FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (2007)

Title: Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane

Director: Scott Thomas
Cast: Richard Tyson, David Chisum, Erick Avari
Length: 71 mins.






The last 10 years have seen the return of the horror film in ways not seen since the mania of the 80s slasher flicks. For horror fans, this is great but it can also result in some sad consequences. For every 28 Days Later (2002) and Ichi the Killer (2001), there is something out there like Zombiez (2005) or Dead and Breakfast (2004). It was the same back in the 90s when disaster movies were all the rage and you'd get Volcano (1997) and Dante's Peak (1997) or Deep Impact (1998) and Armegeddon (1998) all at the same time. Once something's hot, you can bet your pretty pennies that Hollywood will shove it at us until we refuse to swallow it any more.
So, it's a good time to be a horror fan, but watch out for the crap. When I first saw the ad for this one, I thought it was going to be garbage. Pale imitation of Snakes on a Plane with zombies in lieu of snakes. And it is. But it's not crap.
I won't bother getting into the argument of what constitutes a true zombie here. I have my opinions on it and suffice it to say, Romero is King. I can deal with fast, plague-driven zombies so long as they're accompanied by a good script. Flight of the Living Dead has that, with a good cast made up of unknown faces and a few that you'll recognize but won't be certain where you remember them from. Remember the bad guy in Kindergarten Cop? Yeah, he's here. So is the dead(?) professor from Heroes.
I know what you're thinking. How can they make a flick over an hour long with rampaging zombies on a plane? Let's just say that they did and it works. Flight of the Living Dead is a very good addition to any zombie fan's collection. Some will have a beef with the logistics of shooting off automatic weapons in a pressurized cabin dozen of miles up in the sky but you know what, it's a movie about reanimated corpses. Pick your battles, huh?