zombies).
Dead and Deader is about some insects that infect humans who then become flesh eating zombies.
I expected the film to be a real bomb, but it wasn't too bad for a cheap TV movie.
His friends seem to have come off worse, waking up as more traditional people chomping zombies.At first the situation seems quite interesting and you go along with it but the crappy Pulp Fiction style popular culture chats about movies and suchlike between the main character and the black sidekick quickly get very tedious.I've got to give it a four out of fairness because it's watchable, but I didn't find it funny or really that interesting after the first half hour.
Most people seem to have liked this one but I think that says more about the ever decreasing expectations of the audience than the quality of this movie.
Quinn replies, "I don't HAVE heat vision." (obvious reference to Lois & Clark, where Cain played Superman) Pretty good movie to entertain you for a few hours, just don't expect the grand settings and effects that come with a big budget zombie flick.
It's a good laugh movie for people who like dumb zombie flicks.
Ill keep it simple this film should have been good, the idea was great it really makes me want to see a live action Deadman film (comic book character) but the big problems with the film are awful support actors awful script really really bad direction bad make up and Ha!
Special effects, seriously I've seen better in the hammer horror films.
must say though i kind of enjoyed it, its one of those few films thats so bad its good and it really is good its fun like a blow job ya can just sit down and enjoy it non of that thinking or doing any work just enjoying it and it'll keep ya happy until Romero or who ever does another good big budget zombie flick.
Dead and deader was a bit of fresh air to me, finally i saw a recent low budget zombie movie that was decent even though it was a made for TV movie.
The story was fairly good, not that believable but hey this was a sci-fi horror movie so it didn't need to be.
At least quite a few zombies deaths that made me say "cool" a few times and some great characterisations from Dean Cain, Guy Torry and Susan Ward.
Guy Torry's character the army chef Judson had me in stitches, he would have rather faced off against Gordon Ramsey than be in that army kitchen.There were a few good quotes and even a dawn of the dead eulogy comparing the original to the remake during one of the fights which i thought was cool.
Kinder like From Dusk till Dawn, Dead and Deader starts off as an action movie then turns into a zombie horror.
Having grown up with the lighter side of the zombie horror genre finding this film while channel hoping was fantastic!
A very slight twist on the regular zombie flick (scorpians feature in a random way) there is plenty of green gore, explosions and cheesy one liners.
While I'm not sure I really needed to see a slightly less buff then I remember Dean Cain's man boobs this was an incredibly enjoyable film.
I liked that the zombie infection was mixed up with Cambodian scorpions called "Jindoo" (great name).No matter how disgusting and threatening the surroundings, that fine triumvirate of Bobby, Judson, and Holly actually seem to be enjoying themselves more than they are terrified of the experience.
I thought the straight-to-TV enterprise "Dead and Deader" did a good job making these elements gel in something that was outrageous in the thrills with moments of grisly gore, but also amusing in its gags.
The snappy script really did like to play up trivial movie references (where it even takes a dig at film-maker Michael Bay) and acknowledge its influences, thanks mainly to Susan Ward's stunning looking film geek character.
Along for the on-the-run, buddy formula is Dean Cain (who's quite likable) as a walking dead solider and Guy Torry as the token smart talking army cook as they race against time to stop a zombie plague which could wipe out the entire nation.
From that line of the movie,you're probably guessing that there's plenty of humor in this movie.Well,you're right.But there's more comedy and action than horror in 'Dead & Deader'.
In fact,it isn't scary or suspenseful.But that doesn't mean that this movie doesn't deliver.This movie movie definitely delivers,and in this case,it delivers buckets of gore and entertainment that almost reaches 'Dawn of the Dead'.We should all give Dean Cain a big round of applause,because if he wasn't in this movie,then it wouldn't be as good as I'm describing it right now.So there's good news for all of you people who enjoy extremely gory and funny mayhem that make a movie as good as 'Dead & Deader'..
Much to my delight I found it for £3 online so I happily added it to my zombie collection.The story revolves around Dean Cain who is dead, a zombie but not quite the evil kind unless he gets hungry (good idea to carry a bag of steaks around in his presence).
He wants to get to the bottom of why he's dead yet alive.There are some incredibly silly parts including the fact Dean Cain heals instantly every time he is hurt.
If you want a lighthearted look at the living dead with some nice green splatter special effects and Dean Cain flashing his man-boobs then this is exactly what you need.A slightly above average 6 out of 10..
I enjoy zombie flicks as much as the next person, and cheesy special effects are always good for a laugh, but this vehicle did not use those elements to good effect.
Obviously a parody of other zombie films (with dialog comparing the original "Night of the Living Dead" with the remake), it brings nothing new or funny to the genre.
Then proceed into the realms of utter nonsense?Yes the internet may be contributing to the demise of fine feature films but drivel like this being made and then being reviewed as "Great", "Excellent movie" and "Better than expected." can't be helping.
Films like this a lowering the quality bar.There will always be an audience for this type of terrible movie and they'll always claim:-"It's a great movie, best zombie flick ever" - What other zombie films have you seen exactly?"Ideal for Saturday night fun!" You really should get out more if you think Saturday night would be improved by this."Better than expected" That says it all, you thought it'd be a bad movie before you watched it.......so why did you watch it?
GUY TORRY RULES in this slightly unique Zombie Flick.
For a low budget "B" made for T.V. movie, it was the best zombie movie this year!What made this one slightly different than the others 1#)is that an ancient Cambodian scorpion infects humans thus turning them into flesh eating zombies.
2#) dean Cain's character was infected but he cuts out the Bug in time so the virus does not reach his heart,in-turn gives him extra abilities, but he is not a full blown zombie!
Susan ward(Malibu Shores & Shallow Hal) was surprisingly good in this movie as a tough bartender caught in the middle of this zombie mess resulting in her teaming up with dean and guy.But what makes this movie a 100x better than the others is Guy Torry!
Yes, by all means, let's add DEAD AND DEADER to that long list of tired, played-out, low budgeted zombie flicks.
A 2006 Sci-Fi Channel original movie (something the film shouldn't really take pride in), this one offers nothing new but still isn't all that bad as far as horror cinema goes.
The rest of the negligible plot involves Quinn, a wisecracking mess cook (Guy Torry), and a feisty bartender honey (Susan Ward) battling the undead as they strive to curtail the spreading zombie infection.There isn't one original note here, not one.
Surprisingly good little zombie film..
Dead & Deader starts 'Somewhere in Cambodia...' as a five man special ops team try to establish contact with a medical team, however things don't go according to plan & they are attacked by flesh eating zombies.
Elsewhere his special ops buddies also return to life but they come back as ravenous flesh eating zombies unlike Quinn who is relatively normal & considerably more sociable.
People have a hard time believing he is one of the walking dead & that a virus is being spread that turns the infected into flesh eating zombies, Quinn decides he has to go it alone & stop the ever growing zombie hordes...Originally made for cable TV & directed by Patrick Dinhut I was extremely surprised to discover that Dead & Deader is a highly entertaining light hearted comedy horror that delivers on both counts.
There are also lots of self referential dialogue & some really amusing references to other films, I loved the discussion Quinn has with Holly where they debate which version of Dawn of the Dead is better & Holly's passioned speech about why the original is!
Having said that I was impressed, I mean when I knew this was had been made for cable & starred Dead Cain who would probably attend the opening of an envelope for money these days I feared the worse but maybe it's because I had such low expectations that I liked it so much?Director Dinhut does OK, he keeps things moving along & the action scenes are pretty well handled.
There's some gore including a hand in a mincer, various gunshot wounds, someone head is sliced in a ceiling fan, there are bitten throats, decapitation by meat cleaver, there a few zombie scenes where they feast upon various severed limbs & a decent amount of blood splattered around the place.Technically the film is pretty good, it certainly looks a lot better than a lot of cheap made for cable offerings.
The acting is good, Susan Ward makes for good eye candy for the boys & Cain will provide the same for the girls.Dead & Deader far exceeded my expectations which were admittedly none existent, I really liked this humorous fun little zombie film & would definitely recommend it if not for the fact there are already plenty of reviews that totally slate it so maybe I'm in the minority when I reckon it's a great film.
"Dead and Deader" is one of more fun zombie entries out there.**SPOILERS**After a mission in Cambodia, Lt. Bobby Quinn, (Dean Cain) arrives back in the US pronounced dead, though he is still alive.
After learning that he became infected through a mythical Cambodian scorpion that turns it's victims into flesh-eating zombies, they race to stop it before it gets out and infects others around them.The Good News: This was one of the most impressive zombie films around.
Among the better features from that is the film is incredibly action-packed, having a ton of it here that is just fun to watch on any level.
What's even better about it is that, along with the rest of the film, there's some really nice humor in this.
Overall, these were the film's good points.The Bad News: There wasn't much wrong here.
These, though, are the film's only flaws.The Final Verdict: An incredibly impressive zombie film that has a lot going for it and only marginal flaws, giving this one a really great feel and appearance.
Definitely give it a watch if you're into the genre at all, a fan of the Sci-Fi Channel Creature Features or the plain interested, otherwise there's not a whole lot who won't like it.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
Bobby Quin(Dean Caine)is a Special Forces soldier who dies in a secret mission in Cambodia.