As soon as I started watching Raiders of the Damned (2007) I noted a newly-learned familiar stink. YEP … this film gets rated Red Blood and is on the BagpiperDon’s Zombie Films To Avoid.
This should be an ideal film for me — containing both zombies and Sci-Fi — but this is made by a garbage movie company called The Asylum, which LARGELY JUST RIPS OFF OTHER FILMS. Once you’ve accidentally seen a few Asylum films, you get familiar with their stink.
Garbage, Garbage, Garbage…
The zombie costumes and weapons are laughable, and their make-up is just plain bad. The lacking story line is only outdone by the dribbling charactre development — and posturing of hokey military badassedness. The description sounds like it should have something, but it just isn’t there.
When all is said and done, this film too will make no careers of its unknown actors who either can’t act or lack worthy direction, nor will this film win an Oscar … hell, it might be so bad it wouldn’t even win acknowledgement from The Razzies.
Even when it’s bad Z/B-film, for the sake of these reviews and my project I tend to finish a flick even if I am not directly watching it, but I shut this one off 20 minutes in — the people who want to see something that will make SyFy Channel films look good can have the additional 67 minutes.
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- BagpiperDon’s Zombie Films To Avoid
- IMDb
- Rotten Tomatoes
- The Razzies